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Education – by Charlie Martin

Education – by Charlie Martin

I’ve been interested in education in the United States, really since I was embedded in the education system myself. I had good teachers and bad teachers, but if I were to summarize my whole experience in one word, it would be “stultifying.” I was suspiciously bright, loved to read, loved science, but was bored to tears by a lot of the content. I was reading adult books — my father, tired of being asked for science fiction books when I was about nine, handed m...

Extraordinary One Time Meme Post

*Oh, like YOU did anything useful yesterday! Sorry, guys, this is what my brain is up to today.- SAH*

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The Moment

And here we are, poised at the highest point of the roller-coaster, looking around. the view is clear, the air crisp, and we’re about to start on the ride of our life.

The stakes are high. We placed a bet. We don’t know where the wheel will stop spinning. There are factors we can’t be sure of, things we can’t know to consider. The unknown unknowns are massive.

Even if it all goes according to plan, and Trump signs all the EOs he promised on the first day, even if Doge points all the w...

Wheel of Memes!

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Incompetence or Malice?

With the fires in California, as often when dealing with government at all levels, there are rumors that they’re doing this according to some long held plan.

Yeah. They might be. I mean, some of the more tin-foiley versions require all sorts of machiavellianc work arounds, and are probably not true. OTOH the givens are that they really hate their constituents and that they view themselves as harbingers of the utopian future. Oh, yeah, and that they mostly think things repeat as in the sca...

The Fire Will Suffice, And It’s Enough

Like most people of my generation, I grew up reading stories of the end of the world. Actually maybe that’s true for kids of every generation.

Mike Williamson has a t-shirt that says something about an end of the world tour, and lists all the apocalypses we have escaped.

I don’t remember which ones he lists, and I know no matter how much I think about it, I’ll never get all of them.

However, off the top of my head and in no particular order, to get to sixty two, I’ve escaped nuclea...

The Banana Index

Ladies and gentlemen, by the one index that has proven reliable over my lifetime, socialism in the United States is receding. Not on the way out, precisely, but promising to go down instead of up. The index is a little forward-looking, you see.

What is this magical indicator? Well, the abundance and price of bananas.

No, wait, I haven’t completely lost my mind, and I do understand that it makes absolutely no sense, but–

The origin of this is a joke. Not a particularly wonderful jok...

Loving Yourself First

The other day, I was sitting here, innocently typettityping away, the way one does, while my husband watched something or other.

And then suddenly a phrase slotted into my brain and the years of being a teen girl told this reared up their ugly head, and I launched into a tirade.

The sentence was “You can’t love anyone else until you love each other.”

This was one of those things considered as an obvious given. Everyone knew this was true. In fact, it still surfaces in practically e...

The Counterculture

When I was in college I read “Counterculture comics” and counterculture magazines, mostly because I read everything, and they tended to be cheap or free or really free. (Really free is “Please take a copy of my comic. Please, please, please. I haven’t been able to give one away to random passersbys in weeks. Please take one, or I’ll cry.”)

Most of them weren’t particularly exciting. Look, guys, most of anything is not particularly exciting or particularly good.  Most cookery is not really...

And Then There Were Memes!

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