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Of Apples and Trees
My dad recently sent me an heirloom: A handwritten note from one of my elementary school teachers, written in the early ’80s. The content of her note can be summarized in the phrase “We need to talk.” My dad also included his handwritten notes from the phone conversation.
Here are the highlights, in case they’re hard to read:
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In elementary school, they brought TVs into our classrooms so we could watch the Mercury missions. John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth (after many delays and cancellations).
family of the deceased rents a room, often within a church, and then invites the relatives and friends of the deceased to socialize and, if they wish, say a few words to the embalmed corpse.
re now celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. On 
Betio is a small triangular island located about 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii in the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Only 2 miles long and about 800 yards at its widest point it would not seem to be a place of any great importance in the world. Yet, during the Second World War, Imperial Japan fortified it with 2,600 troops and 2,200 construction workers, 1,200 of which were Korean slave laborers.
Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino is a great book. It arrived this week, and I read it in one day. I read until after midnight, and then woke up early to tackle it again. It has a number of insights and inside stories, from Justice Kennedy slipping out to give Trump his letter of resignation, to mind-numbing detail about how the Dems tried to scam the process.
Literally, the one in my office. I have a beautiful Rand McNally globe that sat in my grandfather’s office when he worked for the company in the 1960s. My dad has had it since the 80s, and gave it to me a few months back (ok, I took it and he didn’t object). Only recently have I had time to really take a close look; the first time in 35 years.
Yes, the phase is casually, dishonestly employed, and so debased as to be largely emptied of moral weight. This is another thing the left has ruined. At the same time, leftist identity politics legitimize preferred forms of segregation, racial favoritism, and ideological policing of color lines.