Oh, Texas. This is so very you: A book about poverty is again being challenged in Highland Park ISD, one of the wealthiest school districts in the state. Seems that some parents are worried that The Working Poor: Invisible in America, by David K. Shipler, is too "sexually explicit" for 11th graders in an advanced placement class that's meant to be the equivalent of a college course. Also, the complaint says, the book would be better suited to a political science or sociology class. Worst of all, it's about poor people struggling to make ends meet in America, and no teenager needs to be exposed to such communist lies. (We're extrapolating that last bit).
I read Out of the Dust when I was a kid--it's definitely elementary school level, not core-curriculum or advanced high school. It was good, and remains on the shelves of libraries I work in, but was not a good recc at all for this situation.
Also, I don't believe any of those books focus on global poverty, although I haven't read Ayn Rand.
Given their typical inabililty to recognize satire, and their inoperative irony detectors, can you imagine the conservatard response if their precious snowflakes brought that item home to read?
Screw the riches... go Mormon and you get a whole fucking planet! They certainly one-upped the muslins with that promise, but I'm not sure if the Xtian heaven is considered a better deal.
You mean Ayn Rand the <i>rape glamorizer?</i>
And if you thought nothing could be worse than Rand&#039;s own &quot;writing,&quot; here&#039;s a &quot;SparkNotes&quot; precis:
<blockquote>Three evenings later, Dominique is sitting in her bedroom when Roark enters. He takes her in his arms roughly. She fights him, but he overpowers her. Roark then rapes her like &ldquo;a master taking shameful, contemptuous possession&rdquo; of a slave. Dominique realizes that this humiliation is exactly what she wants and that if Roark had behaved tenderly, she would have remained cold. Roark leaves without a word.</blockquote> No fapping, please!
It <i>is</i> about 120 pp. Tough slog.
Oh yes also maybe the greatest works of satire in English since <i>Gulliver&#039;s Travels,</i> but who cares? &quot;Honey Boo-Boo&quot; is on tonight.
Very good. I already do this when I get the chance. For instance, I enjoy building models of the things I read about. Right now I&#039;m building a scale model of a WWII destroyer escort. I also have a photo of this ship on my monitor screen. When the pimple faced pop-cultured putz I share a space with starts yarbling on how brave the sniper dude was I point out the aft 40mm anti-aircraft position and talk about how, during a kamikaze attack off the coast of Okinawa, a Japanese aircraft flew right up the wake of the ship with the intention of striking it. The crew of the gun were all essentially kids...not even regular navy and certainly not professional military personnel. Yet they kept loading and firing their guns right up to the point of impact that killed them all. All the putz could say was, and I&#039;m not kidding, well...that was a long time ago.
It&#039;s a cookbook, sheeple!!
The &quot;Rolling Acres&quot; farm set! You had to put the danged barn together from the flat metal pieces. <a href="http://www.vintagetoysillus..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.vintagetoysillustrated.com/vintagetoy/...">http://www.vintagetoysillus...
I read Out of the Dust when I was a kid--it's definitely elementary school level, not core-curriculum or advanced high school. It was good, and remains on the shelves of libraries I work in, but was not a good recc at all for this situation.
Also, I don't believe any of those books focus on global poverty, although I haven't read Ayn Rand.
Given their typical inabililty to recognize satire, and their inoperative irony detectors, can you imagine the conservatard response if their precious snowflakes brought that item home to read?
Screw the riches... go Mormon and you get a whole fucking planet! They certainly one-upped the muslins with that promise, but I&#039;m not sure if the Xtian heaven is considered a better deal.
Barbarians at the gated community.
As we send education and science down the crap-hole, I -- for one -- do <i>not</i> welcome our G.E.D. overlords.
OT and my apologies - I just need to make a short rant:
If ONE MORE co-worker who finds out I&#039;m interested in military history suggests I should go see American Sniper, I.Will.Puke.Blood.
Never have lips on nipples sounded so unappealing.
You mean Ayn Rand the <i>rape glamorizer?</i>
And if you thought nothing could be worse than Rand&#039;s own &quot;writing,&quot; here&#039;s a &quot;SparkNotes&quot; precis:
<blockquote>Three evenings later, Dominique is sitting in her bedroom when Roark enters. He takes her in his arms roughly. She fights him, but he overpowers her. Roark then rapes her like &ldquo;a master taking shameful, contemptuous possession&rdquo; of a slave. Dominique realizes that this humiliation is exactly what she wants and that if Roark had behaved tenderly, she would have remained cold. Roark leaves without a word.</blockquote> No fapping, please!
And sportsball! Don&#039;t forget sportsball!
It <i>is</i> about 120 pp. Tough slog.
Oh yes also maybe the greatest works of satire in English since <i>Gulliver&#039;s Travels,</i> but who cares? &quot;Honey Boo-Boo&quot; is on tonight.
Who knew there was website besides this one with intelligent comments?
Blackened Light-Salted P&eacute;nis de Rongeurs Empoisonn&eacute;s
Food always sounds better in French
Very good. I already do this when I get the chance. For instance, I enjoy building models of the things I read about. Right now I&#039;m building a scale model of a WWII destroyer escort. I also have a photo of this ship on my monitor screen. When the pimple faced pop-cultured putz I share a space with starts yarbling on how brave the sniper dude was I point out the aft 40mm anti-aircraft position and talk about how, during a kamikaze attack off the coast of Okinawa, a Japanese aircraft flew right up the wake of the ship with the intention of striking it. The crew of the gun were all essentially kids...not even regular navy and certainly not professional military personnel. Yet they kept loading and firing their guns right up to the point of impact that killed them all. All the putz could say was, and I&#039;m not kidding, well...that was a long time ago.
Not enough air in that story.