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subbing in Alaska
 
Tell Me About It.
Now, you must remember this.
Conservatives are infinitely bad.
 
INFINITELY bad !?
Yes.  That's right.
Conservatives are INFINITELY bad.
 
So, then,
the liberals are the good ones.
No. They're three times worse.
 
Three times worse than INFINITELY bad !?
Yes. Approximately.
 
I See.
So, in accordance with this proportion,
I'll talk about three subbing experiences
at the anchorage school district
with the conspiracy connected liberal educators,
and one subbing experience in tok, AK, in the bush
with their useful idiots
the fanatical, ignorant, religious right.
 
I'll do the liberals first.
 
OK
The first thing you need to know is that,
when you drive up to the anchorage school district,
they have a parking place right up front,
a reserved parking place right up there at the front door,
a parking place with higher priority than the handicapped spaces,
with a big, permanent, steel sign on it that says,
RESERVED
But it's not reserved for you.
 
Who's it reserved for ?
The Press.
 
I See.
Oh, yeah.
You see,
teachers are not very good at teaching.
In fact, teaching AND teachers are completely overrated.
 
"TEACHING" is glorified,
but, in reality, it's irrelevant.
Public school teachers are usually a hindrance to learning.
The emphasis should be on learning.
Students learn on their own.
This philosophy of education is called constructivism
and the idea is that students, or all people who learn anything,
construct their own learning.
They make sense of their world
and figure things out by themselves.
That's certainly been the case with Our Graduate Student.
Most of his learning has been done on his own.
Most of the time, like most students,
he found homework and assignments
to be sheer torture,
just hoops to be jumped through
before he could pick up the book he wanted to read
or do the fascinating activity he really found interesting.
 
Abe Lincoln taught himself.
Thomas Edison figured out everything by himself.
Bill Gates and Zuckerman dropped out of school.
Einstein failed out of school
and couldn't even get hired as a physics teacher,
but he discovered The Theory of Relativity.
Most high school students
know more about computers
than their teachers do.
Who needs public school teachers ?
Nobody.
They're overpaid babysitters and they don't do THAT well.
They waddle around and incite politically correct trouble,
and get paid very, very well for it.
Don't kid yourself.
That's one of their MYTHS
(the myth that they don't get paid extremely well.)
They're NOT good teachers.
Most of them are incompetent at subject matter anyway.
They struggle and many fail to pass basic proficiency tests,
like the cbest,
the california basic educational skill test,
which is an elementary school level test
of arithmetic (fractions, decimals, and percents) and English.
 
What teachers are good at is
PUBLIC RELATIONS !
They have everybody conned into their myths.
You've heard of the military/industrial complex ?
 
Sure.
Everybody has.
Everybody who was alive in the 60's.
It's all about THE PIGS,
the racist, imperialist, chauvanist, motherfucking white...
OK. OK. You've heard of it.
Well, I'm here to tell you about the
education/media/politics complex.
It's MUCH worse than civilizing the world
and all that bad stuff.
It's about America rotting from within.
Rotting with rotten lies.
The lies that teachers tell.
The lies the teachers tell in the classroom.
The lies the teachers tell to the media and politicians.
The lies that the media amplifies and repeats.
The lies that the politicians believe and turn into law.
 
Teachers could easily be replaced
by babysitters and security guards
who would cost much less and be much more effective.
 
The teachers went on strike one year
and the Anchorage Daily News ran a sympathetic story
about a teaching couple
who were living on spaghetti
because of the financial distress
of having been on strike for two days.
These are two people who'd been making at least $50,000/year, each,
for years.
Then, the Anchorage Daily News
(owned by the sacramento bee
and mcclatchy newspapers, by the way)
published the entire teacher pay scale on the back page.
They were clearly extremely well paid.
It wasn't clear whether the Daily News
was doing these things in an ironic sense, or not.
And, if so, why ?
Wouldn't it be better to just come out and say it straight,
"teachers are extremely well paid
and it's an outrageous stunt for this rich teaching couple
to be carrying on about living on spaghetti."
But they didn't.
It's doubtful if anybody got the irony, if irony was intended.
 
Their most popular satirical columnist,
whose name eludes me at the moment
(Mike Doolan ?),
took off for Australia for two weeks
the day after he wrote an column
that was not fully sympathetic to the teachers.
That's how afraid he was of the teachers, apparently.
Just like we're afraid to burn a koran
in this land of free speech,
the home of the free and the brave.
 
So, anyway, let's talk about three subbing experiences
for the anchorage school district
to illustrate the continued harassment of OUr Graduate Student
and the connectivity to the conspiracy.
 
Please Do.
The first one we'll talk about
was at east side high school, I think.
Our Graduate Student went to an assigned classroom
in the morning and found some rudely written lesson plans.
I can't remember the details.
Our Graduate Student found them insulting though,
and he had subbed so many classes
where no lesson plans were left (although required)
or with impossible or illogical or misleading lesson plans,
that he just decided to ignore them.
Then, just before the class began,
a vice principal came in, in a hurry and a huff
and with a rude attitude
and he asked where his lesson plans were and said,
"well, it doesn't matter. I can write them again.
The OTHER TEACHER in the classroom will be in charge."
There was no other teacher.
There was a young white girl in her twenties,
a teacher's aide.
She didn't say a word to Our Graduate Student
during the entire class period.
She spent the entire class period
braiding the hair of a senior into some kind of afro style.
The entire period.
She was "in charge" and that's all she did.
The whole period.
Of course, she WASN'T in charge.
Teachers aides are NEVER in charge.
It's THE LAW.
Our Graduate Student was responsible, as the teacher,
for anything that happened in that classroom.
But he just stood off to the side the entire period
and waited for the class to end.
Clearly, THAT was connected to the conspiracy.
They were fucking with Our Graduate Student,
whom they had never met,
because "they knew who he was."
He was the author of The 1982 Newsletters
that told the clueless bully rush limbaugh what to do.
Of course, the liberal fascist MYTH
was that Our Graduate Student was a racist.
So, that's why they pulled stunts like that.
Of course, Our Graduate Student is of the opinion that
that was completely inappropriate behavior
and completely inappropriate use of taxpayer money
and instructional time,
but that doesn't make him a racist.
So Our Graduate Student decided
never to take another assignment there.
 
