Christ, don’t let Xenophon see this one. Really, this is the sort of thing that makes me want to scream. The best part? It’s been going on for two years, and they are just now realizing it’s “insensitive.” Racism is institutional, fo shizzle:

Over 100 sixth graders at Grover Cleveland Middle School in Caldwell spent several days last week taking part in an assignment where they used terms like “build a plantation” while completing their “Lap of Luxury” social studies project.

The project instructed students to create an advertisement defending the use of slave labor to run a newly built plantation in South Carolina. Students are told to come up with a ’”catchy” name for the plantation and give three reasons why slave labor is the “best idea” and to add illustrations.

One student, who is not being identified because of his age, read to CBS what he wrote for the assignment: “Slave labor is the way to go because slaves aren’t paid, so all money is profit.”  Read more 

So I was one with nature all day and away from computers and text and other things that aren’t green. I plugged in the iPod, and let my mind wander. I’m a writer, so I have to share what I “wrote” as I raked leaves and mulched flower beds. This is just Saturday night silliness, but I’d love to hear what you think of the ideas. Expand, critique, and most of all, have some fun. Don’t invite me to the Revolution that lacks dreaming and dancing, to paraphrase a great. H/T to BD and his Chere:

I feel like making trouble. This post should get me a nice, red flag in some government server. I want to propose “The Overnight Revolution.” Some smart people have told me more than once, “no one is going to save you but you.” In that vein, I recall Helen Thomas’ words to me recently, which more or less approximate to “the Democratic party doesn’t have the stones.” So, if I have to be imaginative, I will be. Mine is a simple idea, and I think it could be practical too. We’re lazy in America, and we like our bloodshed and violence to last about 2 hours, and then we like to go home and have a beer and turn on the TV or light up. So, I give you: the lazy man’s revolution.  Read more