The Blaaaaaahgs
I have the blahgs, which is like the blahs only applying to this here blog. There’s nothing I want to blog about. Plenty of stuff I react to, but I can’t stir myself to actually getting a reaction down on screen. So let’s just take a tour of stuff to react to …
Homeschooler? Don’t even think about moving to California.
Public schooler? Don’t even think about moving to Deerfield, Illinois. Content warning in the article Rachel is blockquoting there, content strong enough to churn my stomach. No, not the porn necessarily (although that’s stomach-turning enough) but the fact that a school district can order 14-year-olds to undergo a seminar about homosexuality at which they must sign a confidentiality agreement not to tell their parents. How can that even be legal?
Scientist? Don’t even think about straying from the establishment even if your research and conclusions go a different way, because then people will start talking about denying you certification from your governing board. Not exactly “Galileo’s head was on the block” but the principle remains the same.
Kentucky blogger/commenter? Don’t even think about choosing to blog or comment anonymously if this unbelievably stupid and probably unenforcable bill passes the legislature.
And last but certainly not cringeworthy-least: Are you Tucker Carlson? Then don’t even think … actually, yeah, start thinking again, because you clearly ceased for the ten minutes it took you to bully a Scotsman reporter for putting on-the-record comments, you know, on the record. Wait, can she really do that, though? Report remarks made in an on-the-record interview even though the moronsubject, who obviously thought the reporter would be putty in her Obama-blessed hands (gee, I wonder why she thought that?), tried to cover a truthblurt about Hillary by throwing in a little “by the way that’s off the record”? See, I never went to J-school, Tucker, so I guess it would be a little much for me to lecture you on your journalistic stupidity.
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I can’t see how a 14-year-old can consent to a confidentiality agreement for something like that when, as a counselor trainee, I have to have a guardian’s signature for them to consent to counseling with a grad student.
I hate idiocy.
Comment by jae — March 10, 2008 @ 11:05 am
Yeah, I can’t believe they didn’t think about how fast they’d get sued for that.
Comment by Anwyn — March 10, 2008 @ 11:10 am
It may be a folk etymology thing. Some teachers and school administrators think “in loco parentis” is Latin for “crazy parents.”
Comment by Xrlq — March 10, 2008 @ 11:38 am
And even if they understand the phrase correctly in itself, they tend to tack on an automatic “absolutely” at the end.
Comment by Anwyn — March 10, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
“I can’t see how a 14-year-old can consent to a confidentiality agreement for something like that when, as a counselor trainee, I have to have a guardian’s signature for them to consent to counseling with a grad student.”
You know, same way they’re qualified to have an abortion without any parental input at all.
Comment by See-Dubya — March 11, 2008 @ 1:59 am
Your blahgs are better than mine.
You could rant about how the MSM sends out all this news about Spitzer while failing to mention his party. Or burying that way, way down in the story. Think that would happen with a Republican?
I was going to rant about it, and about him negotiating for a better rate with the $5,000 prostitute, but I need to take my father to the doctor, attend a hospice meeting about my mother and take my daughter to the dermatologist today, all while completing a brochure about foundation repair. See you later!
Comment by Anne — March 11, 2008 @ 5:23 am