Moonlighting?
By Mitch Berg
I had wondered about fisking the new Nick Coleman column – in which he accuses Republicans of being behind a sinister cabal to gut public school sex ed, and if we really cared for kids we’d let the same public school teachers who can’t teach them math, reading or history turn around and show them how not to get pregnant when doing the wang bang diddly.
He stated his case with his usual diplomatic tact…
A new Gallup poll shows nearly half the country doesn’t believe in evolution (including two-thirds of Republicans), proving that the rapid stupefaction of America continues unabated.
If you don’t believe me, I have a new Minnesota sex-education law to show you. Or, rather, not to show you.
…but Wog over at Wog’s Blog noticed something else:
In reading a column in Section B of the Incredible Shrinking Star Tribune, I as struck by it’s resemblance to the screeds if Laura Billings, the best fire the Pioneer Press ever made. Well, they bribed her to quit anyway, and the readers rejoiced.
It’s some self righteous blather about troglodyte Republicans plotting to get sex education out of the schools.
The subject, the hysteria, the condescending wise ass tone, the mediocre writing and the utter boringness of the piece had Billings all over it.
The only thing Un-Billings about it was the byline, husband NickBoy.
Hmmmm. Can we do a DNA test on a column?
Oh, and when you go to Wog’s blog (and please do – he’s sounding depressed about his traffic, and he does write a blog that deserves a helluvva lot more), wish him luck; it looks like he’s slowly edging closer to a needed liver transplant.
How’s that for a hard sell?
UPDATE: Kouba also shreds Coleman.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:33 am
I liked this part the best..
“We need parents to raise their voices and talk to their school superintendents, their principals and their legislators and help get comprehensive sex education passed,” says Riley of MOAPPP. “Because right now, we are trading kids’ knowledge and information — their health and their futures — while the politicians cave in to some very narrow values.”
Never occurred to these pinheads to suggest that parents should be doing their talking to *their kids*, nope.
Coleman and his ilk are trying desperately to remove the parents, and their absolute right and responsibility to raise their own kids, that is never even contemplated in the fever swamp any more.
It’s all about raising a village of leftist pinheads.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:37 am
BTW..did you happen to see the story out of New Hampshire (natch) about the middle school “field trip” to Planned Infanticide?
“Kids, now this is a trocor…”
Yow.
June 13th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Mitch you need to prove MiniMon’s Soros funding before you attempt pinning conjugal plagiarism on Comrade Coleman.
June 13th, 2007 at 11:28 am
“We need parents to raise their voices and talk to their school superintendents, their principals and their legislators and help get comprehensive sex education passed,” says Riley of MOAPPP. “Because right now, we are trading kids’ knowledge and information — their health and their futures — while the politicians cave in to some very narrow values.”
I wonder if any of the parents already raised their voices to school superintendents, principals, legislatures, and harebrained columnists in the Star-Tribune to demand that certain school programs, classes, lessons, and topics get edited, altered, or removed entirely from their kid’s school?
Maybe the only kind of support from parents should be in the form of a left-leaning position.
June 13th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
So many good points…parents (if they’re so damned worried about it!) can talk to their own kids about sex…they do know about it themselves by now, don’t they? And they shouldn’be embarrassed or uptight to do so because haven’t they come of age during the “Enlightenment” where all forms and types and derivations of sex are so beautiful and natural?
And, badda’s point about the possibility of parents having already indeed raised their voices…just not raised them FOR what Nick Coleman thinks they should be raised for…aaargh.
I’m thinking the only ones that care are leftist “columnists” and “activists” and whatever pathetic “health” teacher is out of a job if everyone wakes up to this boondoggle that’s been going on for 30 years now with increasingly worse results.
June 13th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Hey Swiftee, we all know you’ve already posted your kids’ GPAs here. Why don’t you break ’em down by subject so we’ll know how they did in health class?
June 13th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
12 Noon. Angry Clown rolls over in his disorganized bed. The small bottles of Yukon Jack that he lifted from the local liquor store rattle and fall on the floor. He puts on his sweats and wife-beater T-shirt and goes down to the neighborhood library (the one he isn’t banned from) and checks in on Mitch’s blog.
June 13th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
AC has earned another fan.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
On days that subjects that are the sole pervue of parents were presented, they were absent. So if you’re looking to see if they might share your appreciation of sodomy or infanticide you’re going to be dissapointed Assclown.
But they did learn enough in school not to drink rubbing alcohol Assclown…evidently *you* were absent that day.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Chuck said,
“He (angryclown) puts on his sweats and wife-beater T-shirt”
Hey AC. Is this you?
http://static.flickr.com/23/33908462_f72484ce82_o.jpg
June 14th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Wow, your kids musta been real popular, Swift One. Bad enough that they have the a-hole dad shooting his mouth off at school board meetings. But then as soon as health class gets interesting, they have to go sit out in the hall with the Jehovah’s Witness kids. Now you’ve truly managed to impress Angryclown with the Junior Swiftees’ grades. They musta aced driver ed and typing to make up for those test answers labeling the parts of the female reproductive system as “unclean” and “Satan’s playground.”
June 14th, 2007 at 7:43 am
“But then as soon as health class gets interesting, they have to go sit out in the hall with the Jehovah’s Witness kids.”
Not everyone finds the life and times of colon cowboys as interesting as you AssClown.
June 14th, 2007 at 8:05 am
Do you make them leave Biology class when the teacher says Adam and Eve didn’t ride dinosaurs around Eden? Or do they just stick their fingers in their ears?
June 14th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Now, now, people. Can’t we all get along?
Let’s just accept that Swiftee wants to teach his own kids his own values, while Clown believes all children should be taken from their parents at age 2, raised by state-programmed nursebots, and trained to regard the Associated Press and the National Organization of Women manifesto as the revealed truth.
June 14th, 2007 at 8:17 am
I’d just like to add that “Colon Cowboys,” would be a great name for either a rock band, or a high fiber children’s cereal.
June 14th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Sure Mitch, if it will make you happy, Angryclown will take it easy on the Swift One.
June 14th, 2007 at 8:32 am
No, no no! Not my point at all! I’m not calling on people to take it easy on Swiftee. I’m calling on people to pile on you!
😉
June 14th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Colon cowboys and piling on Angryclown. . . and I thought my blog has been interesting this week!
June 14th, 2007 at 8:56 am
You’re the only one, Cathcart.
June 14th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I just checked and it looks like a lot of folks found his blog interesting this week. 🙂