But the next assignment we'll talk about was even worse.
It was a continuation school kind of situation.
It was a special school for students who were behavior problems.
It was an insane asylum.
They assigned him to a small room, just big enough for a table,
with three students or so, and they instructed him,
"You're not allowed to touch them.
WE can, but YOU can't."
After a few minutes, they came and took away two students,
leaving Our Graduate Student with one boy.
He was 7th, 8th, 9th grade. Something like that.
The boy just kept getting up and walking around
and clowning around and acting up and provoking Our Graduate Student,
but Our Graduate Student remembered his instructions.
The room was so small
that Our Graduate Student was sitting with his chair
backed up against the wall.
The student kept punching that wall,
closer and closer and closer to Our Graduate Student's head.
So Our Graduate Student just sat there,
considering his options and the whole situation.
"I'm sure I have the right to defend myself if touched,"
he considered.
"This is really weird. This feels like a setup
and I'm probably being videotaped.
I'm just gonna leave this kid alone
and let him pound the wall."
This was definitely connected to the conspiracy.
This was torture. It was psychological warfare.
They knew that Our Graduate Student
had just been jumped and attacked at edison hs in stockton.
But at the end of the school day,
Our Graduate Student observed even more madness.
Towards the end of the final period,
after that boy had been removed from the room,
Our Graduate Student stood by his door
and observed political warfare across the hallway.
Across the hall was a regular teacher there,
a young white male in his thirties maybe,
with a class full of these problem kids, 5th or 6th graders.
The final had just rung, but he was concluding
some final business with the class.
One boy, a stocky african american boy,
was very disruptive, and his ejected him from the class.
The boy went to a young white female teacher in her twenties
and said something to her
and she brought him back and told him to go back into the class.
This went on about three or four times.
I would hear the male teacher yell,
"GET OUT OF HERE ! I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE !"
The white girl teacher was in the hallway and heard this.
But she didn't go in and talk to the young male teacher,
who was clearly under a great deal of stress.
She just kept sending the boy back into that classroom
and listened and waited until the exasperated teacher
yelled in frustration and ejected the boy AGAIN !
"I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE !"
It was unbelievable what a little bitch she was.
It was truly like an insane asylum.
Screaming and yelling and nonsense,
teachers using students for their petty feuds.
That's the other side of
"traditional public schools," Dr. Ravitch.
Why you want to save THAT
and why you think THOSE teachers
should be treated with respect, I don't know.
It ain't Mrs. Ratliff out there.
It ain't no "Leave It To Beaver" world out there.
It ain't Opie's teacher teaching in those
"traditional public schools."
 
 
Always ask yourself,
"What Would Mrs. Ratliff Do?"
Mrs. Ratliff would work in a private school,
or a charter school.
Or maybe she would have gotten a doctorate in Education History.
I didn't see Mrs Ratliff in THAT school, Dr. Ravitch.
Not in that jungle.
Not in that war zone.
That was definitely connected to the conspiracy.
 
The thired experience we'll mention now
(maybe later someday we'll talk about others)
is when Our Graduate Student was called to sub
for a physical education teacher at an elementary school.
This was clearly an organized young teacher.
Her lesson plans were clear and understandable.
The students were to do rope climbing.
 
Now, Our Graduate Student had never done that
nor had he ever seen it done anywhere,
but he was an experienced sub.
The students knew what to do,
so he followed the lesson plan and the students' advice.
There were two thick manila ropes
that dangled from a crossbeam near the ceiling,
about 25' up,
and there was a bell there at the top for them to ring.
No the bottom of the rope was too high
for the students to reach,
and they told him that it was his job to lift them up.
 
So, he's supposed to pick up these pretty little girls
(third or fourth grade)
in their skimpy gym clothes
and hold them up and steady them
with their legs and ass dangling in his face ?
It smelled like trouble,
felt like a setup,
but the kids were sure that this was the routine.
That's the way the regular teacher did it.
He got through it somehow.
He can't really remember exactly how he did it.
Maybe he used a chair,
or maybe he was just really, really careful
about how he lifted them, and about minimizing contact.
There was one perky little cute blonde
who easily made it to the top.
She was the only student who did.
Our Graduate Student gave it a try
and was surprised to find out that he could do it easily.
It was scary up there, though, 25' or so in the air,
just holdin' onto a rope with your two hands.
And, at the top, you had to let go with one hand
in order to ring the bell.
But the whole thing felt a little like a setup,
like they were peeking through the doors
or had hidden cameras
just waiting for him to make one little mistake.
"Why do they have me here
picking up half naked little girls
when all I wanted to do was teach math and science,"
he thought.
So, those are 3 examples of his experiences
with the liberal anchorage school district.
 
Now, let's talk about the conservative rednecks in tok, alaska.
It's was more complicated
than the three liberal teaching experiences above, as I recall.
Like I said, those extreme conservatives are infinitely bad.
 
Teaching in tok
 
"This is as wacky a combination
as anyone might dream up" (The Langauge Police p. 162)
The population of tok, Alaska
according to the "2110 Rand McNally Road Atlas," is 1393.
It's the kind of town that would have been
saluted on "Hee Haw," and maybe it was
("Hee Haw" was a tv comedy in the 60's and 70's).
It's 74 miles from the Canadian border,
and a 317 mile drive from Anchorage.

