No School Bus

on my walks, no school buses this year. First time in a decade that I haven’t seen a bus somewhere in my 5 miler. Second day out, I saw one so I knew school was in session. All the kids in my area had graduated. They left for college. Or, something else.

creationism : “Where the appeal to evidence fails so completely, the appeal to tolerance cannot succeed,” writes Kitcher. The pattern, of course, has not ended with creationism.

— NOTES FROM TEXAS TEACHER FIRINGS.. include? executive order leaglism. deb: assignments… what refs in your religion? — show course description clearly states gender topic. The teacher was fired because the retired general is afraid of sock puppets of the X social. He was as afraid of them as they are of jet trails and puppy dog tails. Wrong general for this fight.

Her syllabus clearly states: special focus on diversity in gender… [see the clip] The page was quick to be deleted, just not quicker than my screen grab.

Build a career by trolling academics. post your righteous indignation .. The blues of the collar denounce the scholar . Smurfing your way to a payday — nodding to Chuck and Church

In Texas, this is the Curriculum.

Great way to sell college. Two girls for every ROTC. Texas, what a great state for knowledge.

more at other posts: Uniform of the Day

[mccool – Building the next generation of the Warrior Class along with the Dog Patch workers.

To the point: Texas isn’t about education. Not that they don’t love another tax break.

Along comes this worthwhile general read: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-department-of-education-changing-public-schools

Earlier this year, the Trump administration enacted cuts to academic research, curtailed visas for foreign students — especially those from China — and increased taxes on elite schools

In May, Trump alleged top U.S. universities are cradles of anti-American movements and revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students, a move later blocked by a federal judge.

— more: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2025/11/25/professor-texas-used-to-have-universities/

ongoing — https://dailynous.com/2026/01/16/texas-am-administrators-will-cancel-your-course-if-you-dont-tell-them-exactly-where-and-what-its-race-and-gender-parts-are/

The Written Web

exists, hypertext, however,  not so much .. The written web replaced the blog. The blog was managed by a person who traveled from blog blog by links.. now those written pieces are hosted on commercial space.. you provide the filler to their ads or you buy off the space…

Facebook doesn’t seem to permit the buy off; you will never own any piece of Facebook .. that’s also the path of Reddit..you are filler. . Substack you buy, as you can with WordPress..

The commercial web gave you ease of technical and took away your rights of privacy and profit .. you no longer have control because the technology has control… The things of the world have always been the world; owners of the things , even if they are digital things, own you

TELLING TALES

again and again. Making them taller, making your shadow longer. Done to impress the civilian, the non-participant, the one on the sidelines. Making a grand stand.

The difference between the part-timer and the full-timer. The committed and the interested in getting a story to tell. A tattoo for table talk. These aren’t scars, the are scarves.

Much of this can be seen in all message/gossip boards.. both among the “bro-vets” and the pho-photogs. As much about glorification of their small efforts..

They bought the boots, the perfect laces, compass and map; have taken a course on following course, even going so far as hiring a guide, once. And, now, the laces are knot free, the map is in a drawer, somewhere. 

The online answer boards are the ending gasp of film, chemical lab photography. They wouldn’t believe this. They don’t believe it. How could they be the ones killing what they want to survive. With error. Error of fact. By error of purpose is the greater weight the new would have to overcome.