Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT AS A WHOLE REGARDS STUDENTS AS INCONVENIENT OBSTACLES TO THEIR GETTING A PAYCHECK FOR NICE, INDOOR WORK. THERE ARE GOOD TEACHERS HERE AND THERE, BUT “PUBLIC” EDUCATION IS A ROTTEN EDIFICE:  Schools, Teachers, and Covid: Disregard Students.

PASSED HUGE BILLBOARD WITH A BUNCH OF TOMATOES AND A WEBSITE, SOMEWHERE IN KANSAS.  THOUGHT “IS THIS RIGHT WING FARMERS, SELLING TOMATOES?”  SO OF COURSE I HAD TO CHECK IT OUT.  AND I WAS WRONG:  It was this.

Not much actually going on, but at least they’re trying.

SORRY FOR EXTENDED ABSENCE: Mother-in-law died, and we drove 3000 miles to funeral(round trip), give or take.  I might be miscounting miles. There were lots of them, though. Probably less irksome than flying these days, and we got lots of time to talk.  Also I drove more highway miles than I ever have before, and we’re still alive, so there’s good news.  Sorry I didn’t warn those of you in states we passed through to stay indoors, as there would be a crazy writer behind the wheel….

IT WAS TIME AND MORE THAN TIME THIRTY YEARS AGO:  Time to #DefundUN? Secretary General links coronavirus pandemic harm to “millennia of patriarchy”.

Truth is it never should have been funded. It was born of the naive belief that throwing all the nations of the world together — the dictatorships and the free nations, the sane and the insane — would result in any kind of peaceful resolution of the world’s problems.  Some very smart people fell for this. But the experiment sadly failed to defy logic. And we’ve known that for a long, long, long time.

IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS, THEY TRIED THIS TWO YEARS AGO. IT DIDN’T FLY THEN. ANONYMOUS SOURCES? DEAR MEDIA WE WOULDN’T TRUST YOU IF YOU SWORE ON YOUR MOTHER’S COFFIN. EVEN IF YOU HAD EVER HAD MOTHERS:  Atlantic Gate 2.0: Trump Mocked Vietnam Soldiers.