The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Rise and Fall of the Second Amendment The People vs. the Occupying Force DONALD JEFFRIES Everyone has undoubtedly heard about the shooting during the Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City. These victory celebrations always bring the potential for trouble, what with all those young males consuming prodigious amounts of alcohol. And they draw the worst elements; the seemingly perpetually armed gang-bangers. The shooting has triggered the yawningly predictable response from the “Woke” crowd. Which at this point means nearly our entire government and corporate leadership. One marvels at how many times clueless celebrities can breathlessly tweet out, “We have to do something about this!” or “We are failing the children!” It’s odd how the inanimate object- the gun- is always the Oswald-style patsy in these incidents. Often the names of those wielding the inanimate objects for no good are barely mentioned. Quick; name the Parkland school shooter. The Pulse gay night club shooter....

  The Secret Sauce for Not Shooting Each Other The Washington Post goes to a Public School and, like the Students and Teachers, Learns Nothing. LIBRARIAN OF CELAENO I really didn’t intend a series inspired by the  Washington Post , but reading that august journal is much like watching  Neil Breen films , so-bad-it’s-good entertainment, but with a bigger budget. As I had to give them an email address when looking up the original story that  inspired the last   two essays  in my  WaPo  rabbit hole, I now get regular announcements for their new material, and since they’ve algorithmically deduced that I am a teacher, I get a lot of their hot takes on the world of education. Needless to say, their content is undeviatingly homogenous neoliberal boilerplate, the kind of stuff that could be (and may be) produced by an AI trained by reading NEA press releases and watching TED Talks. Not the good ones, though Most of you reading my essays probably don’t rea...