Admittedly, I haven't flown much in last year and a half. But couple behind me on this flight to Denver/LA are loudly fighting about visiting the other's families. Wife really hates husband's dad.
It's escalating.
I consider this a fringe benefit.
So, I just learned that wife behind me went to bed "super pissed" last night.. and he didn't know, because, she says, "he's desensitized" to the awfulness of his father.
Ok, I'm done, she says...
But I have to stow my computer and bring my seat back up and stow my tray table.
Landed, and I have to say it’s eerily quiet behind me.
Now I just gave to avoid making eye contact while getting my luggage from the over head… which may have shifted during flight.
So, this gets better…
It wasn’t just me.
As we left plane couple across me says, We’ll at least we had great entertainment…
They actually turned off the movie they were watching…
Guy says, I didn’t really know what was happening back there until she started punching him.
I missed this.
But I suspect alcohol may possibly have been involved.
The punching may have had something to do with eerie silence before landing….
But at least they kept their masks on. There’s always that.
Bracing myself now for flight to LA. This also now involves alcohol.
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“When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Lev. 19:33-34).
2 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
2. "Here is a simple narrative that makes great intuitive sense: 'If you get vaccinated you have a small chance of catching COVID and virtually a nil chance of being hospitalized and dying, meaning life can go back to normal and you can stop wearing masks.'
3. "Here is a description of the message actually coming out of the CDC: “Everyone should get vaccinated because that will stop you from getting a serious case of the disease, and some vaccinated people who live in some areas can stop wearing masks... "
"These are more than scattered anecdotes, and *do seem to indicate a trend* — at least in a certain strata of schools."
But then I asked a question (which Andrew has not answered):
"But how widespread is this sort of thing in less elite, posh, rarefied precincts?"
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I agreed that "No school kid in this country should be coerced into confessing mortal sin because of their skin color."
But then asked: How often is this happening around the country?
Contra Cruz: I'm not defending CRT; I've been writing about critical theory for more than 30 years. (Read the piece).
The problem is using the blunt force of legislation to deal with a "theory."
FYI: Flashback. Me in 1990 -->
"A Republican congressman from Wisconsin introduced legislation this week that would ban D.C. schools from teaching critical race theory — the academic framework that examines the way policies and laws perpetuate systemic racism." washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
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If we are banning this sort of thing, why stop there? If CRT derives from Marxism, why not ban Marxism too? (Or would that smack too obviously of censorship, cancel culture, and the attack on free speech?)
2. If critical race theory is beyond the pale, where are the bills banning or restricting all of the other criticals, like critical social theory, critical legal theory, (or anything developed by the Frankfurt School.)
3. If conservatives really want to take on political correctness in education, why not also ban post-modernism, deconstructionism, moral relativism, and anything written by Jacques Derrida?