Our Graduate Student was in Anchorage
in the Spring of 1991.
So that Spring, he made the drive to Fairbanks
to attend the teacher job fair
like he did the previous year.
There was one superintendent he kind of liked
(the superintendent of the Tok schools)
and he managed to have a chat with him.
So that Spring he went up to Tok to teach for several days.
That tok superintendent was of the opinion that
it spoke well of Our Graduate Student
that the Red Devil/Aniak crowd didn't like him.
 
He was told to pick something to teach about
so he thought it would be really interesting
to discuss The First Amendment, Freedom of Speech.
It's an extremely interesting subject.
I'm never cease to be amazed at how many people
just don't get it
and what kind of people they are,
like for example,
newspaper people, radio talk show hosts,
educators, politicians.
Like, you know, they put Galileo under house arrest
for the rest of his life
for speaking out and explaining
how the earth goes around the sun
and not the other way around
like the christian church taught.
That was an unpopular idea, but it was correct.
Similarly, Our Graduate Students ideas
in His 1982 Newsletters were unpopular with
the liberal fascists educators at sac state
and the liberal fascist politicians in sacramento.
 
Free Speech is an important and fascinating topic.
Everybody proudly says they're "for" Free Speech
because they're "good Americans."
But as soon as somebody says something they don't like,
they're all ready to shut them up somehow.
Sometimes they kill them or put them in jail.
They put Galileo under house arrest.
They've conspired against Our Graduate Student for 28 years,
and they've marginalized and impoverished him
and relentlessly attacked his character and tarnished his reputation.
 
Some speech should be prohibited.
The classic example is that it's unlawful to yell "FIRE !"
in a crowded theatre, unless there really is one
because someone might get hurt in the ensuing panic.
Other examples of prohibited speech are libel and slander
which damage a person's reputation
and can harm them in many ways, including
damaging their finances, career, and personal life.
On the other hand,
we do have the right to speak out and criticize people,
especially if such criticism is important for people to hear.
Consequently, speakers and writers have more leeway
in criticizing public figures such as politicians,
corporate leaders, educators, clergy.
Anyway, it's a fascinating topic.
It's an incredibly alive and dynamic subject
with constant tension between those
who want to be able to say whatever the hell they want,
whenever and wherever and however they want to say it 
on the one hand,
and those who want to restrict speech
that they tnink may be harmful or offensive or unpleasant
or distasteful, or that they just plain don't like.
 
Another fascinating aspect of "Free Speech"
is a consideration of what constitutes "speech."
Spoken words are speech and so is the written word.
What about plays and movies and music ?
What about art and sculpture ?
What about clothing ?
Do you think that wearing a hat or an armband to school
is a form of speech ?
 
Yeah, I...
SHUT UP !
IT IS NOT !
I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD ABOUT IT !
 
I'm sorry.
Excuse me.
I didn't mean to upset you.
But...why did you yell at me?
Oh, that wasn't me.
I didn't yell at you.
That was the baptist minister in tok yelling at you.
I just had a flashback.
He took control of my fingers
and yelled those words as you
the way he yelled those words
in the class where I was teaching
when we got to the topic of clothing
as a form of speech.
Hats, I think it was.
Yes. Yes, that was it. Hats.
Got they old guy yellin'.
They're loud, them retired baptist preachers.
 
So, Tell Us The Story.
You Went To Tok For A Week
And You Decided To Teach About Free Speech.
And The Regular Teacher Was
A Retired Baptist Minister ?
Yes, that's right.
Yeah, it's bible belt country up there,
or whatever part of the anatomy Tok is,
bein' way up there.
A button.
If the bible belt runs across the South,
then up there Tok must be button, a bible button.
So this loud, booming at the students retired baptist minister
says something to the students
about "a bunch of propaganda,"
just before he lets Our Graduate Student
teach his class about Freedom of Speech.
He looked and sounded a lot like
that old math teacher guy Our Graduate Student had to deal with
when he did his student teaching -
the one who took his bible to math class every day.
So, the first thing Our Graduate Student says to the students is,
"Is it an appropriate way to introduce a speaker to say
'ah, this is just a bunch of propaganda !'?"
The students agreed that it wasn't an appropriate way
to introduce a speaker.
(In California, in some schools in bad areas,
that's all teachers and administrators do all day -
they make sure students don't wear red or blue.
That's where 90% of everyone's time goes -
makin' sure kids don't wear red or blue.
No meaningful instruction takes place.
Any kid, of course, will become so fascinated and curious
about the obsession over red and blue,
that they'd want to wear those colors then.)
But this wasn't L.A. or stockton.
This was tok, AK, out in the middle of frozen tundra nowhere,
population 1393 where everybody knew everybody.
There were no gangs there.
The yellin' came from the baptist minister
when the topic got around to hats as a form of speech
because apparently the kids wanted to wear their hats
but weren't allowed to.
Of course, that could have been what the
fashionable-phrase-worshipping educatonists like to call
"the teachable moment."
Ah! the teachable moment, that only a "professional educator"
can fully, fully recognize, appreciate, and exploit -
only someone who has taken classes
at the traffic and credential stamping school
and has been ANOINTED as
(dum da da da de da !)
a teacher !
Yes, once your paper has been stamped
at the traffic and credential stamping school,
you have been anointed
and endowed with inalienable powers of instruction.
Some of the newly anointed find themselves compelled
in haste to the supply store to buy
some papers and pencils,
henceforth to lament that they are underpaid
and have even paid for classroom supplies
out of their own pocket.
It turns out to be the best thirteen dollars
they'll ever spend
for all the public relations benefits it accrues
and for its contribution to the
MYTHOLOGY
of
the
(dum de de da da dum)
teacher !

