Beneath the Fireworks - Saturday Night OT

 

Tools for Coping: Education Edition

 

Just a quickie, for parents of school age children, and people who know school age children.

Consider buying textbooks and other literary material that align with your values, because with the threats to the public school systems, in terms of both funding and what may be taught, those may not be available in the near future, or in the long term. Want Black history lessons? Paleontology? Biology? LGBTQ+ material? Maybe buy some books for various age levels while you still can.

Try sites like Amazon for used textbooks.

Support your local library and encourage them to buy scientifically correct material, Black history and LGBTQ+ material, and help defend them when they do.

Monday the 13th OT at Night

Find a cool, shady spot in your home and survive the blistering heat this week, ok? Current book (Well, one of the five actually, each one at roughly 20 - 25% read. Yeah, it's one of those weeks) in hand is:

 

The author is smart and funny. The main character is fascinating and utterly unlikable. But relatable too. All the advantages of being young and white, pretty and fairly wealthy, the only thing she wants is to sleep and not think about anything. Unlike Holden Caulfield, who walks all over town bugging everybody, people keep bugging her. Especially her best friend Reva. Not at all a pleasant read but riveting in the horribleness of everything and everybody. I might have LOL'd a couple times. I highlighted some sections which I'll probably regret later.

Moon Night OT - Sir, I Demand Satisfaction (I Can't Get No)

Oscars94: The Besmirchening of The King3: The Controversening. I don't give a fig about awards, but even I know what happened. I guess there's no such thing as bad publicity. 

AND the award for the Best Free Flow of Information goes to... JAPAN! for not censoring BS content. At least one country wasn't all "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?"