Posted on December 21, 2010
The Christmas Problem
I think it’s time we talk about the Christmas Problem. Or, more to a point, it’s time that I talk and you listen. And agree, unless you’re a hypocrite – in which case you can just go right on and have yourself a merry little bowl of shut the hell up.
I’m going to skip through the usual Christmas hate, bypassing altogether the hand-wringing over the commercialism, the wanton spending and strange disconnect from the purported purpose of the holiday. All of these things are as self-evident as Jingle Bells muzak in October, and I won’t waste your time repeating them here.
Instead, I’m going to cut straight through to the heart of the Christmas Problem and attack it head-on. In my usual roundabout way. Read More
Posted on September 28, 2010
Carrol Thomas vs. The Media
This entry originally appeared in The Beaumont Enterprise.
Dr. Carrol A. “Butch” Thomas, Superintendent of the Beaumont Independent School District, has a bone to pick with “biased members of the media” in this week’s installment of BISD’s kinda-sorta-but-not-really-weekly newsletter, One Vision.
In this latest nugget of wisdom, Dr. Thomas blasts the media for covering negative aspects of the school district. He says, “Yes, a typical week in the news for BISD includes front page and prime time on anything negative that goes on in this district of 20,000 students and more than 3,000 employees.”
Well, we agree with him so far. A typical week in the news for BISD is usually pretty harsh. But then again, a week without a BISD scandal would be like…a…uhm…like a…er… Well, I’m sure it’d be like something that probably exists somewhere in the universe but that nobody can ever actually prove exists, even if they’d really quite like to. Like room temperature superconductors. Or unicorns. Read More
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