Yup, just a variation on the upside down theme of religious freedom that Alito decreed in Hobby Lobby.
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Look at all those sagging wrinkles. Gotta wonder whether that’s intentional…
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They’ve already authorized (directed?) the state legislature to do that for them.
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Just pump the exhaust directly into his office/home. Imagine he might whistle a different tune under those circumstances.
No, it’s just arithmetic. Settle down.
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The days of the “American frontier” and “Go West, young man.” Mining, lumbering, farming, railroad work, and as permanent towns and cities grew, the work that sustains towns and cities – everything from liveries, blacksmiths, and general stores to teaching, preaching and factory jobs. Certainly a lot of single young men (and a few single young women) went “Westward, Ho!” But so did whole families, nuclear and extended – the story in one of my family lines. First “West” meant Wi, then MN, then Montana, then WA and CA.
My first impulse is to ask “why go to college if no desire to learn stuff?” But then I recall a handful of folks who either pursued Mrs. degrees, or merely wanted to expand their partying repertoire. So, yeah…
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A chunk of mine skipped the Great Plains entirely and went to Oregon just before the California gold rush. Others tried Iowa and skipped the rest of the plains. And yes they took the entire family. The most recent immigrants stopped in Chicago for a generation and then headed to Alaska, joining everyone else.
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I think there are those folks (and I taught at a state university that’s a very good school, but known for its undergrad partying), and there are the people whose parents told them they’re supposed to go to college because reasons, and the crew that’s ascendant now – the ones who see college solely as vocational school with more majors. One of those students told me it was my job to give him writing skills, not do all this critical thinking business he didn’t like.
I was raised by committed idealists, and went to college entirely because I thought it would be awesome to know more things. I was astonished at first to find out about all those other, incurious sorts. I was just bummed I couldn’t have like 12 majors.
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Had to laugh at this. My dad was a math teacher at a large(-ish) urban high school.
He used to remark how frustrating it was that so many people (read, parents) seemed to view education as a transitive process, as in “I give you something” when in fact all a teacher could do was to help someone to learn. Those who want to learn will do so with or without a teacher; those who don’t want to be bothered will not learn regardless of teaching excellence.
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Disillusioned trumpists will probably stay home. The ones I know took their maga stickers off their trucks. Even the perennial lawn signs are down. Most won’t vote Dem - but many could: there’s nothing Americans like to do more than vote against the party in power when they are suffering economically… As for Hispanic voters, we saw a huge shift toward Dems in last years gubernatorial election. Just a year earlier it was a big shift toward trumpy. This year the animosity toward repubs is even more palpable.