It is to laugh – or not … more on culture wars in elementary math class …
It’s not often that life imitates art so precisely. When it does, the result is frightening. But there it all is, on YouTube and Twitter. First the art. Watch Alternative Math – A Short Film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3Yz3PiXZw&t=17s from Ideaman. This is a nine minute recounting of a teacher’s existential crisis at trying to …
I m Perfect – Picture at an Exhibition
Until at least 2016, there was a fascination with western looking models in China, just as there has been with Asian looking models in the US. Women’s clothing stores are a major venue for other-looking models in ads and store windows. This upscale women’s clothing store at our local mall in …
Has Trump has been doing God’s work?
For years, some evangelical leaders have been touting Trump as the wolf-king, anointed by God to enact the Christian right agenda. Symbols are important in this swamp-fevered world, and Trump’s immorality is actually a positive sign of his worthiness. Go figure.Four years ago, Peter Montgomery noted 25 Religious Right Justifications for Supporting Donald …
Killer App
Trump, Xi, CCP, GOP is the title of a series of posts I ran about a year ago, pointing out some of the ways that Trump and Xi are alike, and CCP and GOP are alike.We know that Mr. Xi and CCP wasted about six weeks at the early stages of …
CCP and Mr. Xi’s Learning Disability
Two full months into the Covid-19 crisis, we see where Mr. Xi’s crackdown on communication and openness has taken him. He is himself in no danger, but CCP runs into a conceptual wall with free flow of information. That is a disability – a learning disability – for CCP and …
For leaders, information does not want to be free – lessons from Wuhan
(Note: update at February 13 – Hubei has changed the manner of identifying virus infections, and the new system overnight adds about 15,000 people to the total. The number of deaths is also changed, but obviously the government will not go back and change death certificates from the last month. …
