Sure, but things like Mothers Day and Labor Day originally didn’t start out as co-opted holidays. There was a genuine celebration there. But you could said EVERYTHING in America at this point is a commodity and commericialized bastardization of the original intent.

Hell, thats the American Dream in a nutshell I guess.

I also think, as part of the lesson of thanksgiving, we should note most countries have a thanksgiving, which is basically a harvest festival.

A huge part of America’s thanksgiving was the effort to give the new country a origin myth to rally around. It was a political effort more or less.

This would be a perfect segment on Hannity.

You saaaaaaaaaaaalty.

Guys, part of the American Dream is being in debt, barely above water and living off the scrapes of the rich.

So enjoy it ya ungrateful mooks.

I think I read some version of this at least once every 3 years. Nothin’ new under the sun indeed.

I’m just glad Devos is finally getting around to destroying Special Education slowly but surely.

YAY! Now the Democrats will double down on toothless centrism and we can all look forward to our choices in 2018 between 1980s Republicans and 2017 Republicans.

To be fair, teachers are human and can lose their cool and I know NOTHING of this dude. He was wrong to say what he did and clearly he should apologize and make amends. But he may very well be a great teacher and decent dude who lost his shit for a few minutes.
 
Part of the problem is that this isn’t really addressed…

Well I also think we should put the mangled bodies of the innocent we drone to death on front page newspapers.

Americans are too isolated from the consequences of our policies.

Usually when I’m upset a student is not living up to their potential, I find time to sit them down and have a frank talk about the choices they are making and outcomes that could come from that.

But ya, threatening murder helps too.

Damn you autocorrect and lack of proof reading.

Ya know the fuck what.

Maybe we should plaster billboards with the broken and bloody bodies of children shot daily. THIS IS WHAT A BULLET DOES TO A CHILD.

And contrary to what most Americans think, you don’t get shot and then die right away like in a movie. No you lay on the ground, bleed out over a period of time.…

Libertarian needs help.

News at 11.

IT’s also a gross simplification of how mental illness works. You are never cured but its a life long management and one slip up means you could go off the rails.

I had a student who was perfectly fine when he was properly medicated. The second he stopped taking his meds he would start hearing voices and become…

Well we’ve reached the point where we are no longer have mass shootings. Instead we have individual categories for mass shootings. Deadliest school shooting, deadliest church shooting, deadliest Walmart shooting....

Sucker.

I’m going back to school to major in crony capitalism and really make America work for me.

still more likely to be killed by a white man with a gun than a islamic terrorist in a truck.

Forget cancer, we need universal health care so no one goes broke from our many many shootings.

I mean thats the fucking problem, manufacturing and coal and what ever is declining due to market forces and automatication but what ever, lets cling to the old while the rest of the world moves on.

Frankly, I kinda feel like a Roman in the western empire around 350AD