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What are you secretly afraid of? What is hiding in the dark room of your psyche?
Look at the pictures and choose the one that rankles the most, the one that provokes an emotional response. And then look under the fold for a response.
You know it’s time to potty train when your child asks you to do it. No matter how intimidated you are by the process.
I had a huge fit of rage this morning. For the third time, I go to the office to print out my syllabi and I don’t manage to do it. First, the Dropbox didn’t work, then I couldn’t access the system, then the files were not the right ones. I can’t stand feeling incompetent and bumbling. And yes, I know why, I know all about the psychological roots of the rage but it doesn’t make the rage any less pleasant.
God, did I swear or what. I didn’t even know I had all this vocabulary in my head. I swear in Russian because English swearing is non-existent and Spanish swearing is just funny.
Rage makes me feel very disoriented and confused. And it’s over nothing. I still have a ton of time to print out the syllabi. Nothing, literally nothing makes me more enraged than something interfering with my plans.
Of course, I’m now at the bookstore because that’s my calming strategy.
Washington Post’s Dana Milbank noted soon after just how frequently Trump reflects on what he assumes others don’t know.
That Bill Clinton signed NAFTA: “A lot of people don’t know that.”
I never thought about who signed it before this election.
What a value-added tax is: “A lot of people don’t know what that means.”
I don’t know what it means.
That we have a trade deficit with Mexico: “People don’t know that.”
I didn’t know this before the election. Did you?
That Iraq has large oil reserves: “People don’t know this about Iraq.”
I vaguely heard something to the effect of “Bush went there for oil”, but that’s the extent of my knowledge on the subject.
That war is expensive: “People don’t realize it is a very, very expensive process.”
This I did know. Yay.
Whether he thinks “people” are incredibly uninformed, or whether he’s simply oblivious himself, will remain a subject of some debate.
I’m an incredibly uninformed people according to this supercilious twat. I’m at a coffee shop right now, and I’d bet good money most people here would fail this weird quiz.
And then the twats will wonder why people don’t vote for them or whomever they support. Yes, it’s a total mystery.
Folks, did you hear about the US diplomats in Cuba who lost their hearing as a result of a device that was deployed against them for this purpose?This was a small revenge to Obama for messing with somebody else’s client state.
Of course, the diplomats will have to bite it because nobody is willing to take up the case and do anything in response.
I’m hearing Berniebots have found another woman to hate. Somebody called Kamala Harris. Plus, jacobin.ru is against her. Never heard of her before but she must be doing something right to provoke this response.
There is a multitude of posts on FB where people count points or whatever and triumphantly declare that they wouldn’t be able to immigrate to the US under Trump’s new immigration law. Obviously, none of them are immigrants, and they seem very unaware how annoying this cheap posturing is to actual immigrants.
Because guess what? They wouldn’t be able to immigrate under the current system either. But they don’t care because it’s not about immigrants. It’s about virtue signaling at the expense of immigrants. And it just bugs me. Go use somebody else you despise as much as us for your feel-good moment of the day.
The only reason I managed to immigrate to the US is because I had a PhD, a tenure-track job, a university willing to file tons of paperwork to prove I have ‘exceptional talent’, and money to pay the onerous fees. If I’d been missing a single one of these components, I wouldn’t be here right now. This was all way before Trump. So count these points and tell me whether you’d be able to immigrate under Obama. And after you do that, please go stick your sudden concern for us immigrants deep into the place you found it.
I prefer open animosity to this mealy-mouthed pseudo-caring. We are not fucking stray puppies.
For a perfect illustration of what Rendueles says about the collapse of the skills of sociability, see this hilarious article about the drama in the YA fandom community.
An OSPI document explaining the health standards says students can be taught in kindergarten and first grade that “there are many ways to express gender.” … In fourth grade, when children are typically 10 years old, the guidelines say students should learn the definition of sexual orientation and more. From there, the standards recommend discussion of cultural influences on gender identity and eventually ramp up to more in-depth lessons on biological sex, gender identity, sexual orientation and more.
Of course, I’d prefer that students learned what Africa is and how to find it on a map, what countries share a border with the US, who Hitler was and that he’s dead (there’s nothing like delivering the news of Hitler’s demise to a group of stunned college students, believe me). But no, there’s no time for this arcane, trivial information. Let’s teach about the many ways of using nail polish instead.
Language teachers at local schools are entering into a competition to win iPads for their classrooms and publishing desperate pleas to support their entries on Facebook.
I don’t get this at all. I’ve been teaching languages literally for decades and I can’t even begin to imagine how an iPad can help in this process.
I’d rather kids weren’t introduced to anything that is run on apps. Apps make people dumb. If you are desperate for technology in the classroom, go with a computer. Although, I fail to see how even a computer could be useful in language learning.
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