90% likely to spend his entire life in poverty. Today, that's 73% of Black men.
Your teacher knows by 8th grade, and then it's the school-to-prison pipeline.

Thanks, Bill Clinton, for that last part. The first "black" president.

66. That fluidity of pronouns has made aspects of an editor's life easy. Used to be you had to find all kinds of workarounds, then the he or she or s/he nonsense, and making sure for every man example, there was a woman example.

To hell with all that now. I can use they however I want, even with a singular, but I don't.

I've been through four editions to date of the Chicago Manual of Style, and AP for decades. Some aspects of capitalization remain for a reason.

Saying Democrat party is the equivalent now of saying I'm MAGA. It used to be cute.

Now it's intentionally lighting a match.

Have at it, moronn [sic].

I don't know who Kamala Harris thinks her constituency is, but I wish she would go the ---- away.

61. It's matter of grammar. If you want to portray yourself as semiliterate, which most MAGA folks must be, go no further.

The "Democrat Party" Label

Grammar Rule: Using "Democrat" as an adjective (such as saying "Democrat platform" or "Democrat policy") is considered grammatically incorrect by standard usage guides.
Political Context: According to Associated Press News, the use of "Democrat Party" as a truncated label has a long history among political opponents. Wikipedia notes that while it began neutrally, it has functioned as a deliberate political epithet or slurring shorthand since the 1940s and 1950s (promoted by figures like Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Republican National Committee) to intentionally omit the suffix "-ic".

Can you thank a unionized teacher for good use of "tautology"?

Probably not for "Democrat party," though, or any other kind of teacher. That's just where modern learnin' got ya.

Over the decades, in cities from Chicago and Milwaukee to Newark and Los Angeles, working-class Black and Latino parents have consistently sought options outside traditional district schools. Public charter schools, in particular, have emerged as one of the clearest and most successful expressions of this desire for alternatives. For many communities, charters have offered not only higher expectations and stronger results, but also the chance to build schools that reflect the values, cultures, and aspirations of the families they serve.

More recently, microschools have become an essential option for Black and indigenous communities, along with families with special needs learners. These small, often community-run learning environments blend personalized instruction with flexibility and autonomy. Many are launching with the support of funding models such as Education Savings Accounts.

For progressives truly committed to equity and self-determination, school choice and educational freedom are not a departure from our values; they are expressions of them.

I'm not endorsing anything. I happened to read about this stuff for work, no offense to thin-skinned trust-fund babies. I hear there's one around here.

Some useful information. There are progressive approaches to the issue known as school choice.

From the Center for Reinventing Public Education:

Christ, I was posting new guitar videos of Reitze on his scooter the other day.

Maybe I am the weird one.

No one has ever said to me, DBT2, how do you know about DethSpud and JeffnDenmark and 101Chairborne, or watching Babbles or MaryTylerWhore flame out?

No one.

Ever.

48. I did. Soon as I came back here. And I've done it numerous times since, because seniority seems important to some.

How's that cinnamon ring working for you? I've been meaning to ask. I still don't know what one is.

It's funny. A few months ago you said I said too much about my life. Now you're fascinated again.

Tell me more about how your French forbears came here and built New Orleans and Louisiana ... with slave and Native labor.

You know why the verandas were built, don't you? It wasn't just to cool off.