“Ever wonder what your children might be learning when they hit the books in the New York City public schools? A kinder, gentler definition of jihad. It really means "to do one's best to resist temptation and overcome evil. An error-filled version of global geography. The equator actually passes through Florida, Texas and Arizona. A saga of a swashbuckling hero of today who can be compared to ancient historical heroes dating to the Trojan War: Indiana Jones. The world of 21st century textbook education is a learning laboratory in which agendas, ideologies and errors all too often trump balance, accuracy and fairness.”
So begins an interesting article at the NY Daily News website. You can link to it at http://www.mostnewyork.com/front/story/45580p-42789c.html. I could go on and list some of the stupid idiocy being put out as “education” but I couldn’t decide which examples to include and which ones didn’t make the cut. It’s better to read the article and make up your own mind. Pogo says: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
On another note, the Sunday New York Times reports that Pseudo-Commissioner “Clueless Bud” Selig will meet with the living members of the Hall of Fame next month to discuss whether Pete Rose should be let back in baseball. I can only think of the article Bill James wrote in The Historical Baseball Abstract about whether Shoeless Joe Jackson should be allowed into the Hall of Fame. After concluding that there can be no dispute that Jackson was one of the greatest baseball players, James goes on to state that he should be admitted to the Hall of Fame, but it is only a question of priorities. He then goes on to list numerous players, the list becoming ever more improbable, who perhaps should be admitted and have been overlooked, as well as people whose contributions to the game were not made on the field, like Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mrs. Lou Gehrig, the guy who wrote Take Me Out to the Ballgame, etc. He then concludes, “when every honest ballplayer who has ever played the game, at any level from Babe Ruth ball through the majors, when every coach, writer, umpire and organist who has helped to make baseball the wonderful game that it is rather than trying to destroy it with the poison of deceit, when each has been given his due, then I think we should hold our noses and make room for Joe Jackson to join the Hall of Fame. It is only right.”
Ditto for Pete Rose. That’s just my opinion. You could disagree, but you’d be wrong.
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