DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Newsom signs law easing rules requiring students to learn English, change will impact 1 million. “They furthermore said too many students classified as English learners were held back months or even years after mastering the language. Under the new law, students will have to pass only one state-approved English assessment to show they are proficient, the newspaper also reports.”

You’d have to trust Sacramento’s figures to put any stock in that.

I look at the new law as just more sand in the gears of America’s once-might assimilation machine.