Children can learn and improve.

Up here in Maine, we suffered through 8 years of LePage (aka Practice Trump) because the damn Democrats couldn’t get their shit together and run one candidate against him. LePage never had a majority of the vote. He came to power with 37% and got re-elected with 48%. Most people here hated LePage, but they couldn’t…

I feel entirely comfortable blaming this entire pandemic on mass IPA consumption. It was never meant for human consumption. It’s evil in a can, people! I don’t drink IPAs and have never contracted COVID. I believe the science will validate my theory.

Psychologists might argue that he’s already spent a long life in prison—a prison of his joyless mind. No cell will ever make him suffer more than the psychic cage Fred built for him.

DeVos is doing EXACTLY the job she was hired to do. I’d say she’s the Godzilla of the American education system, but even Godzilla occasionally stumbled into being a hero.

Keep the original concept of 20 years in the past. Set it starting the first week of school September 2001. Call it “The W Years.”

Oh my, Will. I swear that smile has given me the vapors.

It’s like the Velvet Underground of hotspots: Not many people attended, but everyone who did got COVID.

Laughing through tears because we live in such stupid times that my post was entirely believable.

Obviously some stories (white stories) have been told with more frequency, but at this point the 60s has been exhaustively examined, reexamined, and catalogued. We get it. The world changed a lot in a few years. But history didn’t begin with Kennedy and end with the fall of Saigon. The same seismic shift happened…

They’re just setting the stage for their triumphant rebrand as Lady Reconstruction.

I was in an all-white hardcore band called Gaschamber for 10 years. We played tons of shows and had lots of fans, but we could never figure out why everyone in the audience was bald and had Nazi tattoos. Our most popular song was called “Third Riker”—it was about a transporter accident on Star Trek, but those bald…

Please not the 60s again. Every possible story about the 60s has been told. The original show (1988) was a reflective look back at 20 years earlier (1968) and the juxtaposition of childhood innocence, coming of age, and a tumultuous time in US history. So set the new show (2021) in 2001. Episode 1 is the first week of…

I really don’t think they’re going to wait that long. They’re going to blame the lame duck period on their entire inability to address any problems. And that will start on 11/4.

I worked at a publisher who put out “Winning” by Jack Welch. Every current employee got a copy, as well as new hires for about a year after its release date. We had to keep it somewhere near our desks in case he popped in and decide to walk the floor. I think we were expected to read it, but I don’t know anyone I…

It’s like when an old boss of mine who knew I didn’t give a shit about my job gave me a copy of a book called “Don’t Just Do What I Tell You. Do What Needs to Be Done!: Every Employees Guide to Making Work More Rewarding.” He knew I wasn’t going to read it (and I didn’t). He just gave it to me because he felt…

Actually, I missed a word at the very beginning. Should read “Why do you need teachers...”

Despite the rallies and campaign, I’m really starting to think that he knows it’s so far beyond anything he can fix that he thinks he just has to make it to November and then it’s someone else’s problem.

Why do you teachers if you already have the best brain, a tremendous brain, with incredible thoughts and, uh, words, words like you’ve never seen before (that’s what they say) just really fantastic?

You’re probably right: 1945, Founding of the United Nations. I was thinking 1947 because of the Truman Doctrine kicking off the Cold War. We definitely acted like PART of the world leadership before then, but that’s the point where we basically declared “This is the American Century now. We run this bitch. Get on…