So, there were only a couple of places to eat dinner in Tok,
and when Our Graduate Student goes there,
there's this big, hairy, bearded guy
right inside the door who thumped on his bible
and said to Our Graduate Student,
THIS
is what we're all about up here !
He literally thumped on his bible.
He was a big, bible-thumpin' redneck.
Literally.
 
So, I Guess They Were Lettin' Our Graduate Student Know
How Things Were Up There.
I guess.
So, anyway, Our Graduate Student goes in
and joins the table there
and there's the town matriarch holding forth.
She was a grand woman of plus-years
trying to inspire her listeners to re-read yasir arafat
with new adoring eyes and an open mind.
He eyes rolled with adoration as she sighed
and expressed her admiration for arafat.

Isn't arafat That American-hating, christian-killing
muslim fundamentalist terrorist ?
That's right.


It's Kind Of Crazy
That They Were Glarin' At Our Graduate Student
And Puttin' Him In His Place An' Makin' Sure
He Knew He Was In Bible Country,
While She Got To Hold Forth
About Her Admiration For
The muslim fundamentalist terrorist yasir arafat.
That's right.
You see, it almost seemed
that Our Graduate Student wasn't welcome there,
that, to them, he was just one of these educated Northerners
talkin' all these crazy propaganda ideas
about this unAmerican notion called Freedom of Speech,
and that he was being given a clear warning
to watch his p's and q's up there
in God-fearing, bible reading, christian country.
Then he goes in and he hears this pro-palestinian,
pro-muslim, pro-terrorist, pro-arafat talk,
and he's like "What's wrong with this picture here ?"
Even though Freedom of Speech
is about as fundamental an American idea as can be,
Our Graduate Student was gettin' the glare.
And even though yasir arafat
is about as fundamentally anti-American as they come,
the town white woman of plus-years
is holding forth with rolling eyes and sighs.
 
What Was Our Graduate Student's Conclusion ?
Oh, that's a whole nother lecture,
or a whole another lecture, however you say it.
It has to do with how the United States
is a hierarchical society,
where some people are much more equal than others.
At the top of the hierarchy are white woman.
They're the most equal of all.
They're always right. They can do and say anything.
They always get their way. They're entitled. Completely.
Below them are the black men.
They are similiarly entitled
except for things that the white women don't like.
Below them are black and other minority women.
Below them are children.
Below them is the animal kingdom
with their own hierarchy
(dogs and cats on top all the way down
to snakes and lizards and germs on the bottom)
Below them is the devil.
And, finally, below the devil is the white man.
Now, to be fair, there is some overlapping,
and there are some exceptions.
The o.j. trial is an excellent example of this.
In that case, from the black woman's perspective (the jury)
the famous black man was higher than
the white woman whose head he sliced off.
And, also, some white men can be elevated
by becoming liberal, politically correct sycophants
who kiss the asses of the white women and black men
and worship at the altar of political correctness.
With all the exceptions and special cases
it really get quite complicated
and it's a field of study all its own.
Careers are built on it.
The white men, being on the bottom,
kick each other around.

The Way The Big Bible-Thumpin' Redneck
And The Boomin' Baptist Minister Teacher
Were Pushin' Around Our Graduate Student ?
That's right.
But they couldn't push around
the plus-years old white woman matriarch
'cause she's at the top of the hierarchy
and can say anything and do anything.
She's always right. She's entitled.
She can do no wrong. 
 
You're Right.
"This is as wacky a combination
as anyone might dream up" (The Lanauge Police" p. 162)

Oh, it gets wackier.
 
That's Impossible !
No, it isn't.
Listen to this.
The school superintendent of tok,
the guy who invited Our Graduate Student up there,
was an out and out ATHEIST.
He didn't even hide it !
 
My Goodness !
That's Worse Than Bein' For Free Speech !
Isn't It ?
I reckon.
It's pretty bad
for a bible thumpin', christian fundamentalist community,
that's for sure !
I don't think they'd be aglarin' at him though
ifn a he came to the diner.
 
Why's That ?
Well, they were payin' him a nice fat salary
to come all the way up from harvard
to teach their kids.
 
An' He Didn't Even Have Enough Sense
To Pretend He Wasn't An Atheist !?
He Doesn't Sound Very Smart To Me !
Any fool should know
you gotta pretend not to be an atheist
when you go to bible-thumpin' country.
That's right.
Besides, you can't be that smart, if you're an atheist.
 
How's That ?
Well, nobody can be sure there's no God !
But, that's what atheists say.
They say there's no God.
That's what they believe.
They're certain about it.
That's what "atheist" means.
You see, "theism" means believin' in God.
"a"-"theism" meanse believin' there's no God,'
bein' certain there's no God.
That's what atheists believe.
They believe that there is definitely no God.
They are sure that God doesn't exist
and never did exist
and never will exist.
How they know that, I don't know.

They Must Know A Awful Lot A Stuff
Up There In Harvard, Huh ?
Stuff Ordinary Simple Folk Like U n Me'll Never Get To Know,
Prolly.
Doncha Think ?
Do You Think Our Graduate Student Will Learn All That Stuff
In Graduate School
About How They Learned There Ain't No God
An' Never Was
An' Never Will Be
Forever An' Ever ?
But I Just Got One Question, Though.
They Say That "God Is Dead."
Now How In The Heck Could God Go And Die
If He Never Ever Existed In The First Place ?
I Don't Even Think God Could Do That.
Could He ?
Very Easily.
Anyway, look.
The fact is, nobody can be sure one way ner t'other.
Even evolution history an' the "Big Bang"
don't say nothin' 'bout whether there's a God or not.
It just tells us about scientific history,
not how it all got started or who started it.
Fact is, the correct position
fer an educated harvard fella
who don't take a hankerin to the bible
is to say he's an agnostic.
"gnostic" means one who knows.
"a-gnostic" means one who doesn't know.
And the fact is nobody knows whether there's a God or not.
Any intelligent, harvard educated fella oughtta know that.
Nobody knows.
Even if they think they know, they don't.

