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It's terminal, Jim.

 

I don't see Liz as some Dorothy character who is suddenly hailed by the guards trying to kill her and her friends as soon as she dumps some water on Trump. I could see somebody like Paul Ryan or other Republicans who tapped out with the rise of Trump make a return - not one who constantly reminded them what idiots they were for following Trump. Perhaps the next GOP president hires her as Secretary of State and then maybe...

 

Depends on what you want. Steve Schmidt is seen as a peak writing talent on Twitter. His 'raw copy' is atrocious. (And he wants to be paid for it now)

 

Interesting how much public passion and agitation any change in the teaching of reading provokes.

Whereas very little seems to accompany any change in the teaching of mathematics, which feels much more frequent.

And of course there's the race thing, which used to be subtext and is now overt.

 

A 180° — shall we say — “flip” in this story in 24 hours.

Plea Deal Requires Weisselberg to Testify at Trump Organization Trial

 

Math? Try and help your children or your grandchildren with math. They are taught to do math in a way today that I do not understand. I’m not talking about calculus and trig, I’m talking 5th, 6th, 7th grade math. Ask any parent, we are baffled. My 25 yer old daughter who got a 670 on the Math SAT struggles with her step-son’s 7th grade math. Not getting the answer, but showing the work.

 

It's all a racket, as my mentor said.
No standardized spelling or orthography until the 18th century, and even that was no tidal wave.
There was a funny anecdote about this: Abigail Adams once spelled the same word three or four different ways in a letter,
and finally asked after the final one, "Is this one right?" or such.

 

Mistakenly

GOP group apologizes for mistakenly posting KKK image

 

So you are saying people who, by todays standards, are poor spellers and incorrectly use grammar are really experts in 15th-17th century English literature?

 

Everyone's got one special thing.

Except Trump, of course.