...for a change. I'm always a little leery of these fluffy feel-good stories when they run on network news. It just seems like somebody's trying to "buck me up"; telling me "it's not all as bad as we make it look every goddamned day".
hat tip = Democratic Underground
So it occurs to me that maybe the Press Poodles could try a little harder to make more of these connections; taking a story of something really shitty that happened, and connecting it with something that somebody across town - or even half a world away - is trying to do that might help solve whatever problem is causing these shitty things to happen in the first fuckin' place.
(Gee - if only we had some kind of really cool technology that helps us find out what's going on in the world; so you could just sit at your desk and browse the entire planet if you wanted...silly me; dreamin' again. Just a tho't.)
Anyway, did you hear it? It pops up at about the 1:10 mark, and then again near the end of the clip: "...futures made a lot brighter by a crazy idea...". And what was the new principal's "crazy idea"? To make the school feel more like a school and less like a fucking prison.
Treating people like people - that's what passes for a "bold new idea" now.
And Jesus wept.
hat tip = Democratic Underground
So it occurs to me that maybe the Press Poodles could try a little harder to make more of these connections; taking a story of something really shitty that happened, and connecting it with something that somebody across town - or even half a world away - is trying to do that might help solve whatever problem is causing these shitty things to happen in the first fuckin' place.
(Gee - if only we had some kind of really cool technology that helps us find out what's going on in the world; so you could just sit at your desk and browse the entire planet if you wanted...silly me; dreamin' again. Just a tho't.)
Anyway, did you hear it? It pops up at about the 1:10 mark, and then again near the end of the clip: "...futures made a lot brighter by a crazy idea...". And what was the new principal's "crazy idea"? To make the school feel more like a school and less like a fucking prison.
Treating people like people - that's what passes for a "bold new idea" now.
And Jesus wept.
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