A sudden reality thunderstruck me this morning when I was on the telephone with an old friend in education from Fresno.
Lightning zapped me because my friend, an administrator for 27 years in the Central Valley, mentioned it:
Administrators who assess, and in 100 percent of cases confer lifetime employment on inexperienced young teachers, have as little protection as a pockmarked stockboy at a market who shows up for work every time he is in the mood.
Does anyone in Newspaperland find that goose-pimply ironic?
When You Fear That Convicted Killers (Horrors) May Die
Of the 17 topical distractions from serious news that the White House creatively has introduced since last January – think minimum wage, think sexism, think income gap, think student loans — opposition to the death penalty is the easiest to counter. What is complicated or morally troubling about executing a convicted killer, about punishing with finality a raging person who has harshly snuffed out the life – in many cases – of a rival?
Diane, Jack Kennedy and I
Dateline Boston – To sprinkle a soothing shower of restoratively needed normalcy drops over us yesterday afternoon, Diane suggested an outing to Boston Harbor and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. A Republican at the Kennedy Library?
City Hall Flexes Its Muscles and Goes After the Blind
I presume there are 65,000 blind persons among Culver City’s 45,000 residents. City Hall, always willing to give less fortunate types a break, fell face first into a puddle of odiferous mud this time. In a gesture seething with magnanimity, with one hand in the pocket of unfortunate wretches and the other over their mouths to suppress their giggles, the city plans to …
Classroom Equality: 4 Whites, 4 Blacks, 4 Hispanics, 4 Asians
Pompous Gary (Don’t Tilt Me) Orfield of UCLA is not my friend. Hopefully he never will be. A drive-by liberal racist, Mr. Orfield proudly leads expeditions in search of racism. If the facts won’t cooperate, his imagination will. How fitting that over Memorial Day weekend, when we honor our bravest heroes, this race-baiting academic shoves his sweaty self into the front row.
Raise Your Right Hand. No, That Is Your Left.
As normal Americans celebrate the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education this weekend, the official end of government-sanctioned segregation in schools, the permanently angry black and white socialists of the left — professional victims, all — kvetch with a straight face that segregation quietly, insidiously has returned. They offer no proof, just charges that are guaranteed to light up their fellow racists.
How the Titanic Blew It
Disingenuity was eliminated late last year from the Wartime Lexicon for Leftists when it was determined that only two American liberals could spell it, and 50 percent were unable to define the term. To illustrate:
Weather Thou Goest, Climate-You-Know-What Will Follow
Since the concept of “climate change” has gone through more different names than an old-fashioned woman married six times, a new tactic, born of necessity, was trotted out in the latest gospel released yesterday. Near-term disasters dominate the weather menu instead of futuristic ones. Ahh, I see.
A Cause for Jew-Haters to Jubilate. Jews Should Avoid Rialto
I am not sure which is more infuriating – The ludicrous assignment handed to eighth graders in the Rialto Unified School District, miles and days from civilization, or that the inattentive parents of the district have not yet filed a single protest.
Will Pastor Need City Manager’s Okay for His Sunday Sermons?
Who says stately old Pasadena is staid? Emboldened by the racially cartoonish behavior this week of the commissioner of professional basketball, Mikey Beck, the widely unknown, self-inflating City Manager of Pasadena, may have double deliberately OD’d on Viagra before his latest attempt to direct an infusion of attention to his needy self.