- The Dallas Morning News trots out a bogus trend story — “Home Swapping Growing Trend in Dallas-Fort Worth.” Just a casual skim gives us about a dozen violations of Jack Shafer’s tells: heavy on the anecdotes, lots of “some” “many” and “seem”, absolutely no hard numbers to support the trend, and not much else.
- Shots fired at the Dallas Kwanzaa Fest.
- Best DMN letter to the editor in a while: short, concise, and cutting.
- Okay, this Dear Leader stuff has getting really creepy, and it’s gone too far when it’s trickled down to children’s books.
I understand the value of a book for African American kids on the first half African American President. It does, however, creepily recall the personality cults of more authoritarian cultures.
Per #3? Per ‘Dear Leader’ and kids books?
1) I recall a couple about Ronald Reagan before and after his presidency.
2) You’re too young to remember the Kennedy overkill. (pun not altogether intended.)
3) Katie Couic wrote children books.
4) I have an eBay-bopund Akmak cracker that I swear hasNancy Pellosi’s face on it.