Fewer than half of American teenagers who were asked basic questions about history and literature during a recent telephone survey knew when the Civil War was fought, and one-quarter thought that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World sometime after 1750, not in 1492.

The results of the survey, released Tuesday, demonstrate that a significant proportion of American teenagers live in “stunning ignorance” of history and literature, according to the group that commissioned it. Known as Common Core, the organization describes itself as a new, nonpartisan research and advocacy organization that will press for more teaching of the liberal arts in American public schools…. (iht.com)

Great. Well, here in Salisbury, MD our teenagers are not only stunningly ignorant, they are having sex, getting pregnant, foul mouthing, fighting, smoking, taking drugs, and dressing like whores and thugs.

While lounging at a cafe sipping on lattes and nibbling on organic truffles, Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk gazed affectionately at the cutesy New Haven, Connecticut Victorian neighborhood and quilled a few pronouncements on parchment. It was an affirmation of New Urbanism:

Here in Salisbury, MD, what do we get? A ravished downtown, 2 Wal-Marts, blacktop galore, and a whole lot of fat people.

Responsibility for One’s Chastity

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? . . . For you
have been purchased at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body (1
Corinthians 6:15, 20).

In earlier times, the boy often relied on the girl (for the most
part) in communicating to him if or when he was beginning to be
unchaste in his advances toward her. Thus, courtship would sometimes
involve the boy going as far as the girl allowed him, while the girl
tried to fend him off until marriage. Today’s statistics on
pre-marital sex demonstrate the weakness of this principle: If the
girl doesn’t fend him off, the man will tend to go as far as he can.
Naturally, this often results in fornication.

In my experience, the man must take responsibility for his own
chastity. Not only should the woman help him behave chastely, but the
man also needs to help the woman behave chastely. Teen boys should be
taught to treat girls chastely and respectfully even if the girl
seems unconcerned about it, or even acts in an unchaste manner. (Of
course, if she continues such behavior, the dating relationship
should be terminated.) …(ewtn.com)

If I were on safari and spotted either of these creatures about the grasslands, it would be with utmost certainty and swiftness that I would drop them with my Weatherby Mark V Safari Custom .460 Magnum and send the carcasses on over to Ray Hitchcock Taxidermy and have the good folks there do either a full body action pose or a shoulder mount.

In the desolate wastelands of the Transchoptankia Realm lies an infernal disorderly relic of a town named Salisbury, of County Wicomico in the State of Maryland, where the ignorant and untamed are heralded. Out of this despair a hoarse voice was heard as it croaked out the barely discernible:

Unwalkable? Noisy? Miles of blacktop? A stunted tree here and there? What’s wrong? There is no responsible overall plan for how your town should develop.

Good leadership always involves a plan, a responsible plan, not a piecemeal, scatter-brained development blight like what we have in Salisbury, Maryland as in most towns throughout America.

The former was part of our groundbreaking inane mantra at outragedrichard.com in the year 2004 to purvey real and practical solutions to the unlivable and unsociable urban sprawl of Salisbury, MD.

Now we have come full circle after many years to … nothing beyond the live picture feed seen here except a “Round-A-Bout” traffic circle costing millions for some shoveling of a little tar by illegal immigrants.

Yes, you can click on the live picture feed and Biggie Size it.

(Readeth more…)

If a man were to float the idea of holding a person against their will and forcing them under whip to pick cotton by virtue of their black skin, would it gain an audience?

Now if the idea took hold and was expanded upon and heralded as a good practice and this man were to take the practice to heart, would it be considered as acceptable?

Then, if this man were to lay claim to the Presidency of the United States and have the ability to engage in all manner of rigorous debates, would this then bestow even more credibility on the practice of enslaving a human being by virtue of their skin color?

Who would be such a man? The guy who had false teeth made of hippopotamus and elephant ivory held together with gold springs? Bingo! George Washington it is!

Sometimes called the “Father of His Country”, George Washington may not of originally floated the idea of slavery, but he followed the fad of white America and immersed himself in imprisoning black people to work for room and board. Now any decent father will tell you the first order of business in patriarchy is to be fair and corrective, but Mr. Washington thought better.

Even with the cerebral power of his powdered wig, Mr. Washington overlooked the moment’s thought that slavery was an activity better defined as kidnapping, assault, battery, dictatorship, and murder. By that description, slavery doesn’t seem very fair to others. Mr. Washington didn’t seem very corrective either when during his lifetime he never used his position of authority to abolish slavery, not even of those he personally “owned”.

But the great minds of the eighteenth century mulled at great length and justified the whole nasty business of slavery by concluding that blacks were less than human and therefore relinquished those rights inherent to humans. A laughable conclusion at best, as another moment’s thought would of found that human being-ness is a primary characteristic wherein their rights are established, and different coats of paint are slapped on later as a secondary characteristic.

So much for eighteenth century logic. So much for freedom. So much for fairness.

Just toss George Washington, his cherry tree, his false teeth, his impotent claims to fatherhood, and his clanking chains of slavery into a DR® Rapid-Feed™ Chipper and when the contraption binds up finally on the iron links, chuck the whole lot into the Potomac River at flood level.

I say to you again:

Return to your first marriages.

Return to each other with a renewed heart of love, patience, devotion and forgiveness.