Even in the holiday week, stuff kept happening. Here are a few stories that caught our eye:
ILYBYGTH Prize for Hilarious Hack: Florida billboard’s cute puppy delivers Satanic blessing, at FA.
The past and present of Liberty football, from Paul Putz. It’s about more than prostitutes:
Will protests and activism follow? Will risk-averse administrators at major college programs decide that a game against Liberty is not worth the trouble? Will elite black high school athletes decide they don’t want to play for Trump University?
- What is it about fundamentalists and football? The long history here at ILYBYGTH.
Other People’s Children: Walmart heirs push charters for African American students, at AP.
What happens to teachers’ unions after the Janus decision? At EWA.
Christmas 1924: When the Klan marched in Fort Worth, at ST.
Do young-earth creationists have any rebuttal for their flat-earth critics? RA says no.
Zoiks: Legislation to keep teachers from talking politics, at Curmudgucation.
Should teachers exhort their students to vote for a particular candidate? No. Do teachers have the right to discuss controversial political issues in their classroom, without being forced to present opposing views? Of course they do– imagine a class a teacher must explain how Nazis and slave owners had valid points of their own.
- Why all the worry about teachers’ politics? Here at ILYBYGTH.