Archive for May, 2017
Sad respect
“Not for me to understand…Rest in peace CC.” – Mary Lou Lord
“We cannot judge, criticize or blame people who decide to end their own lives. Just be there for those left behind.” – @JudgeDewie
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Summer teaching
Tomorrow I meet the students in my Advanced Professional Communications class for the first time, out at Kwantlen Polytechnic University‘s Surrey campus. What a splendid gig I have!
The discussion has left the room
My friend Clarissa writes,
As a long-time blogger, I know that there is a number of subjects you simply don’t write about if you don’t want to attract a bunch of unhinged fanatics. Breastfeeding, homeschooling, and sexual dysfunction are such subjects. Climate is another. I simply don’t engage and find the whole subject repellent because there’s no upside to talking about it. It’s become the sole purview of disturbed people who use it to soothe their psychological traumas.
There can be no doubt that the climate cause is losing. One would think that after decades of abject failure those who care would at least consider trying to do something other than screeching maniacally at whoever departs half an inch from their orthodoxy.
And it’s not just climate, either. Diversity was a great idea until it was overrun by crazy and vulgar people who destroyed the concept in the service of their dysfunction.
I would add “naming individuals on the ‘gender continuum’” to that list of subjects. Alas.
basil.CA 