Yes, the orange felon insults. As semi-retired Chris Matthews argues: nab him as the bully he is.
This fits Matthews' larger argument that Kamala and the Dems should stay on offense – attack the sewage of lies and pro-criminality in which Republicans wallow.
The lies spew MAGA sensationalism – fears of hordes at the southern border, fears …
Yes, the orange felon insults. As semi-retired Chris Matthews argues: nab him as the bully he is.
This fits Matthews' larger argument that Kamala and the Dems should stay on offense – attack the sewage of lies and pro-criminality in which Republicans wallow.
The lies spew MAGA sensationalism – fears of hordes at the southern border, fears of them as murderers, rapists, parasites, further fears of them as takers of what Republicans shill as “black jobs,” “Hispanic jobs.”
The personal buoys whomever goes best on offense. For Kamala and Dems to do that, they’ve got to draw on, highlight the personal.
Here in Japan, where I live in the mountains of Kyushu, schools all ape U.S. standardized testing. It fits all life to numbers: measurable units, abstracted categories, 1-2-3 chronologies. As Minae Mizumura has written (“The Fall of Language in the Age of English”), no school in Japan anymore asks students to read any novel from beginning to end. The personal? Gone – disappeared for testers to fragment all to, for testing.
Can Dems vault how schools produce most now bereft of humanities? Can Dems lift anything well humanly personal over the MAGA sewers?
Hi Phil, I also live in Japan, in Tokyo. My friends who teach English at universities and high schools in Japan have mentioned to me how frustrated they are becoming. I was teaching art at a university until the pandemic and was quite shocked at students’ lackadaisical attitude. I quit giving homework because they invariably didn’t do it.
The problem is worse is America, which is why critical thinking skills are nearly non-existent.
Is This the End of Reading? By Beth McMurtrie MAY 9, 2024
“Theresa MacPhail is a pragmatist. In her 15 years of teaching, as the number of students who complete their reading assignments has steadily declined, she has adapted. She began assigning fewer readings, then fewer still. Less is more, she reasoned. She would focus on the readings that mattered most and were interesting to them. For a while, that seemed to work. But then things started to take a turn for the worse. Most students still weren’t doing the reading. And when they were, more and more struggled to understand it. Some simply gave up. Their distraction levels went “through the roof,” MacPhail said. They had trouble following her instructions. And sometimes, students said her expectations — such as writing a final research paper with at least 25 sources — were unreasonable.”
Hurts me to see so many students, at all levels, clearly needing guidance, teaching, further examples, parallels, perspectives in handling the personally difficult.
In Japan it hurts more, too, because without personal learning, of personally-needed, personally-challenging matters (and how others faced these things in apt novels), Japanese youth just off themselves. Three times the rate of suicide of American youth the same age.
And then there's the new phenomenon of so many Japanese young adults not dating, not having any personal life -- corroborated in the U.S. by similar age young adults glommed unto social media too many hours a day, blotting out possibilities of getting out for real lives with others in any number of various public venues.
Not good, Kristin. So thanks again for yours from Tokyo.
Look at America, where the orange felon parades the success of just lying egregiously, enacting contempt at democratic institutions, calling for stochastic violence, routinely committing fraud, raping, abusing, insulting women.
An entire Republican party falls over itself to fall in line for the theatricality.
That Clarence court rather likes sensationalized criminality, rules it above the law (same law, or sets of laws that in their view permit their own perjury, condone their own brazenly taking bribes). Same court that has just ruled, too, to free our worst predators from the federal agencies who had regulated for public health, safety, and the environment.
The rule of commercial vulgarity, dark money, schools stripped of humanities bodes ill for all democracies, dark ages for all who have, or used to have, real cultures respecting individuals and all those nuances, subtleties, respect for life's complications -- what poet Joseph Brodsky reveled in calling our civilizational "loose ends."
But maybe, Kristin, American will turn out landslide fashion for our democracy, against the many ur-vulgar elites.
Yes, the orange felon insults. As semi-retired Chris Matthews argues: nab him as the bully he is.
This fits Matthews' larger argument that Kamala and the Dems should stay on offense – attack the sewage of lies and pro-criminality in which Republicans wallow.
The lies spew MAGA sensationalism – fears of hordes at the southern border, fears of them as murderers, rapists, parasites, further fears of them as takers of what Republicans shill as “black jobs,” “Hispanic jobs.”
The personal buoys whomever goes best on offense. For Kamala and Dems to do that, they’ve got to draw on, highlight the personal.
Here in Japan, where I live in the mountains of Kyushu, schools all ape U.S. standardized testing. It fits all life to numbers: measurable units, abstracted categories, 1-2-3 chronologies. As Minae Mizumura has written (“The Fall of Language in the Age of English”), no school in Japan anymore asks students to read any novel from beginning to end. The personal? Gone – disappeared for testers to fragment all to, for testing.
Can Dems vault how schools produce most now bereft of humanities? Can Dems lift anything well humanly personal over the MAGA sewers?
Hi Phil, I also live in Japan, in Tokyo. My friends who teach English at universities and high schools in Japan have mentioned to me how frustrated they are becoming. I was teaching art at a university until the pandemic and was quite shocked at students’ lackadaisical attitude. I quit giving homework because they invariably didn’t do it.
The problem is worse is America, which is why critical thinking skills are nearly non-existent.
Is This the End of Reading? By Beth McMurtrie MAY 9, 2024
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-this-the-end-of-reading
“Theresa MacPhail is a pragmatist. In her 15 years of teaching, as the number of students who complete their reading assignments has steadily declined, she has adapted. She began assigning fewer readings, then fewer still. Less is more, she reasoned. She would focus on the readings that mattered most and were interesting to them. For a while, that seemed to work. But then things started to take a turn for the worse. Most students still weren’t doing the reading. And when they were, more and more struggled to understand it. Some simply gave up. Their distraction levels went “through the roof,” MacPhail said. They had trouble following her instructions. And sometimes, students said her expectations — such as writing a final research paper with at least 25 sources — were unreasonable.”
Thank you, Kristin.
Hurts me to see so many students, at all levels, clearly needing guidance, teaching, further examples, parallels, perspectives in handling the personally difficult.
In Japan it hurts more, too, because without personal learning, of personally-needed, personally-challenging matters (and how others faced these things in apt novels), Japanese youth just off themselves. Three times the rate of suicide of American youth the same age.
And then there's the new phenomenon of so many Japanese young adults not dating, not having any personal life -- corroborated in the U.S. by similar age young adults glommed unto social media too many hours a day, blotting out possibilities of getting out for real lives with others in any number of various public venues.
Not good, Kristin. So thanks again for yours from Tokyo.
It’s really a tragedy! What will happen to Japan’s beautiful culture?
Not just Japan, sadly, Kristin.
Look at America, where the orange felon parades the success of just lying egregiously, enacting contempt at democratic institutions, calling for stochastic violence, routinely committing fraud, raping, abusing, insulting women.
An entire Republican party falls over itself to fall in line for the theatricality.
That Clarence court rather likes sensationalized criminality, rules it above the law (same law, or sets of laws that in their view permit their own perjury, condone their own brazenly taking bribes). Same court that has just ruled, too, to free our worst predators from the federal agencies who had regulated for public health, safety, and the environment.
The rule of commercial vulgarity, dark money, schools stripped of humanities bodes ill for all democracies, dark ages for all who have, or used to have, real cultures respecting individuals and all those nuances, subtleties, respect for life's complications -- what poet Joseph Brodsky reveled in calling our civilizational "loose ends."
But maybe, Kristin, American will turn out landslide fashion for our democracy, against the many ur-vulgar elites.