Here's the story of another 15 year old who died while exercising on a hot day. But there's no vaccination angle so obviously no one is going to talk about it.
When I left my job as a Paulding Public Defender, I wrote a post on the defense attorney list-serv looking for a replacement, saying that Dick Donovan, the previous DA, was incompetent and you'd win a bunch of cases.
Turns out he had honorary access to the list-serv. /1
My now former boss was calling and yelling at me to apologize, trying to smooth all this over. It struck me as a bit of an overreaction, but I had to talk to my boss at my new job about it when I joined.
/2
Dick Donovan has since been placed on leave for lying about sexually harassing an employee, requiring a $300,000 payment from the county.
The CRT debate reminds me so much of growing up in Cobb County, Georgia, where our biology textbooks had stickers on them saying that evolution was "just a theory."
Of course, we simply skipped the chapter on evolution altogether.
But I absolutely loved this book, and Stephen Jay Gould, and a teacher let me give a presentation on all the ways we know the age of the earth when I was around 15.
It felt so rebellious sneaking it past the censors.
Millions of people marched for Black Lives matter. More than 90% of those protests were completely peaceful, even if you include violence initiated by police in the face of criticism.
But you told a bunch of people to come to DC and prevent the count of the votes for Biden.
And when the President told those people to march, they did. Some of them were armed. They broke a bunch of windows and assaulted some police officers and threatened to kill a bunch of folks.
Most of them are getting probation or short jail sentences.
Here's Thomas Massie talking about Trump's speech the day after: