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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
I’d like to think I’ve got awhile to wait before being lowered into the ground. So how I’m remembered, if at all, I’m in no position to say right now.
What if people just shirk their duties to job and to their own educations in my name?
I think I’d just as soon be forgotten. Poor Caesar.
In what has become an annual rite to honor the late civil rights leader Cesar Chavez – and protest the fact that his namesake holiday does not extend to schools – students at Hiram Johnson and Luther Burbank plan to walk out of classrooms Monday.
Organizers with affirmative action and immigrant rights groups have called for a school boycott, and said in a statement that students in Los Angeles, Oakland and Sacramento plan to march in honor of Chavez’s legacy.
“We demand the opportunity to celebrate who we are,” Hiram Johnson High School student Randy Lopez said in a statement. “Our schools could build up our pride and self-worth through events like celebrating the Chavez holiday, but this doesn’t happen. Instead our communities are treated invisible by our schools.”
Not “we celebrate”…but “we demand the opportunity to celebrate.” Injecting antagonism where it did not exist previously. How charming. And this is a high school student, a member of tomorrow’s generation.
Problem? Well, I guess my opinion isn’t that important. Let’s see what Caesar’s grandson has to say about it.
“The best way to honor Cesar Chavez is to make it a ‘day on’ – not a ‘day off,'” Anthony Chavez, grandson of Cesar Chavez told The Bee on Sunday. “We really want our students to be involved … there are still many things we need to work on.”
The younger Chavez, who will speak at Genevieve Didion School in Sacramento on Monday, said these days it is especially important for students to stay in school and maximize their education.
Words worth heeding, in my book. No matter, he’s sure to be shouted down.
Demanding. Confronting. Arguing. Walking-off. Meanwhile, I keep hearing how Caesar Chavez won all these rights for the “workers.” I hope his grandson prevails in this little difference of opinion that seems to be stirring in what passes for a “civil rights movement” of sorts…but if he does not…if the symbol of the earlier Chavez endures as a massive walk-off session and talk-back session and how-dare-you-this-or-that session and a general bitch-pitch…
…ultimately, we’d have to start remembering him as the guy who won a bunch of rights for non-workers. Call that “honoring his memory” if you want to. You don’t become a free people by finding excuses to skip class.
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…Instead our communities are treated invisible by our schools.”
Young Mr. Lopez needs to spend more time in his remedial English lab.
- Buck | 03/31/2008 @ 12:55Yup, and I got the first name of his idol wrong.
Nobody’s perfect. That’s why it’s not a bright idea to short your own education, and if you’re doing it to honor somebody it’s not that high of an honor.
- mkfreeberg | 03/31/2008 @ 13:33This whole demanding stuff from the rest of us has got to stop.
Libertarians see government as a big coersion tool. I think they’re right about this. And what we have is various groups trying to hijack it to make us all behave the way they want us to.
The founding fathers were very aware of this and tried to guard against it. The problem is that for at least the last several generations this idea that Democracy trumps all has been drilled into people’s heads. And America is not supposed to be a democracy. It is a republic with rules and democratic input. Lately we’ve been allowing democracy to trump the rules.
We now think Government is there to “do” for us. So “we”, and I mean the general “we”, not you and me specifically … tend to look at politicians and vote for them based on what they say they’re going to “do” for “us”.
Add judicial activism to that, and … it’s just a huge mess.
What I want them to do for us is undo a bunch of this doing they’ve been doing and put us back closer to the Constitutional Republic we’re supposed to be.
The first thing elected officials are supposed to swear to is to uphold the Constitution. Not to force us all to accomodate people who don’t speak our common language and make sure everybody has health care provided for them and force us to call things “marriage” that we don’t want to call “marriage”.
- philmon | 03/31/2008 @ 20:05