It’s Getting Too Crazy - News With Views

by Lee Duigon

May 16, 2024

I can’t decide which nooze to report today. It’s getting too crazy out there, one story’s goofier than another. Here are a few snippets.

The Chicago teachers’ union wants another 50 billion dollars. Well, they need it, don’t they? For abortions. For “LGBT training,” whatever that is (don’t ask!). And for “migrants.”

“Migrants”? Somehow, while we weren’t looking, illegal aliens got replaced by “migrants.” It’s a dishonest stupid buzzword. Birds migrate. You know—fly south for the winter. But they don’t just stay down there! They migrate northward in the summer. Our “migrants” don’t swim the Rio Grande with any intention of swimming back when the season changes. Anyway, the Chicago teachers’ union wants to give them money. Our money.

Three women in a car were visiting the back roads in Rumania. By “back roads” I mean “wilderness with skimpy little roads and no rest stops.” They stopped the car when they saw what they describe as “a group” of bears. What they saw was a mother bear with a couple of cubs. Once upon a time, everybody in the world knew this was a good time to stay in the car and keep the windows closed. These geniuses decided to roll down the window and take some selfies. Then the big bear approached the car. Quote of the day: “I thought he wanted to be friends.” He? You mean you didn’t know it was the mother bear, and that you never, never, never want to mess with a mother bear with cubs? Oh, boy, what a selfie! Hang farther out the window, get a better shot!

The bear ate a big piece of the woman’s arm. Ignorance may be bliss, but it can also be fatal.

A high school teacher was fired for teaching “critical thinking.” You know—actually thinking about what you say before you say it, and not just repeating, mindlessly, what you’ve heard other people say. A student called J.K. Rowling (of Harry Potter fame) a bigot. The teacher engaged the student in a dialogue, examining the charge. He should have remembered what happened to Socrates when he did that. He convinced the student that the charge was not true, based on the facts of the case. But he made the mistake of filming the exchange and posting it on his blog. Adios, muchacho. Three months later he was fired, having served four years at the school. Silly rabbit! We don’t teaching thinking anymore.

And then we had New York City Mayor Eric Adams addressing the “migrant” crisis in his city. And it is a crisis, no mistake about it. Meanwhile, though, the mayor had noticed that the city needed more lifeguards for its swimming pools and beaches. The light bulb goes off overhead. Aha! If only the feds would release the funds for it, he said, the city could hire a lot of the migrants as lifeguards… because “they’re excellent swimmers,” he said. (Yeesh! Can you imagine the screams of outrage if George W. Bush had said this?) It seems swimming or wading across the Rio Grande to enter the country illegally is excellent preparation for a New York City lifeguard.

So that’s a few of them—stories I could’ve covered if the sheer volume of idiotic nooze hadn’t overwhelmed me this week. Next week I’ll try harder. Scouts’ honor…

And if you’ve been following the nooze yourself, you’ll know I probably shouldn’t have said “Scouts’ honor.”

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . If you can steer clear of the mother bear with cubs, click the link and drop in for a visit. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

E-Mail Lee Duigon: leeduigon@verizon.net