U.S. Education Is Slipping, to Put it Kindly
Below is a performance of Frederik Chopin’s waltz in G flat.
I bring it up because a dear old friend who grew up in the Netherlands used to play it, and when I asked him how he could get through such a difficult piece, he told me that every kid he went to school with learned to play the piano at that level, at the very least.
High schoolers also read Plato and Descartes, and speak fluent English (as well as Dutch) and get by in both French and German.
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: If you don’t think Nikki Haley and Joe Biden would split the non-MAGA vote, you’re not paying attention.
Michael Fanone worked for the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia from 2001 until his retirement following the storming of the U.S. Capitol in 2021. What he says here I find interesting.
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Here’s a reminder that we can have both a working Second Amendment and a ban on weapons of war.
Obviously, there are reasons that we’re still talking about Marcus Aurelius 2000 years after his death–and here’s one of them.
Here’s David Letterman’s suggestion to this effect.
One would think that the list of demographics that would refuse to vote for Trump is so large that the former president would be hard-put to get more than about 30% of the popular vote in the general election.
Where do you break the chain of single-use plastic? The manufacturer? The distributor? The retailer? The consumer?
But he’s sane, competent, and decent.