But Our Graduate Student Believes In God, Doesn't He ?
Yes, he does.
But he knows that he doesn't know for sure.
But he also knows that he doesn't know that there is no God,
so he sure as heck ain't gonna be no atheist,
sayin' he knows there ain't no God.

But what he does know
is that them bible thumpin' rednecks up thar in tok
didn't want him to be ateachin' their kids
that they had the right to speak their minds
and express themselves here in America.
An' he knows that them bible thumpers
paid that atheist from harvard good money to teach their kids,
and he knows that that grand woman of plus-years
was free as a bird to get all mouthy and goofy
about how much she adored yasir arafat,
an' even roll her eyes, to boot.

OK, We Know That Our Graduate Student Believes In God.
What Does He Believe About The Bible ?
Well, Our Graduate Student didn't go to harvard
like that atheist superintendent up in tok
who was gettin' paid real well
by them redneck bible thumpers to teach their kids.
So, he don't really know fer sure 'bout that thar bible.
But one a them real highly educated people,
maybe from Cambridge or someplace high-falutin' like that,
named Richard Dawkins
refers to the bible as,
"the origin myth of a particular set
of Bronze Age desert tribesmen"
("The Greatest Show On Earth", 2009, p. 107).

That seems reasonable
because evolutions is a fact.
"some theories are beyond sensible doubt,
and we call them facts" (ibid, p. 10).
The bible contradicts evolution, which is a fact,
so that means the bible is neither true nor factually accurate.
Therefore it's a myth or a story.
It may have meaningful purpose.
There might be a moral to the story of the bible.
And, that moral might be called "true" or good.
But that's a different meaning of the word "true"
that could be misleading.
To say that "the moral of a story is true"
is not the same as saying that "the story is true."

For example, you could fabricate a story
about someone who gossiped
and make the story turn out
that the gossiper suffered from her gossiping,
not the gossipee.
Then you could say that
"the moral of the story is that it's bad to
gossip bad things about people to spite them."
And then people could say
that the moral of the story was true.
But that is not the same thing as
saying that the story is true.
The story is not true.
The story is made up.
It is fiction.

But, again, we're moving Mount Everest
with a teaspoon.
I shouldn't have to explain this.
Any child knows what it means when they say,
"But, grandpa, is that story really true ?"
They want to know if the events in the story
REALLY happened in real life,
or if it was just a story
made up for entertainment or instruction.

Any child knows that.
Jesus said to be like the little children.
Be HONEST.

I recently attended a church
where they published a little sermon exactly like that
and it made Our Graduate Student quite angry.
In the sermon, "grandpa" replied to the child
that the story the child was asking about
"may not be factual,
but it most certainly was true."
That's doublespeak.
We all know what the child meant
when he or she asked if the story was really true.
The child was asking whether the events of the story
really happened in real life
or whether the story was made up
for some purpose like entertainment or moral education.
The reply was deceitful.

Look, I know it's an uncomfortable thought
to consider that the bible is a myth.
Sometimes it takes courage to face uncomfortable truths.
Be courageous.
All is not lost.
Western Civilization was built on biblical morals,
not on the bible itself.
Western Civilization won't crumble
just because we've discovered
that the bible is a collection of mythical morality tales.
The Constitution of the United States
is the document our society is based on,
and it's based on a social contract among citizens,
not on the bible.
The contract is one based on self-determination
whereby citizens freely give up some of their freedoms
and give some of those rights and powers
to a government they chose
in order to form a better and safer society.
Our society and government are not dependent
on the bible being true.
Our moral foundation need not be lost.
To the extent that our moral foundation
is founded on the moral principles of the bible, that's OK.
It's doesn't matter that the bible is just a myth.
We took those morals and encoded them in our laws.
Accept the truth. Accept the facts.
Evolution is a fact.
Evolution is true.
The bible certainly appears to be a myth.
Could it be the word of God ?
Who knows ? Our Graduate Student is an agnostic.
He knows that he doesn't know a lot of things.
But he also knows about the duck test,
and he knows that the evidence for evolution is overwhelming.

So, It Was OK For Those Bible Thumping Rednecks In tok
To Have An Atheist Schools Superintendent
And A Muslim-Terrorist-Loving Matriarch,
But Not Our Constitution Teaching Graduate Student ?
What's The Matter ?
They Were Afraid Of The Kind Of People
Their Children Would Turn Out To Be
If Our Graduate Student Taught Them The U.S.Constitution ?
That's funny.
That reminds me of the question they asked Our Graduate Student
several years later back in california
when Our Graduate Student was interviewing
for a teaching position at some jr. high.

"What kind of people do you want your students to be ?"
they asked him.
He was kind of stumped by that one.
I mean, Our Graduate Student goes into these interviews
ready to talk about teaching math, science, and social studies.
How pathetically naive !
Little does Our Graduate Student understand
the grand, grand grandeur and vastness of teaching !
Remember ! If you can read, thank a teacher !
If you can eat, thank a teacher !
If you can fart, thank a teacher !
If you can poop, thank a teacher !
If you can...

OK, OK, I Get It.
Teachers Are Wonderful.
Teachers are more than wonderful !
They're the very Essence of Being,
and whatever kind of people students turn out to be,
that's because of thier teacher.
Their teacher MADE THEM who they are.

