All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.--Oscar Wilde
Crazy Penguin game last night.
Meltdowngate. Both political sides accuse each other of a meltdown in the White House conference. This is months after they accused each other of conspiring with the Russians, then each other of doing something with the Ukrainians. The Press is obviously ok with this but one wonders how much of this the public can take.
Rainè Riggs, a neuropsychologist and daughter-in-law of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, died on Saturday — two days after receiving a cancer diagnosis, according to an obituary shared online by Lee & Martin Funeral Home in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. According to the obituary, the mom of three had fallen ill three weeks before her death but doctors had been “stumped” as to what was wrong with her.
She was eventually diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Riggs served as the director of behavioral medicine at Dartmouth Medical School for several years and started the Palliative Care Department for Dartmouth Medical Center, the obituary said. She also owned Riggs Geriatric Psychology in Windsor, Vermont, and spent time volunteering with homeless veterans, pediatric hospice and at ground zero in the aftermath of 9/11.
I manage the internet poorly and this was very hard to find. But, while not profound, it is a very solid presentation of the relationship between man, law and government. Well worth the watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnCXNydQs5A
European Union and U.K. negotiators agreed on a draft of a new Brexit deal, clearing a major hurdle to Britain’s exit from the bloc and setting up a crucial vote in the U.K. Parliament. The British pound spiked.
The California Department of Education has proposed an ethnic studies curriculum. The curriculum would teach children that capitalism and father figures are racist. The Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum also includes gross anti-Israel bias and teaches about a Palestinian-led anti-Israel initiative called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. The curriculum also has students study issues of police brutality and asks teachers to find incidents of bias by police in their own communities. According to an article by Shelby Talcott in The Stream, California's proposed curriculum called for students to study lawmakers such as Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, both of whom have supported the BDS movement and have been accused of anti-Semitic rhetoric.
The suicide rate among people ages 10 to 24 years old climbed 56% between 2007 and 2017, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate of homicide deaths decreased by 23% from 2007 to 2014 but then increased by 18% through 2017.
American boxer Patrick Day died on Wednesday in Chicago as a result of the traumatic brain injury he suffered during his fight on Saturday, where he was knocked out by Charles Conwell in the 10th round.
British general and playwright John Burgoyne surrendered 5,000 British and Hessian troops to American General Horatio Gates at Saratoga, New York, on October 17, 1777. On September 19, a British advance column marched out and engaged the Patriot force at the Battle of Freeman’s Farm, or the First Battle of Saratoga. Failing to break through the American lines, Burgoyne’s force retreated. On October 7, another British reconnaissance force was repulsed by an American force under General Benedict Arnold in the Battle of Bemis Heights, also known as the Second Battle of Saratoga. Soon after, word of the Patriot victory at Saratoga reached France, King Louis XVI agreed to recognize the independence of the United States and French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, Count de Vergennes, made arrangements with U.S. Ambassador Benjamin Franklin to begin providing formal French aid to the Patriot cause. This assistance was crucial to the eventual American victory in the Revolutionary War.
Laborious Writing
American University hired a professor to teach other professors to grade students based on their "labor" rather than their writing ability. The professor that American University hired to teach that nonsense is Asao B. Inoue, who is a professor and associate dean in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He is also the director of the university's writing center. Inoue believes that a person's writing ability should not be assessed, in order to promote "anti-racist" objectives. Inoue taught American University's faculty members that their previous practices of grading writing promoted white language supremacy. Inoue thinks that students should be graded on the effort they put into a project.
It's an old Marxist idea that the value of something is determined by its labor input rather than its quality or how it is valued by a consumer. One wonders how they would compare the value of a play written easily by the fluid genius of Marlow with a play tortured into existence by a limited hack. While the old value take is shopworn, the racial slant is a bright new shiny lunacy.
These people will just never stop. Under normal circumstances, they would be tuned out--like parents do unruly children--but the Press will not allow this. The parents may well get battle fatigue.
