As State’s ISD Takeover Ended, Presidio Boy “Christened” New Suspended Ceiling Tile

By Dan Bodine

 

In Texas, in some cases when state education officials take over a failing school district for failure to educate its students to certain, set, performance standards, they will assign a “Monitor” to work with the local board of trustees in carrying out the state’s procedural orders for improving the district. [Courtesy Image]

There’s more’n a few Texas oldtimers in a little bit of a shock, surely, learning Fort Worth ISD recently has been taken over by the state for low student performances. Ain’t that a kick!? Has Dick Tracy signed off on this dastardly thing yet?

I think a blowback argument, too, could be made using the Cowboys’ mediocre performances so far this football season. Argue Fort Worth is too close to Dallas. The Dumpster Fire’s “Smoke Blowover Effect” at work, it is. All these years. Hee, hee! Dem Cowboys awful, yes! Continue reading

U.S. Cultural War crosses Rubicon in 2016 Election

By Dan Bodine

 

Whoo! Beat-up some, but I’ve new strength, too!

What vocificious angst of a cultural war among us Election 2016 has delineated is everybody‘s got something to say now. And is saying it! Which means, Yes, we’re here, folks! We’ve crossed the Rubicon! Open the champagne bottles! Empire-building of biblical literalism is getting a shorter lease again!

Conservative white Christian Americans — especially the deep-pocketed, radical, Anglo fundamentalists who wish to strangle the Bible with literalist interpretations (for their own riches) — no longer dominate our voting electorate. Continue reading