Our Graduate Student goes into these interviews
thinkin' he's there to teach math or science,
two subjects that have been in critical shortage
of qualified teachers in the U.S. FOREVER !
How plebeian his thoughts !
How vastly he underestimates the teaching profession !
Teachers are there to MAKE PEOPLE !
So, they ask Our Graduate Student
what kind of people he wants his students to be
and he's totally perplexed.
He's like, "Huh ? What ? Umm...What kind of people !??"
It was a classic case of bait and switch.
He goes in there responding to an ad for math and science teachers.
What they REALLY wanted was a PEOPLE MAKER,
preferably a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people maker
because that would beef up their racial-hiring quotas.
So Our Graduate Student is thinking,
"Well, they can be whatever kind of people they want to be.
This is America. They're free. It's up to them.
Or maybe their parents and extended family
and community and maybe the church they may belong to.
I just wanna teach physics. Math, science.
He didn't know what to say.
He didn't really care what they did in their spare time.
It was none of his business.
What was his business was how they behaved in the classroom,
so he said,
"What kind of people I want them to be ?
You mean...in the classroom ?
I want them to be professional."
Whew ! That was a close call.
He mighta got an "F" in interviewing
if he couldn't come up with an answer.
Professional. Now that's a safe answer !
Everybody should be professional, no matter what they're doing.
Professional teachers, professional students, professional plumbers,
professional baseball players, professional students.
That's the ticket right there.
Be professional, no matter what you're doing.

That was a good answer.
After all, it was a professional job interview.
That's right.
But he knews what they really meant.
He knows what they were really fishin' for.
They wanted to hear him say,
"I want my students to be
Wild and CRAZY
Dancers To TECHNO Music !!!!!!!
and they were lookin' for that
wild and crazy gleam in his eye
when he said it, too.
That's what they wanted.
That's what they were lookin' for.
That's what they were fishing for,
but Our Graduate Student outsmarted them
and beat them at their own game
and said he wanted his students to be professional
in the classroom.

Um...Wild and Crazy Dancers !?
That's right.
INSANE !
Crazy people dancing like crazy !
That's right.
Our Graduate Student used to be one of them.
He used to dance like a crazy, insane person
for hours and hours and hours to
TECHNO
music !

No !
Not To TECHNO Music !!!!
Oh, Yes !
Oh, Yes !
You Betcha !
And he liked it too !
He danced to techno music and like it, dammit !
That's right.
For a while, in Anchorage,
after he got bored doing the waltz and two-step and line dances
with the waddling matron public school teachers,
he started visiting a club
where they danced to electronic dance music,
er, um, I mean
TECHNO
music !

Isn't The Devil Lurking Between The Lines
Of TECHNO music lyrics ?
Who knows !?
Who cares !?
The devil be damned !?
I'll tell you what kind of people
Our Graduate Student wants his students to be !
He wants his students to be dancers to TECHNO music !
Damn the bible thumpers in tok !
Damn the terrorist-loving matron !
Damn the atheist superintendent from hahvahd !
Dance, I say ! DANCE !
DANCE AND LIKE IT !
That's What Our Graduate Student Says !
Dance, Dance, Dance. Dance til you can't dance anymore !
And when you're tired,
the communists and terrorists can move in and take over.

Dancing To Electronic Dance Music.
That's Nice.
That's What They Play On SIRIUS, Channel 80.
I think they'd turn out to be nice people that way.
Yeah. So does Our Graduate Student.
That's what they fired him for in Alaska.
He got fired from his bus driving job
because, during his off duty time,
when it was nobody's business what he did anyway,
he danced to electronic dance music.
It caused them cognitive dissonance.
It didn't fit their mythology
of the kind of person a bus driver should be.
They're supposed to be stupid union thugs
and live desperately boring lives.

So, Our Graduate Student sang a little more,
said goodbye to his friends at "The Last Frontier,"
and hurried back to california
to be there for his daughter's Sweet Sixteen birthday.

Oh, I Don't Believe That !
He Probably Murdered Some Girl
And Then Fled Alaska
So They'd Never Suspect Him !
THAT'S WHAT I THINK !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know, huh ?
That's what they all do.

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OK, go into tok not wanting him to teach
what kind of people do yo want them to be
they mean techno muchic
they fired him for dancin to edm

I want them to be the kind of people who dance to edm
how about educated people

who know readin cipherin, science history
and their constitioon, like freedom of speech
and what it means.
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HEADSCRATCHERS
 Dancing With Wolves
 Scully the Agent on The X-Files
  While Scully in the Air Guard
 Scully and Mulder at Travis

He had also bought an acre lot in the Matsu valley,
40 miles from Anchorage,
halfway between Palmer and Wasilla (Palen country).
It had a mountain views and a distant view of a glacier,
and was right behind the valley's community college.
 
POLITICIZED ADMISSIONS
 
POLITICIZED CURRICULUM
 
PARENTS IGNORANT OF ELEMENTARY SCIENCE
 
CHALLENGE
 OUR GRADUATE STUDENT HIGH SCORES
 FEELING OF FEAR; OH NO! I'M THE BEST !?
 OUR MOST ELITE UNIVERSITIES HAVE FAILED TEST OF BASIC SKILLS
 THEY DON'T MEASURE UP
 FIRE THEM
 THEY'D RATHER TEACH NONSENSE THAN DISREGARD POLITICAL PRESSURE
 
 
 
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the three years
subbing, the different districts
Ho ho ho who wouldn't go rio linda ?
sac city major rudin
elkhorn "it's HER turn now"
the navy guy in el dorado
 that with the jerks at assessors why not take nas alameda job
 dislike mil no outgrew it, basics, similar, hs simplicity
 not real thinkers, conformity, quote d'souza
the strike at sac city
Lake Tahoe
L.A.
stockton
drive, alaska
 
go into God,
things unexplainable,
analogy to modern electronic media to pilgrims
 
The first example is about the two movies
we mentioned two chapters ago.
The first movie was about a teacher or writer
who went to Alaska and murdered a girl
who rejected him sexually, starring Robin Williams.
The second movie was "Around The World In 80 Days."
 