Crazy Penguin game last night.
Meltdowngate. Both political sides accuse each other of a meltdown in the White House conference. This is months after they accused each other of conspiring with the Russians, then each other of doing something with the Ukrainians. The Press is obviously ok with this but one wonders how much of this the public can take.
Rainè Riggs, a neuropsychologist and daughter-in-law of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, died on Saturday — two days after receiving a cancer diagnosis, according to an obituary shared online by Lee & Martin Funeral Home in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. According to the obituary, the mom of three had fallen ill three weeks before her death but doctors had been “stumped” as to what was wrong with her.
She was eventually diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Riggs served as the director of behavioral medicine at Dartmouth Medical School for several years and started the Palliative Care Department for Dartmouth Medical Center, the obituary said. She also owned Riggs Geriatric Psychology in Windsor, Vermont, and spent time volunteering with homeless veterans, pediatric hospice and at ground zero in the aftermath of 9/11.
I manage the internet poorly and this was very hard to find. But, while not profound, it is a very solid presentation of the relationship between man, law and government. Well worth the watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnCXNydQs5A
European Union and U.K. negotiators agreed on a draft of a new Brexit deal, clearing a major hurdle to Britain’s exit from the bloc and setting up a crucial vote in the U.K. Parliament. The British pound spiked.
The California Department of Education has proposed an ethnic studies curriculum. The curriculum would teach children that capitalism and father figures are racist. The Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum also includes gross anti-Israel bias and teaches about a Palestinian-led anti-Israel initiative called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. The curriculum also has students study issues of police brutality and asks teachers to find incidents of bias by police in their own communities. According to an article by Shelby Talcott in The Stream, California's proposed curriculum called for students to study lawmakers such as Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, both of whom have supported the BDS movement and have been accused of anti-Semitic rhetoric.
The suicide rate among people ages 10 to 24 years old climbed 56% between 2007 and 2017, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The rate of homicide deaths decreased by 23% from 2007 to 2014 but then increased by 18% through 2017.
American boxer Patrick Day died on Wednesday in Chicago as a result of the traumatic brain injury he suffered during his fight on Saturday, where he was knocked out by Charles Conwell in the 10th round.
British general and playwright John Burgoyne surrendered 5,000 British and Hessian troops to American General Horatio Gates at Saratoga, New York, on October 17, 1777. On September 19, a British advance column marched out and engaged the Patriot force at the Battle of Freeman’s Farm, or the First Battle of Saratoga. Failing to break through the American lines, Burgoyne’s force retreated. On October 7, another British reconnaissance force was repulsed by an American force under General Benedict Arnold in the Battle of Bemis Heights, also known as the Second Battle of Saratoga. Soon after, word of the Patriot victory at Saratoga reached France, King Louis XVI agreed to recognize the independence of the United States and French Foreign Minister Charles Gravier, Count de Vergennes, made arrangements with U.S. Ambassador Benjamin Franklin to begin providing formal French aid to the Patriot cause. This assistance was crucial to the eventual American victory in the Revolutionary War.
Laborious Writing
American University hired a professor to teach other professors to grade students based on their "labor" rather than their writing ability. The professor that American University hired to teach that nonsense is Asao B. Inoue, who is a professor and associate dean in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He is also the director of the university's writing center. Inoue believes that a person's writing ability should not be assessed, in order to promote "anti-racist" objectives. Inoue taught American University's faculty members that their previous practices of grading writing promoted white language supremacy. Inoue thinks that students should be graded on the effort they put into a project.
It's an old Marxist idea that the value of something is determined by its labor input rather than its quality or how it is valued by a consumer. One wonders how they would compare the value of a play written easily by the fluid genius of Marlow with a play tortured into existence by a limited hack. While the old value take is shopworn, the racial slant is a bright new shiny lunacy.
These people will just never stop. Under normal circumstances, they would be tuned out--like parents do unruly children--but the Press will not allow this. The parents may well get battle fatigue.
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