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/

stock doom> AI bloom

2025 healthcare dropping .. investment anticipating AI’s influence in the office world.. The office is not diagnostics. the office is dance. automated intelligence, even robotic transport isn’t interactive enough ,accurate enough ,responsible enough to dance in the organizational hive.. it will be introduced; it will work in those places which are most like a machine, and it will fail  the organizations which are most flexible, most humane… AI is touted as being perfect for the unstructured data, but structure is data… organization means data.

until AI is human, you will have to be AI; it’s still a dog that bites and shits more than anything else …

 wealth alone always sucks air out of the life of an economy, out of distribution… it’s just another form of market farces … AI’s bubble is air for the top, for the top of the moneyed. They know this. The bigger the boat, the better at riding a  tide. They also know that tides are essential for their ship.

The buildout of infrastructure will not benefit those on the side.. they will be displaced further. Ever been to the trailer parks among the switchbacks. Hows that internet cable doing. Maybe the satellite brings you a FOX report about what others are buying — sorry, not available at the corner store one town over.

next: The middle wall fall, the bottom will stall

[ AI transcription couldn’t get that phrase even though it will replace 60 to 80% of all entry level white color positions by 2027]