 
 
 
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concrete and absolute
supplemental and tangential
 
Yes, it's common for people to react with unease
to ideas that are outside of their comfort zones.
It's happened throughout history.
People often react like ideas are crazy
even though those ideas are true and correct.
Sometimes it takes a long time, even centuries,
for these correct ideas to be accepted,
just because they're outside people's comfort zones.
Take, for example, the heliocentric (sun-centered)
view of the solar system,
or the idea of evolution,
or the idea that liberal fascist censorship and
McCarthyism of the left are bad.
These correct ideas have all met with resistance,
scorn, ridicule, and contempt.
The ideas of Our Graduate Student,
which he presented in His 1982 Newsletters,
were treated with scorn, ridicule, contempt, and resistance.
until rush limbaugh made those ideas mainstream,
and D'Souza and Ravitch gave those ideas
the imprimatur of their scholarly works.
But these things take time, sometimes.
Even though Our Graduate Student's ideas
have been lifted from scorn and ridicule
to their rightfully respected and honored elevation,
Our Graduate Student himself
has never been freed from the chains and the bonds
and the indignities and humiliations of scorn and contempt and ridicule.
His reputation and image have been beheaded and stoned.
There has been a conspiracy for decades
by left coast politicians at the highest levels
to label him as a fraud.
They even falsely accused him of murdering a young woman in Alaska !
A "false positive" on dna, whatever the hell that means !
 
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sac city, sac state, uop, subbing, Victory '88
 
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put in jerry rubin quote from Dinesh D'souza
about making unreasonable demands
put it in that part about "the taming of the shrew"
 
It is good news that Dr. Ravitch
is criticizing the latest movements.
She has always been critical of "movements"
in education (cite left back, conclusion)
The current movements are
choice and accountability.
But, please, Diane, or Dr. Ravitch,
don't do the feel good, comforting thing
and return to uncensored support
 
of public education
 
It stinks and you know it.
It is hard, I know,
to abandon the myth of choice and accountability
as panaceas.
It leaves an emotional vacuum.
The hard but correct realization
is to admit
that choice and accountability
are mere politically associated movements
but the public schools still stink.
 
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(especially physics,
which required actual analytic and spacial mental powers,
not just a social familiarity with the names
of compounds and species like in chemistry and biology),
since there was that critical shortage,
 
So, Our Graduate Student
Is Attacking That Wrong Idea Of Manhood
That Many Feminists Had.
Very Easily.
 
stapling the paper backward at the copy shop
 
returning The Newsletters from
the copyright office in DC
 
bella abzug invited by the women's libbers
 
writing to norman mailer
 
visiting the sacramento union
 
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Well, when they moved a half a mile away
into South Orange
 
 
don't forget to cite the judge who said
they give out rights like lollipops
at a dentist's office.
 
 
no girl friends ? no sports ?
lived on the bus. 
track and gymnastics
one sort of.
friend of mother.
mother made house social ?
no. just the opposite.
no friends.
bobby o'connor.
only HER friends.
how about girls ?
just shy, a year younger,
socially immature, didn't know how to talk to girls
talk about mother emotionally immature, retarted, spoiled brat
kinahan and his family "love ya"
their ability to freely express affection
in contrast to his mother and family
which was militaristic no pda
 
her idea of an educated man
was one who knew latin
superstitious medieval rituals
comforting beliefs and rituals though.
well, who knows ?
bring up her mysticism
and segway into electronics 200 years ago
and Malcolm Gladwell
 
malcolm gladwell
short books to the point
does psychology a favor
the notion of blink
intuition hard to quantify and analyze
esp, stuff like that
actual professional degreed psychologists are idiots
just inventing nonsensical personality disorders
that are absolutely ludicrous
can't think out of their bureaucratic groupthink boxes
have no common sense whatsoever
 
it's not unreasonable to believe
in the possibility of things we don't understand.
talk about electricity and electronice 200 years ago
radio tv telephone electronic communication
wireless communication
the internet
they would have said you were crazy
but now we know you were right.
 
she thought of herself as a feminist
but she just wanted to work for the stimulation
the social excitement
she was immature
skiing gossiping with lorraine about work
it was all just social gossip that she brought home
she screamed and yelled and made an unhappy home
David Copperfield
 
feminism a disaster to men's education
they come onto the campuses around 1968
when our graduate student was still
trying to figure out whether and when
to open a door or pull out a chair for a girl
 
14 years later,
after doing military service THEY didn't have to do
a rude obnoxious fem bitch
is sticking her finger in his face
she wasn't an aberration
SHE WAS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BITCHES
only compliant males make it through now
they say females in the class improves boys
but that's a female judgement
it means boys have to be more like girls
 
Go back to 8
 
both meditated.
she listened to relaxation tapes til her final years
and that philosopher guy.
rosaries, our graduate student too altar boy
"an extremist is one who is fascinated and captivated
by the satisfying logic of a thought system"
"a liberal is someone who hasn't been mugged yet"
 
she allowed the boys rough play in living room
studying on shelf in fifth grade
hazelwood back yard
and front streets summer nights
 
what about her feminism ?
worked for her father in teen years
why just her ?
the smartest ?
the wildest ?
the roaring twenties !
also cosmopolitan nyc her backyard
hotel parties with her sisters
like a vanderbilt, it seemed,
mink shawls
 
she was very very immature
used to enjoy harassing the boys on bus
a spoiled brat
inappropriate vanderbilt
dressed like vanderbilts to see gene shepard at spc
 
always complained about working for her father
(describe it)
but it got her into investment dept at howard
she liked the stimulation of going to work
a statistician prof and bus women's assn
constantly fought daddy a quiet accountant
church going, baseball, neat
she not as tidy
the glasses in the couch
always provoking fights bob and daddy
mark and daddy
bob and me
always fighting with bernadette
"who zigged when she should have zagged ?"
village 2 jews, charles, columbia etc
alfred hitchcock
in kitchen in car, out the attic window
jealous of bernadette so voluptuous
 
mark says she's selfish
only her friends at the house
ran away bobby o'connor, greg
 
