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Your own Olive checking in from an urban public school. Yesterday, during the students’ regular dose of Islamic indoctrination, one of the actors in a dramatic reading uttered the F word. Well, the students went wild. That got a big reaction, and I was very proud of our students, because we teach them not to talk like that, and we model professional behavior, and we would be hypocrites if we then turned around and let some actors in an assembly drop F-bombs everywhere.
After the students settled down, the performers carried on with their lament about how hard it was for Muslims in the U.S. after 9/11. No mention of how hard it was for firefighters’ families who lost loved ones on that day. No, the correct lamentation, … Continue reading →

I didn’t know everybody would be alerted to my signing up here! Thanks for the welcome, BDB, and everybody who commented.

10 Cents emailed me to let me know about this, the new place to waste time on the internet. Which is good, because I had become too conservative for Ricochet, and was just generally involved in other pursuits. Then I was a Twitter addict for awhile, but lately I had to quit that too, because some of the content is great but the feeds I was reading were on the nihilistic side, mixed with some total garbage. So I was quite without a place to interact online, until Dime helped me out.

Your humble correspondent is originally from Dallas, as many of you know, but now I am on … Continue reading →