Archive for 2020

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Elizabeth Bartholet, The “Karen Wants To Speak To The Manager” Professor Of Law At Harvard, Doesn’t Like Homeschooling.

Instapundit, April 20th.

Chaser: Will online schooling increase child abuse risks? HLS Child Advocacy Program Director Elizabeth Bartholet ’65 and child welfare expert James Dwyer warn of dangers and call on officials to adopt new safeguards to protect children forced to learn at home.

Harvard Magazine, August 14th.

Exit quote from the latter article via Corey DeAngelis: “Some parents have discovered that public schools are worse than they thought, and have been surprised at how little their kids have been learning.”

STACY MCCAIN: The War Against Judgment. “What is involved here is a combinary of hypocrisy and projection. The advocates of non-judgmentalism are hypocrites, in that they fail to live up to the standard they so ardently advocate, and at the same time, they project onto other their own particular failings. What they suffer from, really, is a lack of self-awareness that prevents them from being objective about their own attitudes, opinions, beliefs and preferences.”

PORTLAND HAVING ITS OWN SUMMER OF LOVE: Suspect in downtown Portland beating turns himself in, police say. “Marquise Love turned himself in and was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center, police said. He’s accused of felony assault, coercion and rioting and is being held on $260,000 bail.”

NOOO: Ammo Shortage May Last Until 2021. Luckily, I have stocks to fall back on. But I’ve upped my practice, which does go through ammo.

JOANNE JACOBS: Say it ain’t so, Joe. “The Democratic Party’s platform, based on a Biden-Sanders ‘unity’ task force’s recommendations, ‘steer Biden away from the coalition of Black and low-income voters who brought him the nomination,’ write Aldeman and Spurrier. ‘Maybe this shouldn’t come as a surprise — given that two of the eight members of the task force are the heads of the two major teachers unions’.”