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David was the smartest...and the best looking
all right, then talk about
our graduate student going to spc
separation
living on bus
friend, nyc
his racial "credentials"
vet, bus,
downtown newark
riots, exchange place,
after school touch football,
Ron LeGrande,
Wittersheim
 explain that that was a lot of contact
 everyone was segregated, like bayonne
bayonne football
sabu, other lower east side roommate
Chinatown Dojo
navy ridley
 number 10 will be the next 5 years
spc go into this a lot
village and avco embassy midtown,
apt across spc
lower east side, taxi
rn room taxi motorcycle
the gang, brooklyn heights, vermont,
the demonstration, the farm, hitch cross country,
the ashram, germany, tent in woodstock
Sensei Urban, a girlfriend, the shore, the navy
 
 
 
 
 
don't forget the bus, wittersheim,
touch football, drinking summers at exchange place
sabu, chinatown dojo, no honkies here, and more !
 
Please Continue !
You know, I'd like to know more
about our graduate student's background,
his upbringing...
his formative experiences,
his thoughts and feelings,
his political and intellectual development.Please Continue !
You know, I'd like to know more
about our graduate student's background,
his upbringing...
his formative experiences,
his thoughts and feelings,
his political and intellectual development.
 
I think it's important, of course,
to at least briefly describe
his family background
(with consideration of the historical times, of course).
But, his OWN intellectual, political, and social views
really didn't develop until later in high school
and through the "college years".
So, I'll emphasize those  5 years after high school.
They were formative years in his life,
but they were also very dramatic years of upheavel
(1968 - 1973)
in American political, social, and intellectual life.
 
The main point is that his parents
were liberals and well-educated.
And, especially, to the point of addressing
two main topics
of graduate students 1982 Newsletters,
his parents were liberals
regarding racial issues and feminism.
 
So then his mother was a no good rotten egg, then, right?
irish wit
irish, italian, and jewish
 
 
 
Kind of like Mussolini,
she kept the trains running on time.
 
very organized.
heard their homework every night.
 
rules, but reasonable.
after school, go out and play.
be home by 6pm for dinner
Daddy home with the church bells.
emphasis on education
advanced and cutting edge in many ways
listened to carlton Fredericks
healthy foods, healthy minds, positive attitude
on the radio
and Gene Shepard and WOR in general
loved quality tv, steve allen, sid caesar
jackie gleason and the honeymooners
but not junk which she hated red skelton
wholesome stuff my 3 sons donna reed
cold to sister
emotionally formal, punch in the nose
no comic books at home
and no horror movies
rituals strawberry and coffee with coffee on the bottom
a spoiled brat in ways and didn't get along
thought she was better than others
and maybe she was in many ways
always at the head of her class.
her dad and uncle were big shots.
emulated the vanderbilts it seemed, mink shawls
good parents Christmas football, bikes,
little league
summers at the Jersey Shore
emotionally volatile to say the least
and so were the children
 
relations with brothers
rough housing
with sister, exaggerated expressions of adoration
 
the happy summers after 5,6,7,8
cyo summers, lincoln playground,
biking and visiting, swimming
 
but what about racial and sexual attitudes.
that's what we want to analyze.
with girls and sex, shy.
regarding blacks, liberal and respectful
 
religious altar boy
smart, was banking all the indulgences,
very logical
 
don't forget the lacrosse preppy boys
falsely prosecuted by da for the non rape,
 
the davis girl who false police report of rape
sent home
 
the black female college instructor in socal
who damaged her own car and cried racial intimidation.
 
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high school, isolation, short stature,
intellectual, best friend,
religion nonsense,
trips to NYC
Merrill Lynch
SPC
 
norman mailer, albert shanker,
jane fonda syndrone white bitches no there there
tom hayden provocation, sla etc. flaky sacto
 
 
 
the late Tim Russert of "Face The Nation", Chris Matthews,
Will Durant, McLaughlin, Tom Fleming
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Our graduate student was brought up as a liberal
Irish Catholic Democrats Chris Matthews, Joe Delaney
mother and father AT&T Merrill Lynch
neighborhood
freddy marine, uncle harry wwi, bobby career, mark gung ho
Tom Fleming
uprooted, best friend, no girls til college
jesuits and MLK mandatory rotc
NYC counter culture Greenwich village
Village Voice  Beatnicks
East Village Chinatown Dojo
 
A Prophetic Minority
Isaac Asimov
 
spc campus unrest the 3 brats
on the farm 
manson bonnie and clyde, nyack brinks sla
it's all tied in
 
da wouldn't prosecute mary jane olson
or prop 77 culprits 
but didn't hesitate when it came to our graduate student !
 
does he hate women and blacks
no. diane ravitch, tom sowell, pres obama
sometimes he thinks that females
are so stupid and shallow and childish
that they never should have been given
the right to vote.
other times
he thinks men are so stupid
that the country would be better off 
if THEY couldn't vote
and if women ran things.
 
Ben Franklin, humility,
self-deprecating humor
 
 
women's libbers
comparing themselves to slaves
use dr's quote in ttd
privileged students at Columbia etc
and then go to her description of women's libbers
as upper middle class and college educated.
 
COME ON !!!!!!! Get REAL!!!!!!!
Don't be FAKE
like our graduate student's abusers.
There's over 100 official candidates
for governor in the
2003 Recall Election in California.
Our graduate student is very involved
in that Recall Election.
At the last minute,
he learns that he, too,
can be an official candidate for governor,
a write-in candidate.
He decides to do so,
even for just one or two official votes.
 
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OK
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