Critical Racing Theory

Imagine you have an intelligence that can’t be accurately measured by standardized testing.

Yeah, I’ll go with that. – Barker Ajax

An example titled “Adding and Subtracting Polynomials” shows a math model used to “measure bias.” Wouldn’t know a polynomial if it sat on my face.

So, anyway, if you have been following the news closely, the Florida state Department of Education recently rejected 54 of 132 math textbooks submitted by publishers. The books did not comply with its Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking Standards or were rejected for including critical race theory (CRT), social emotional learning (SEL) and more, it said.

Can guess exactly what you are thinking.

Did they make air quotes with their tiny hands when they said “Benchmarks for Excellent Thinking Standards?”

And you are surprised student suicide rates are so high.

Which got me to wondering.

After a couple hundred years of near-complete bullshit in our history tomes, about fuckin’ time they rein in these anti-racist math books.

If Big Dog has three corners and a bag boy with backup at each, how much will he have to pay the Irish Catholic beat cop to have enough cash to purchase a purple Cadillac with velour upholstery?

Suppose we could use more, oh, let’s say, commodious and ameliorative examples of a different nature.

Besides guns and Covid and racism and book banning and voter suppression and inflation and the Republicans’ attempt to Nazify America, there’s obesity.

Almost thong season, people.

What say we sneak physical fitness and proper nutrition and positive body images in other classes?

Call me crazy, but I “composed” – air quotes – a poem for freshman English.

Erudite Pre followed by scholarly Jeff Galloway and the poetic Don Kardong. A JOJ photo. PDX ’74.

Reach Your Goals With This Surprising Strategy


You can’t reach a goal

unless you have a goal.

But you also might have trouble

reaching that goal

if you over-obsess about it.

Is there another path?

“Yes,”

says evidence-based

running coach Steve Magness.

He suggests an approach

that looks like this:

Set your ultimate goal.

Figure out a bunch

of intermediate steps

on the road to your goal,

little “mini goals”

if you will.

Forget about your big goal.

Instead set your sights

on the mini goals,

one at a time.

When you’ve reached

all your mini goals,

guess what?

You’re ready

for that last, big step

to the maxi goal

you established

at the get-go.

This approach

takes the pressure off

your training and racing,

since you don’t focus every day

on what might seem

almost impossible

at the beginning

of your journey.

Yo, stick with me here.

You know that makes sense.

More white men would need far fewer guns

if they weren’t so damn fat.

True too if they’d only read more

poetry.

Skinnier you are,

the bigger your dick looks.

Just physics.


social emotional learning (SEL) – No idea what that means. But I have been married three times.

Consider getting this tattooed somewhere you can see it regularly.

Source: Amby Burfoot’s https://www.runlongrunhealthy.com/

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