George and May Belle Lilywhite are concerned about minorities.



Bless you George and May Belle Lilywhite! You are so considerate!

I wonder why that is.

First, some background. In this particular class is a row of three students from Africa. One is from Uganda. Another is from Cote d'Ivoire, and the last is from Togo.

After class this morning, I was outside the building talking to my student from Togo when the Ugandan student raced up and began ranting. First he wanted to know why American schools didn't make students wear uniforms. I told him that a few did but not all. He said that, in Uganda, all students had to wear school uniforms and cut their hair a certain way or they wouldn't be allowed in the school. "It makes them learn how to dress properly," he stated with the conviction of a curmudgeonly old man making observations about "today's kids". Next my student ranted about how Americans spoke English. "What is with you guys saying 'I'm gunna' or 'I wanna'; how do you even spell that?" He made it very clear that, in Uganda, everyone grows up speaking proper British English, not like in American where everyone is lazy and doesn't enunciate each word correctly. The student from Togo proceeded to tell a joke about the complexity of English in America. They both laughed at how seemingly uncultured Americans are.

All I could think of during this was "This is 'MURICA", speak English", and "shithole countries". Did I ever mention that I love teaching at this community college where the population is extremely diverse and everyone feels free to speak their minds?

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/990428993542414336

NYT would be much better off without her.

Just googled it, and nothing came up besides something from yesterday about a protest against LGBT.

My community college observed yesterday. We had a big rainbow flag flying from the student center. There were all sorts of activities. The put out buttons with different flags representing different subsets of the community (that was highly informative for me).

But, unless I missed it, no stories have been posted here about DOS. What gives?

Probably on paper napkins found in a shoe box buried somewhere near MSNBC headquarters.

These smears are continuing, and we keep falling for them. First Franken. Now Joy. Next Rachel. No, I haven't forgotten about the others (eg. David Hogg makes a Nazi salute). These are nothing more than RW memes of the day meant to sow doubt and confusion and destroy our greatest liberal voices.

So Rachel....
Don't believe it will happen? Just wait a couple months.

If you don't see what is happening, if the series of events don't fit together like well worn pieces of a puzzle, it is time to wake up!

Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/22/waffle-house-suspect-travis-reinking-sovereign-citizen/540543002/



This guy is completely bonkers!

Why does that term "sovereign citizen" keep popping up with these people?

Seriously, they loved Russia for installing tRump. Now we attack Syria, which is an affront to Russia. This is beginning to seem strangely like "Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia".

Will this woman remember her sign?

This came up the other day. I know well enough that it is a fallacy, put I'm having difficulty nailing down the exact name of the fallacy.

Here goes:

George likes cats.
Cats are animals.
Therefore, George must like all animals.

It seems like generalization, but examples I've been looking at don't quite match up.

I found these vids on Youtube last night and became instantly addicted to them. There are dozens of them. They test kids' knowledge of music history, covering the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s. I have to say that my own knowledge is lacking in some areas (luckily, my wife knows it all). Here is a sample, but there are many, many more: