From the evil to the wrong to the outrageous to the stupid the world seems full of…shall we say, the less than the ideal. So often does news of the latest “you have got to be kidding me” hit me in the face that I am beginning to wonder if I have turned into that old man sitting on his porch yelling at the kids to get off his lawn. And I struggle to explain it. We looked this week at how education has failed kids. But somehow it seem insufficient as an explanation.. . .
The Chronicle of Higher Education carries a piece by Tyler Jagt, a literature and critical writing professor, entitled, “My Student’s Can’t Read.” (I am forced to note that for any such prof I had, the use of a contraction in the headline would have been an automatic “B.”) The article is behind a paywall, but is summarized and discussed by Frank Landymore in an online outlet called Futurism. It is stunning in its assessment.. . .
Yesterday, in reviewing the obvious nature of electoral shenanigan’s in Los Angeles, I warned that we must resist the temptation to be like them. My argument, made in less eloquent terms than the Apostle Paul did in the passage quoted in the headline, was that when we do as they do, we give up our claim to rectitude and lose the argument. This has become massively apparent in recent developments in Belfast, Northern Ireland.. . .
On Thursday, The Pentagon announced a reorganization of its religious affiliation categories. Fair enough, the system had become unwieldy, religions come and go, adjustments do need to be made from time-to-time. But on Sunday it began to emerge that within the changes there was one particularly boneheaded change – The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints – The Mormons – were moved out of the “Christian category” and given a separate and unique classification. Oops – senators are protesting.. . .
Church these days loves to remind us that “God is love,” but it is funny how little we hear about when Jesus said, “Do not presume that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.” Too often we like to use the former to justify the church looking the other way about some issue. I thought about this as I read into Graham Platner this week.. . .
Yesterday I wrote, “I have always considered politics a mirror of our culture. Right now, if we are completely honest, the image is not pretty. The image is one primarily of distaste, discord and hatred. Our politics seeks not to build, but to oppose.” Nowhere is this more evident than in the current scandal surrounding the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC was paying for impotent white supremists to continue their activities just so the SPLC had something to oppose….. . .
I have always considered politics a mirror of our culture. Right now, if we are completely honest, the image is not pretty. The image is one primarily of distaste, discord and hatred. Our politics seeks not to build, but to oppose. We don’t hear much about lofty goals anymore – we only hear about “Candidate X must be stopped.” Sure Candidate X may need to be stopped because he or she is perceived to be opposed to some lofty goal, but somehow the lofty goal gets rapidly lost in the conversation, leaving only opposition. And with the lofty goal lost that opposition quickly turns to something much worse.. . .
Numbers are not supposed to lie. Lord Kelvin once said, “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science.” But then Lord Kelvin never met a modern day Democrat.. . .
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