An ish. An ish. An ish, an ish, an ish, an ish, an iiiiiiiish! (To the tune of the 'Pink Panther' theme.)
The February edition of The Last Word is now pub, and you can read it and bip! This ish discusses a man stealing coffee from Kroger, people ruining board games (usually with beer or vomit), the decline of chemistry sets, and more!
So blast on over here...
https://www.scribd.com/document/622478759/The-Last-Word-2-2023
If that doesn't work, slink over yonder...
There's no hope for this country.
I just read on one of my Reddit forums that an adult was carded at a grocery store just to buy glue.
That's right. Glue. That stuff we used in kindergarten.
In America, school board applications lose schools. In Kentucky, schools lose school board applications!
Kentucky - the state with one of the most perennially authoritarian and generally broken school systems - strikes again! Fayette County Schools (Lexington) has lost an application to fill a vacant school board seat. This seat became vacant because of a resignation in November, and the board must now take applications to fill it. An application was dropped off at the school board building, but the superintendent said that "we have been unable to locate their paperwork anywhere in the building." The superintendent admitted that this candidate "would have been eligible if not for the error by our administrative team."
After my experiences with the Campbell County Schools - and with the abusive behavior of schools nationwide in the past few years - it's hard to know whether the school district's stupidity is accidental or deliberate.
Every few years, we read about some school suspiciously losing students' completed standardized tests and forcing them to waste time retaking the test. In 2018, schools in Bessemer, Alabama, lost the grades of numerous 8th grade students and forced them to repeat the year. The students weren't told they were held back until a week before the start of the next school year. There is no limit on what school districts can get away with, and they always hire the best attorneys to shield them from accountability. So what's a mere mortal to do? Stink?
The American Academy of Pediatrics has already forfeited the privilege of being taken seriously, as it has been one of the leading voices for forcing 2-year-olds to wear masks. Forced masking of anyone would have been considered a human rights violation before 2020, and this principle should still stand. If it doesn't stand, it's not a principle. Principles don't change just because of a pandemic.
The AAP's credibility continues to swirl down the crapper, as now it is advocating that children have weight loss surgery to treat obesity. Just a few years ago, this surgery was considered radical - even dangerous - even for adults. I have known people who sadly have died from it. Yet the AAP now wants it used for children.
New AAP guidelines recommend aggressive drug therapy to treat obesity in kids as young as 12. This guidance suggests the surgery for kids as young as 13.
The drug recommendation shows the disproportionate influence that Big Pharma has in the AAP. This story also displays the AAP's lack of common sense. Instead of drugs and radical surgery, we should instead be trying to make sure children receive the right kinds of food and the right amount of exercise. Yet the AAP is allied with COVID disastrists who promoted lockdowns, which discouraged exercise by forcing children into their homes.
The AAP's new guidance represents the further Ritalinization of medicine.
However, obesity drugs that the AAP loves so much have been in short supply because of videos on TikTok - which is owned largely by the Chinese Communist Party - promoting them.
At this rate, it wouldn't be surprising if weight loss surgery is mandatory 20 years from now.
There are still some enjoyable 'Sesame Street' segments out there that I recall fondly but have never found online or on a DVD. However, here's one we can finally cross off that list now that it's surfaced...
That skit featuring Maria, David, and Bob reportedly first aired in 1975. Bob and David portray waiters at a fine restaurant, and Maria is their beleaguered supervisor. This is one of few segments where Bob had a mustache. I was really hoping this sketch was the one in which Maria spoke a famous line that was repeated for the rest of my childhood. Well, I got my wish.
That famous line: "What is the meaning of this?"
I remember many times when I was growing up, somebody would ask, "What is the meaning of this?" Inevitably, somebody would always follow with, "As Maria would say."
I also remember being somewhat frightened by this segment. The characters kept dropping trays and dishes and falling onto the ground, leading me to fear that they might be injured.
But good for David for quitting his waiter job! Now the world knows you can't walk all over David!
Last night, I went to the New Year's celebration on Fountain Square. And when I say it was tame, man, do I mean it was tame! I mean it like a dictionary! A big ol' Webster's!
But the TV networks have forfeited the privilege of me staying home to watch their garbledy-goop, because of their totalitarianism of the past couple years.
At least when I was on Fountain Square, I did detect the airy vapors of a certain herb. Also, before midnight, I saw 2 - count 'em, 2 - people who were in a festive enough mood that they bubbled.
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