Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive Ayn Rand put it nicely when she said: “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” This is proving true for the feckless flittering of the Democratic Party in search of its one true love-of-the-summer. The newest boyfriend of the American liberal comes in the form of … [Read more...]
Lindsay Clancy Killed Her Children
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive The New York Times recently told us the story of Tasha Kennedy. She wakes up at 4 a.m., puts on a pink T-shirt to drive to Plymouth, Mass., to show support for Lindsay Clancy, the mom on trial for killing her three children, ages 5, 3, and 8 months. She joins a small group of women dressed in pink, emblazoned with the words … [Read more...]
WNBA: Beyond Parody
Sherman R. Frederick Properly Subversive Forget about it, SNL. You too, John Cleese. The WNBA is now officially beyond parody. Backed into a corner, the women's basketball league says it will create a task force to decide what a “woman” really means for the purposes of allowing players into the league. Really, you need a task force? No you don’t. You … [Read more...]
If It Doesn’t Challenge Power, It Isn’t Journalism
Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive People are having a grand time writing the obituary for CBS News under Bari Weiss. Six months in, they say, the ratings are in freefall—flagship broadcasts bleeding viewers, historic lows, the whole thing a slow-motion collapse. Maybe. But six months of ratings don’t prove a newsroom overhaul has failed. They prove something far … [Read more...]
Colorado River faces a day of reckoning
By Jonathan Thompson/Writers on the Range We are two and a half decades into the Southwest’s most severe drought of the last 1,200 years, and this winter’s snow dearth is one of the most extreme on record. Without an April-May miracle, human-caused climate change likely will finally catch up with the Colorado River—and the 40 million people who rely on it—in the form of … [Read more...]
Can This Once Great American Church Hold The Middle Ground?
I’ve been increasingly critical — very critical to be honest — of my beloved Episcopal Church. Here’s the latest: Buckle Up, Bishop Hirschfeld. Here’s another: The Bishop’s Power Trip. And another: The God Gap. But today, as the old Monty Python device used to say, and now for something completely different. I present to you, in a horribly … [Read more...]
Properly Subversive: Episcopal bishop needs to fish or cut bait
I’m not sure whether to see the Rt. Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld, above, the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, as a naive priest caught in the net of his own silly words, or a political flamethrower out to ratchet up Le Resistance against the deportation of illegal aliens. About a week ago, he addressed a small crowd attending a vigil for Renee Good on the … [Read more...]
Why the sub-teacher shortage at WCSD?
By Bob Chidester Special to the Sparks Tribune After teaching middle school for 20 years full-time in the S.F. Bay Area, I retired, and my wife and I moved to Sparks. The Washoe County School District (WCSD) has daily shortages of dozens of substitutes. For the past 6 years, I have successfully substituted in a dozen WCSD middle schools. For almost that entire … [Read more...]