Monthly Archives: January 2022

from Flor-uh-duh Bob’s EZ Entrepreneurial Guide to Charter Riches!

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

As a would-be artist of the con, you follow in a great American tradition going all the way back to John D. Rockefeller’s father, the Dr. Marvel medicine show guy who traveled the West selling Everything Cures. Many possibilities for … Continue reading →

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Treasonous Conspiracy at the Highest Levels of the Trump Maladministration

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

I rarely share news stories on this blog, but this one is REALLY important. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/is-doj-investigating-the-forged-documents-trump-used-in-his-coup-attempt/ar-AASWwCM?ocid=msedgntp

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What CRT Actually Means: a Public Service Announcement

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

You have doubtless been reading in the news a lot about Critical Race Theory, or CRT. It’s the latest “enemy within” for Republican agitprop (propaganda used to agitate, or work up, the base). But as usual, these Republican “leaders” and … Continue reading →

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IQ 45’s Arizona Rally, 1/16/2022, a Review

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

Trump on the stump with his chumps In Arizona today, Trump gave another of his blithering, stupid speeches, this one to kick off his campaign to win the midterms and then, again, the Presidency. If you didn’t hear this speech, … Continue reading →

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News from the Near Future

Posted on January 9, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

NB: All statistics in this essay are from Pew Research unless otherwise noted. Republicans face an existential crisis, but they have a plan. First, young people don’t share their ideologies (racism, ultranationalism, laissez-faire Capitalism, fundamentalist Christianity). Consider Millennials. Only 12 percent … Continue reading →

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Education Reform as Religious Cultism

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

Numerology is pseudoscience involving numbers. Lots of Americans, for example, believe in what they call angel numbers—what you see when look at a clock and it reads 1:11 or 2:22 or 3:33, etc. Each of these repeated sequences of the … Continue reading →

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What K-12 Textbooks Are Like Now: A Sample lesson on the Declaration of Independence

Posted on January 4, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

[Begin lesson.] We hold (Did you know that Thomas Jefferson invented an automatic letter copying device? It’s pictured here. Higher-Order Thinking: how are letters different from email?) these truths (Cross-curricular Connections–Math: Truth tables are used in logic. Al-Farabi, pictured here, … Continue reading →

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