We needed tough lessons as children. An occasional playground fight was expected as the norm, and if we complained to our mother that we were being teased, we were treated to this glorious aphorism: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” My mom used to say that all the time, one of the seemingly endless adages she had at her disposal to deal with any of life’s problems. To this day I think long and hard about the practical application that dogma had on my life.
The idea that you could actually choose whether or not to be hurt by words: that was huge for me. Even though it has been repeated ad nauseam for generations, “sticks and stones” really is a powerful bit of philosophy to a kid. That’s one of the great things about being a parent: you can spout nothing but clichés, and yet, to your child, you come off as one of the great thinkers in Western culture.
–from MEAN DADS FOR A BETTER AMERICA, by Tom Shillue
Thank you for reminding me. I wanted to talk about our post-show hangout in Memphis and here it is:
“Catching them young”
Why American teachers are all Leftist.
‘Fascists’ are Socialists, Benito Mussolini was a disillusioned Socialist when he created Facism.
Which is named after the Roman symbol ‘fasces’, which originally appeared in the Greek colony of Crete.
It symbolized ‘collectivism’.
Discussion with GROK;-
“Whom was Benito Mussolini’s education advisor that determined that fascism starts in the classroom?”
The education advisor (and key figure) who shaped Benito Mussolini’s fascist education policies—effectively determining that fascism must start in the classroom through indoctrination of youth—was Giovanni Gentile.
Gentile, a philosopher often called the “philosopher of fascism” by Mussolini himself, served as Mussolini’s Minister of Public Education from late 1922 to 1924. In that role, he implemented the Gentile Reform (Riforma Gentile) of 1923, which Mussolini described as the “most Fascist reform.” This sweeping overhaul restructured Italy’s ...
“Lolo Pass”
Between Montana and Idaho.
We went on a scoot ride last summer through the Lolo pass of the Bitterroot range. Ele. 5233 ft
As we crossed into Idaho, at the summit of the pass, we were coming around a turn at 50 MPH, and in the right ditch we saw this. A Mama moose and a set of twin calves, scared the crap out of us and the Moose.
I was digging through video of the ride and I pulled these pictures out.
