Someone Didn't Do The Reading

Noted white supremacist forum StormFront has a thread about how left wing, race-mixing liberals who run the US school system no longer teach Helen Keller in schools because she's white.

I notice that they failed completely to mention the other leading cause of Keller being glossed over in history books for children: she was a radical socialist. She campaigned for women's suffrage, gave speeches at labor strikes and anti-war protests, fought for race equality, wrote a bunch of books pointing out how the only reason she was able to overcome her considerable disabilities was that she was white and privileged, oh yeah and helped create the ACLU and the NAACP.

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Yeeeeaaaaah, somehow I don't think StormFront thought this whole mascot plan all the way through.

Things Are Getting Better

Everything is going well. I have an appointment for an EMG coming up, my asthma meds are doing their job, therapy is going to interesting places and my blood sugar is settling down a bit. I've been getting lots of exercise again, and last night I even managed an hour at the gym for the first time since You Know When.

And last night, it snowed! The whole town was pale purple and I had to hover around 20 miles an hour on the highway or risk slippery death just getting home from the gym. Fantastic.

Last but not least, I'm back in contact with my father. The other day while I was in the shower, thinking thoughts the way I do, I realized that I want to know more about the guy and my own roots. So I sent him an email asking him to tell it to me. So far the results have been pretty interesting. My family has one fucked up backstory. I'm glad I took that shower.

So Glad We Moved

When you hear gunshots late at night in the North End of St. Paul: STAY INDOORS AND WAIT FOR THE COPS TO COME AND CHECK YOUR YARD AND HOME FOR THE SHOOTER.

When you hear gunshots late at night in Northfield: THE WHOLE TOWN IS STAGING A RE-ENACTMENT OF THE FAMOUS DEFEAT OF THE JESSE JAMES GANG AT FIRST NATIONAL BANK A FEW BLOCKS AWAY.