Two questions demanded a solution final week through the second Donald Trump impeachment proceedings. Fascinated by the phenomenon of fascism’s combat for a agency foothold in what as soon as was democracy’s fortress, few had missed spherical one final 12 months.
This time round, many watched little or no, together with the ultimate vote. In spite of everything, nobody wants the torture of a entrance row seat to see what occurs when supposedly good males cower within the face of authoritarianism and thuggery, deathly afraid to denounce it?
Me? I selected merely to learn the obtainable accounts.
That led to the invention of the Twitter encounter involving MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and Ted Cruz, the Elsie from Texas.
‘It’s harking back to Shakespeare [in] that it is filled with sound and fury, and but signifying nothing,’ Cruz declared—declaimed?—not for the primary time quoting the Bard to indicate off his Harvard schooling.
‘No, that’s Faulkner,’ Mitchell tweeted in response.
‘Until Faulkner predates #Macbeth,’ a newspaper editor set her proper, ‘@tedcruz wins this spherical.’
“Methinks,” Cruz returned to Twitter to show the knife within the wound, ‘she doth protest an excessive amount of.’
For the report, William Faulkner’s 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury borrowed its title from the Stratford-on-Avon maestro.
Thank God that right here there are nonetheless some individuals who learn greater than the Specific and Guardian comedian strips. And possibly the legends on Web memes.
However the level I’m making is, I believe, necessary. Your schooling by no means stops, not so long as you’ll be able to—and do!—learn.
For example, on the Web you’ll be able to study that linguist Stephen Krashen has propounded a Monitor Idea. Based on him, while you study any language, you develop inside your head a form of appendix with a algorithm. For those who say, see or hear one thing that contravenes a kind of guidelines, inside your head, a bell goes off.
Spoiler alert: there’s a sports activities presenter on CNC3 whose alarm is on the fritz.
Final week, that channel reported that ‘The Leeward Islands Hurricanes beat the Barbados Tridents by 4 wickets to win by three balls to spare’.
The error is comprehensible; leaving it uncorrected says one thing unflattering concerning the presenter.
Particularly as on the next day, he added this to the pot: ‘…opener Kieran Powell struck 94 runs because the Leeward Islands Hurricanes set the Guyana Jaguars 244 for 9 to win within the Super50 Cup at this time’.
And he additionally let that stand! Possibly he loses it throughout hurricanes!
Not amused? Properly, the horse wasn’t of a wholly totally different color once I learn the Specific’ Michelle Loubon’s account of Andrea Bharatt’s funeral on-line on Saturday. That tickled me pink.
Right here is the exact extract:
Andrea’s ardour for the color pink was ubiquitous in a preponderance of pink and white floral wreaths, pink and white teddy bears, pink bobbing balloons and pink buntings.
That was in black and white so clearly each her ears and her editors let her down!
However allow us to return to the impeachment listening to to underline simply how far-reaching is the malaise.
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You’ll have heard concerning the a number of gems from the Trump defence attorneys.
Right here’s a pattern:
“And you’ll not hear any member of the crew representing former President Trump say something, however within the strongest doable manner denounce the violence of the rioters and people who breached the Capitol, the very delicate of our democracy, actually the image that flashes on tv everytime you’re making an attempt to elucidate that we’re speaking about the US, prompt image.”
Verbatim! That’s the transcript! Mr Bruce Castor makes even Wade ‘MBA’ Mark look not too unhealthy!
In T&T, he and that entire defence crew would qualify as ‘canine attorneys’—solely ok to signify you in case your pothound occurred to chunk somebody on the street.
There was additionally Majority Chief Chuck Schumer’s early lapsus ‘incitement to resurrection.’ After which, when it was throughout, he was at it once more, asking the presiding officer to adjourn the impeachment session ‘sine die’.
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I do know they’re not within the Capitol in Rome. However absolutely that’s not C-NAY DIE however C-NAY DEE-A?
There’s no complicated C-NN and C-CN, although. The American community’s advert breaks supply, inter alia, {golfing} suggestions.
The present line-up options an teacher, who discusses ‘the acronym PGA’. His spiel ends this manner: ‘By doing these three acronyms, posture, grip and alignment, you’ll immediately develop into…’ one thing or the opposite.
Elicits only a giggle, not a guffaw. Is PGA an acronym, ‘a phrase shaped from the preliminary letters of different phrases’?
Or is it an acrostic, ‘a poem, phrase puzzle or different composition through which sure letters in every line type a phrase or phrases’?
Possibly it’s merely a mnemonic, ‘a tool equivalent to a sample of letters, concepts or associations which assists in remembering one thing’.
I’ve forgotten. However I do know for sure that posture, grip and alignment are NOT ‘three acronyms’.
The specialty of one other teacher within the previous line-up was the Leapfrog Ladder Drill.
Each on the display and within the dictionary, ‘leapfrog’ is a single phrase. So it takes some doing to determine how Monsieur got here up, in his spiel, with ‘leapt frog’.
Nevertheless, neither of them is a sports activities editor. Their space of competence is golf instruction, a wholly totally different ballgame.
The lesson in all of that is, in fact, as the big printed poster in my youngsters’s pre-school learn all these years in the past: lisez, lisez toujours; il en reste toujours quelque selected. (By no means cease studying. You at all times get one thing out of it.)
As a result of, to get again to the opening questions, while you get proper right down to it, what efficient benefit does the (wo)man who doesn’t learn have over the (wo)man who can’t learn?
And, very related right here, what does it imply for tomorrow’s media that the numbers of each teams are seemingly on the rise?
