from todays's SacBee
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stupider, schools across the nation decided to censor President Barack Obama’s speech urging kids to work hard because “being successful is hard.” And that, ladies and gentlemen, was the terribly scary bit of propaganda that prompted certain Americans to cry “socialism” and “indoctrination,” and force some schools to opt out of hearing the president’s message Tuesday.
When and how did we become so ridiculous? As it turns out, we’ve been this way for a while now. Such protests aren’t new, a review of which follows shortly. The difference is that now, the masses are technologically enabled, amplified by a twillion tweets. Everybody’s got a megaphone, bless democracy’s heart.
read the est at http://www.sacbee.com/1190/story/2168501.html
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any stupider, schools across the nation decided to censor President Barack Obama’s speech urging kids to work hard because “being successful is hard.” And that, ladies and gentlemen, was the terribly scary bit of propaganda that prompted certain Americans to cry “socialism” and “indoctrination,” and force some schools to opt out of hearing the president’s message Tuesday.
When and how did we become so ridiculous? As it turns out, we’ve been this way for a while now. Such protests aren’t new, a review of which follows shortly. The difference is that now, the masses are technologically enabled, amplified by a twillion tweets. Everybody’s got a megaphone, bless democracy’s heart.
read the est at http://www.sacbee.com/1190/story/2168501.html
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