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mysticalmusicwhispers · 4 years

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APH College AU: Hong Kong

AU Intro here, AU headcanons are tagged #college au musings.

- Music major. However, he took quite a lot of computer engineering and business classes in high school because China insisted (in classic Asian parent fashion), and he still takes them because he sees them as useful for later life (freelance musician or managing a songwriter or something).

- His reasoning for going into music was that it was a relatively cool and not boring job; he wouldn’t have to always be tied to a computer or an indoor office and had more freedom. I think HK kinda hates getting a job in general because he’s got to Do Very Specific Work and doesn’t have time to do side projects/fool around, but he could deal with being a freelance musician or someone who creates background tracks for other artists, game music, etc. Also chose music to spite Yao, because he was expected to do either business or computer science/engineering (but he’s still pretty thankful for taking a lot of business and engineering classes because he legitimately needs them now)

- Soundcloud artist, and has quite a lot of followers. He does a lot of electronic instrumental mixes (idk how to describe it), but also sings sometimes, with lyrics about taking what you’ve got and running with it, carpe diem, breaking away from norms imposed by elders and parents; a mix of hopeful and rebellious. Never writes love songs, because he thinks it’s rather sappy and would rather express love in other (chill) ways. Doesn’t really write sad songs, but there are occasionally ones about rejection and estrangement.

- Re: soundcloud; he really wants to get in their direct monetization program, but doesn’t want to pay for a pro membership. Complains about it a lot to anyone who’ll listen.

- Memes memes memes memes memes

- Trendy™. He knows all the latest fashions and cool things, often tries to brand himself as the one to go to for fashion advice. He gives good advice most of the time (will tell you if your outfit sucks), but also makes questionable decisions (he stripped in the manga because he said Jackie Chen would do it too). Moral of the story, take some things he says with a grain of salt.

- Internet guy (knows all the hacks). He WILL find a free WiFi network anywhere he goes to avoid paying cellular, and knows way more hotspot passwords than he should via word of mouth and eavesdropping.

- Also, his phone is his lifeline. HK: “What do you mean, you’re taking it away from me?” CHN: “You’re using your phone too much; it’s bad for your eyes!!” HK: “No it isn’t! My eyes are fine; you’re the only one who has contacts in this family!! Give it back Yao!!!”

- Routinely called by other students to fix their computers and stuff, charges 25-75 dollars on average per fix. He is such a stickler with prices and absolutely refuses to go lower than a certain price. When Netherlands comes to him for a repair, they’ll haggle for hours and it’s not fun; Leon will postpone literally anything to keep on bargaining and not give up on his offer/price bar

- Avoids 8 AM classes as much as possible, but has never missed the ones he has to attend

- Learned Cantonese to spite Yao. I think Yao would’ve taught all his siblings (the East Asian squad) Mandarin, but they all picked up another language (or dialect of one) somewhere. Leon learned Cantonese specifically because he was lazy and it uses the same Mandarin characters (traditional vs simplified characters but similar enough) but is pronounced different enough that his brother can’t understand most of what he’s saying.

- Gets really whiney when he’s tired, or when he’s frustrated. Complains a lot.

- When he gets really angry, he becomes really cold. He’ll stop talking as much, but other than that he acts almost the same as usual, and it’s hard for people to pick up that he’s mad. However, everything he says kinda sounds passive aggressive, and he won’t laugh at anything. You have to be the first one to acknowledge something’s wrong, and then he’ll talk.

- Re: anger, it’s really awkward if he won’t talk to you because he’s usually really lighthearted, and seeing him serious is rather unsettling. Plus he can end any conversation when he wants to if he wants to make someone uncomfortable

- Is asked to be the DJ for a lot of college parties. He’s the type of person a lot of people vaguely know about because of just one “thing”, the “thing” being that he’s really good at mixing music and has good taste

- He makes sure everyone who even says hi to him knows about his music and his hobby, so he can get popular. Shouts about his Soundcloud profile (it’s not really bragging, but more like advertising himself)

- Types up all his notes onto his computer, but he uses so much slang that his notes read like weird text messages. His history notes read like a giant reality tv drama, because he tends to put things into modern terms and create his own way of remembering things, if that makes sense.

- Hasn’t touched a pencil in forever; he’s so comfortable in the digital world it’s insane

- Buys luxury brands to show off but is also really cheap, and judges certain products hard because they don’t live up to his very finicky standards (read my last post, it’s my take on his consumerism and is more in depth)

- Rather picky with his food, because he has really high standards. He will complain on and on about a restaurant’s noodle’s being too stale or too salty or something, finds flaws in everything when he wants to.

- B to A range grades, doesn’t stress too much over school. He doesn’t mind missing a couple of assignments (as long as they’re not big projects) and makes up for it with his other work

- Delays stuff until the last minute, but doesn’t panic or anything. It’s basically a habit by now; HK doesn’t mind it because it’s efficient and works for him. He can chill for the evening and then get all his work done between 3-7 am

- His relationship with his professors is okay; they all know his name and that he’s the “music dude” but he’s not too close with any of them; he prefers his friends’ company more. He’d get along with fun or young professors better, since they’re more in touch with “the youth” and he doesn’t see them as boomers

- Average at math, kinda bad at science, it’s just not his thing. He does better in the humanities, although he doesn’t exactly enjoy English and history classes. He’s very good at debating though, so his essays and thesis statements are very strong

- He’s pretty functional on 3 hours of sleep, but loves to sleep in when he can

- Proud of his Asian heritage and shows it!! He sometimes shows up at Asian American Culture Club but isn’t very dedicated, because he thinks some of the meetings are a little cringey

- He’d love to have a last name that isn’t Wang (such as any X starting Chinese surname) because he’d love to watch people struggle to pronounce it and he’d love to correct them (in a polite but simultaneously obnoxious way)

Thanks for reading! sksks these were much more general headcanons that probably could apply to nationverse too, but anyways... Next’ll be Taiwan probably!

