It’s early! Browsing through yesterday’s headlines (I’m a day behind because I was swamped with work yesterday and today won’t be much better), I found quite a few interesting things. For example:
Random Tapings: Teacher resigns after allegedly taping student to desk: This poor woman snapped! A 21-year veteran of the government-run school system bound a student with duct tape and taped him to a desk. Apparently the kid has “attention deficit disorder.” Samantha over at Uncle Sam’s Cabin blogged about this the other week.
Random Indignation: Secretary of Education Rod Paige apologized for calling teachers’ unions terrorists. I was hoping he wouldn’t but knew he would. At least Paige stands behind his words even after the apology. He says, accurately, that teachers’ unions use “obstructionist scare tactics” in the fight over the nation’s education law.”
The columnist also mentions Tom Daschle’s comments about Christians:
Now, please, for a moment would the progressives in the studio audience regress to Senator Daschle’s remarks, circa midterm elections 2002? Picture the highest-ranking Democrat in the nation labeling conservative Christians “America’s Taliban.” Only clean-shaven, I guess.
I have a vague recollection of this, but I can’t find anything substantive about it. I guess the writer is correct about the hypocrisy of the media. Of course he is!
Random Dirty Diapers: An idiot father hid his drugs in his baby’s diaper. The officer has probably found drugs hidden on babies dozens of times. The “father” argued that there was no probable cause to search the dirty diaper. What else is a drug dealer’s lawyer to say? Our Fourth Amendment is a great thing but is often abused.
Random Tradition: Being the girl I am, I almost cried when I read this story about a soldier going to Iraq carrying the same family heirloom (a soldier’s stainless steel razor set ) his great great-uncle carried in WWI and grandfather carried in WWII. The soldier says he wants to teach history one day. Hopefully not in a government-run school! God be with him.
I saved the best for last.
Random Blackness: John Kerry wants to be America’s “second black president.” Who was the first, you ask? Let Kerry tell you: “President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn’t be upset if I could earn the right to be the second,” he told the American Urban Radio Network. Did he really say that? Probably. Was he laughed off the air? Probably not. White liberals can make moronic and insulting remarks to black liberals and receive applause.
Kerry’s referring to a 1998 essay written by a black writer named Toni Morrison. At the height of the Clinton scandal, Toni Morrison said this about Bill Clinton:
African-American men seemed to understand it right away. Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.
And when virtually all the African-American Clinton appointees began, one by one, to disappear, when the President’s body, his privacy, his unpoliced sexuality became the focus of the persecution, when he was metaphorically seized and body searched, who could gainsay these black men who knew whereof they spoke? (Emphasis added)
Even when I was still working on the liberals’ plantation, I was embarrassed by Morrison’s essay. At one point I really liked her work.
Morrison got away with painting a very degrading picture of black men. Without a doubt, she thought she’d written something profound. “Unpoliced sexuality” and “junk-food-loving” are black traits, huh? With friends like Toni Morrison and a brain-dead national media…
I could go on like this all morning, but the day job beckons!
