Category: Education

  • Phonics for the win

    The thirty year battle between two methods of teaching kids to read – traditional phonics and “whole language” – may well have been settled with the news that none other than New York City schools have decided in favour of the former, dumping every aspect of the curriculum using the latter: The chancellor of New…

  • I need my phone

    And I’ll pepper-spray the shit out of you if you don’t give it back to me. Even when you’re my teacher who confiscated it from me. According to the River City Post, the same teacher was punched in the face two months ago by a student for whose cell phone he also confiscated. This kind of behavior…

  • “An intellectual is a self-appointed soul engineer who sees it as his sacred duty to operate on mankind with an axe.” 

    The intellectual will feel at home where an exclusive elite is in charge of affairs, and it matters not whether it be an elite of aristocrats, soldiers, merchants, or intellectuals. He would prefer an elite that is culturally literate, but will put up with one that is not. What he cannot endure is a society…

  • PolitiFact Pushback – by Twitter Community Notes

    It’s nice to see the fake “fact checkers” get swamped by ordinary people on Twitter who bring the receipts to show what lying hacks they are as they cover for the Establishment figures like Weingarten who are now back-tracking like crazy about the support they gave for things like lockdowns. And NO, it is not…

  • Fighting retro censorship

    Back in 2019 I wrote a post, Our Retro Future, about the strange revival of the vinyl LP in today’s society, thirty years after the rise of the CD seemingly killed it off. That CD’s in turn were killed off by the rise of computer-disk-based devices like the iPod and then the solid state world…

  • Keeping secrets.

    No this is not a post about the baby-faced traitor that’s just been arrested in the US for spilling US Intelligence Community secrets out on to the Interwebby. That’s for another post. Instead, this post is simply to introduce a little humour into the decidedly grim Trans-Rights insanity. In the USA some states like Florida…