COLLUSION: Qatar Waging Stealth Influence Operations Across U.S. Academic System, Documents Show.

MEMO TO MITCH MCCONNELL: You Won’t Get Judges If You Don’t Hold Resistance Accountable For Russia Hoax.

REPORTER ASKS KAYLEIGH MCENANY TO EXPLAIN OBAMAGATE AND THE CRIMES ALLEGEDLY COMMITTED, IMMEDIATELY REGRETS IT (Video):

NOT JUST OBAMAGATE: Howie Carr: Sleepy Joe Biden dazed and confused when it comes to Obamagate.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: The ACLU Sues To Stop Rules That Strengthen Due Process. “If you were looking for more evidence that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been losing its principled approach to civil liberties, look no further: The group has filed suit to thwart Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s recently proposed reforms to bolster due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct.”

Related: The ACLU’s Conversion to Wokeness.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Half-Time High School May Be Just What Students Need: For older students, the virus will change how the school day is structured. It’s about time.

The shutdown of America’s high schools has deprived millions of students of rites we previously took for granted. Coursework can be transferred online to some degree, but no virtual environment can replace football games, choir concerts, musicals and so much more that’s part of the American high school experience. We may continue to yearn for such things well into the autumn, especially in communities that face additional closures, and where public officials want students and educators to stay “socially distant” even when at school. Say goodbye to Friday Night Lights.

Yet while there’s much to rue about what the pandemic has taken away, it’s possible to glimpse a future in which technology liberates high school students — or at least some of them — from the six or seven-hour school day that has been crushing teenage souls for generations. That’s worth celebrating because so much of the school day amounts to wasted time. . . .

For decades, the organization of the school day has followed a stultifying routine. High school seniors force themselves to get up at the crack of dawn and sleepwalk their way to first-period by 7:30 or 8:00 a.m. They then slog through six or seven forty-five minute classes, and finally leave school at 2:30 or 3:00, ready at last to do something self-directed: play sports, head to band or theater or go to jobs. In theory, everyone tackles at least some homework before falling asleep and then repeating the daily grind.

But then something wonderful happens in the lives of teenagers: they go to college and the chains drop away. Their in-person class time drops to 15 hours a week, even with a full course load. Just three hours a day! But in return, they’re expected to do loads of independent work, participate in group projects and show up for office hours if they need additional help. In recent years, college students have also been watching some lectures online so class time can be spent on small-group discussions and doing hands-on laboratory work.

All this raises an obvious question: Why can’t our high schools look more like college? Does every high school course really need to meet in person, every day, given the technology available to us? What if kids could choose an every-other-day schedule, where they attend class in person on even days and stay home (or work from the school library or computer lab or do an apprenticeship) on odd days? Or they select a morning or afternoon schedule rather than attending all day long?

At least for the upcoming fall semester, moving to Half-Time High will be a necessity. The only way for schools to maintain social distance in crowded buildings is to operate well below capacity. This may mean running two shifts a day, morning and afternoon, or asking kids to show up in person every other day. If we don’t want kids to learn half as much, that means continuing with online learning — and lots more independent study — while at home.

If done right, these disruptions could introduce some long-overdue reforms in the way high school is structured.

The Insta-Daughter went to online school because she realized that only two or three hours of her school day actually involved learning. With online school she did her schoolwork at night, and had a job during the day. It worked out well for her.

OKAY, OKAY, I CAN’T EVEN:  There is this video that always makes me cackle showing an owl swimming in a bathroom sink, and clearly loving it.  Underneath the text goes “Who is going to tell this owl that he is not a duck? Anyone, anyone? No one? All right, then. He is now a duck.”
So, in that spirit, which of you is going to tell the Babylon Bee they’re supposed to be funny and not just report the news and really become America’s paper of record?  Anyone? Anyone?

Governor Newsom Orders Ballots To Be Sent To Every Cemetery In State.

(This one has been used on me, I swear, on Facebook)  Reminder: Adolf Hitler Also Wanted To Go Outside And Do Things.

Democrats Promise To Chew Up Cash, Tenderly Regurgitate It Into Mouths Of Voters.

Hillary Clinton Suggests That Americans Vote For President By Email.

Several States Issue Orders Requiring People To Run Around In Giant Hamster Balls.

No one? All right, then. The Babylon Bee is now America’s Paper of Record. More truth there than in any other paper in the US.

SURE. BUT THEN THEY WERE FED LOCO WEED. OR SJW PAP. SAME THING:  Today’s Woke Superheroes Have Conservative Roots.

THE WRITER OF THAT LAST POST DID A POST FOR MY BLOG TODAY:  Panic Reaction on a National Scale by David Burkhead.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:   UPDATE: Recently Released Comey Testimony Provides Further Evidence Sally Yates Had The Original Flynn 302 Written by Pientka Before It Mysteriously Went Missing…

OR, AS I LIKE TO CALL IT ‘LET US STAY LOCKED IN SO NO ONE DIES EVER AGAIN’:  The False Dilemma of Die or Die.

WHEN THEY RETURN, THEY WILL ERECT A STATUE OF BRAVE SIR ROBIN, THEIR INSPIRATION:  Michigan Legislature Closes to Avoid Gathering of Lockdown Protesters.

YEAH, THAT IS DEFINITELY THE BE ON END ALL ISSUE OF OUR DAY. PFFFF:  Associated Press chides “archaic and sexist term” “mistress”, announces it will now use “lover” or “companion”.

BECAUSE BEING A TODDLER, HE NEVER UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE ARE LIMITS ON WHAT HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO, EVEN IF HE WANTS IT REALLY BADLY:  #Obamagate is simply Obama being Obama.

In other words, your common garden variety pinko.

NO, NO. NOT A SCANDAL. FOR IT TO BE A SCANDAL, THE MEDIA WOULD HAVE TO REPORT IT:  The other secrets inside Grenell’s satchel are the key to the biggest political scandal in US history.

OH, I DON’T KNOW. THEY WANT TO KEEP PUBLIC INDOCTRINATION EDUCATION CLOSED? WELL! DON’T THROW ME IN THAT BRIAR PATCH, B’RER WOLF!  Don’t Close the Schools.

OKAY, GUYS. IT’S OBVIOUS SOMEONE ON THE LEFT FOUND MCCAIN’S STASH OF BLACKMAIL MATERIAL ON LINDSEY GRAHAM. HE’S BEING CONTROLLED AGAIN.  LET’S FIND IT AND BURN IT. I LIKE THE GRAHAMINATOR BETTER:  Graham Throws Cold Water on Trump’s Call For Obama to Testify in ObamaGate Hearing.

“MORAL”:  The Moral Busybodies Strike Again.

GOOD:  NASCAR Resumes Sunday, MLB In Talks To Start.

No “new normal.” There’s nothing normal about this novelty. Let’s get back to the old normal.

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HEH:

I’M ALMOST AFRAID THAT 2020 WOULDN’T BE COMPLETE WITHOUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS: The Great Geomagnetic Storm of May 1921.

John Ringo emails: “Pandemics almost invariably correlate to solar minimums. So do massive volcanic eruptions. SWEET DREAMS!”

Thanks, John.

OPEN THREAD: Deliciously toxic. The original classic thing — more of the same.