YOU JUST KNOW THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WILL SOMEHOW MANAGE TO LOSE ALL OF THIS:  St Mary’s, Fairford.  An accidental pilgrimage.

SO. OTHER THAN OVERSEAS, WHERE WE CAN’T DRIVE, I PREFER DRIVING:   Pilot Vaccines.

GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE CHARITY BUSINESS AND LOWER TAXES: More importantly, make it socially acceptable for women to stay home and raise their own kids. Weirdly, that huge cost of having your child raised by strangers goes away. As does buying premade food and all the other stuff.  Impossible you say? Well, we somehow managed and kept up with our two-income families. And we only made the kind of money they talk about for one brief, shining year.  Escape Velocity: Why America’s 1963 Poverty Math Is Broken.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the long weekend.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher with 8-week-old baby pleads guilty to having sex with her student, 15. “Rae claimed to have been unaware that the boy was underage, despite the fact that he was a student at her school, according to reports. . . . Rae pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a teenage boy, possessing child abuse material, grooming a child for unlawful sexual activity and committing an act with the intention of perverting the course of justice, the ABC reported.”

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: The Ideological Erosion of College Readiness. “The report points to pandemic disruptions, the removal of standardized tests like the SAT, and grade inflation masking academic weakness. But these are symptoms, not causes. The deeper problem is an ideological takeover of America’s K-12 system — an approach that dismisses standardized tests as ‘products of white supremacy’ and inflates grades to preserve the illusion of success. It’s an approach that relies on a teaching philosophy that promotes activism in the classroom for causes like decolonization (‘down with America’) and anti-racism (solving racism with more racism), all at the expense of core academic proficiency.”