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beinglibertarian · 6 years

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Why We Homeschool

As a homeschooled kid, I have been asked things like why people should homeschool… just a few times.

As you can tell by the font, I aM ToTaLlY nOt TiREd oF AnSWerIng this QUesTiOn.

But to save other homeschoolers from the joy of explaining ‘why they homeschool’ every single time they meet a person, I decided to write this article to explain it to people for them.

A lot of people can’t understand why people would want to homeschool when you have trained teachers, like these great teachers in the image below, who are so great they made headlines! These teachers are certified and can teach your child for you, for free! By free I mean they steal collect taxes from citizens for over $10,000 per student a year to teach them. Economically, it just makes sense to support your local schools.

It’s important to have your child raised in a safe, protected environment. Just look at some of these great success stories:

Without going to school, how would these students have such great social experiences like these? I mean, there is no possible way for a homeschooler to get a social life; it’s not like you can just Google “homeschool groups” and find dozens of groups in your area. That’s just crazy talk.

When I was a child, I remember my family having to go through the tragedy of finding other homeschoolers by joining dedicated homeschool group email lists and word of mouth. Who has time for that? I remember being so alone and antisocial that when I decided to put together a small homeschool play with a few friends, we had to have auditions since there were too many other lonely homeschoolers wanting to join us and we didn’t have enough parts for them. We also had to use local churches to practice in because we couldn’t find any other place large enough for us. In addition to preparing for the play, the cast members would hang out weekly, have parent-approved parties/overnight activities, post-play camping trips and we all became good friends. In fact, some of the cast members got so close that they decided to get married a few years later. Looking back, I realize how deprived of a real social life we had. If we had been public schoolers, I’m sure we would have had classes that would have given us better social lives. Any one of the teachers mentioned above would have made sure that I and my friends had a great time in there class!

People seem very concerned about what happens to homeschoolers when they go to college. I’d be concerned too, especially since studies are showing that homeschoolers do better at college than their peers. You don’t want your child to stand out at a college like that, do you? Just imagine the inequality they would cause by being better than the average student. My inner conformist just shudders at the thought.

The other major problem people have with homeschooling is that it puts the responsibility of the child directly in the hands of the parents. For parents that is scary. If they send their kids to public school, they could blame all of the child’s problem on a failing school system, politicians and lack of funding, then sleep at night, guilt-free, knowing that the government did their best to raise the kids. After all, it does take a village. Homeschool parents can’t do that. Since homeschool parents are directly involved in the education, and ultimately the raising of their own spawn, they cannot shrug off the blame to another. They have to shoulder the entire responsibility themselves! Who wants that kind of responsibility? If a parent wants responsibility, they would have gotten a dog, or perhaps, a cat, or even a goldfish! Not a child.

There’s plenty of other observations you can make about how homeschooling is a horrible thing to do, but I can very quickly answer why we do it. It’s because we are all crazy, socially-awkward, recluses who shriek at sunlight and have nightmares about social interaction.

* Shaun Persian is a 25-year-old enjoying the millennial dream of living in his folks’ basement while he discovers himself and finds new ways to blame the previous generations for their blatant disregard of the Constitution and natural law in our society. His hobbies include doing school, eternally listening to the audiobook of Atlas Shrugged in hopes of finishing it before he dies of old age, pretending to know how to use semi-colons properly; and writing the first 20 pages of his ‘next book’, then decide to write another story without ever finishing the first. He blames the baby boomers for his lack of completion in his writing.

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freedomsoapbox · 6 years

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Dear “Moderate” Liberal Millennial Christians: It’s Time To Pick A Side

I went to a conservative Christian high school. Most of my friends from high school are Christian. It may surprise you to learn that many of them are liberal Democrats or Democrat sympathizers, though if you yourself went to a Christian high school this may not surprise you at all.

It’s no secret that many Americans who claim to be Christian are liberal Democrats. But I mention the phenomenon of graduates from Christian high schools being (often becoming sometime during their senior year if my suspicions and experience are any indication) openly liberal to highlight the known fact that even conservative Christian institutions are producing, attracting, and harboring liberal activists.

I say “liberal activists” because, in my generation at least, there is no other type of liberal. Donald Trump’s election has resulted in what few of them were not openly political effectively being conscripted into The Resistance. Most of those millennial liberals who went to my high school are not as extreme as the stereotypical college feminist. They don’t talk about “safe spaces”, they don’t sympathize with Antifa (at least not openly), and most will be careful not to be seen defending Planned Parenthood too loudly. Their activism is mostly restricted to Facebook, just like most activism from liberals and conservatives alike seems to be restricted to Facebook.

But being friends on Facebook is enough to know which side they have picked. And as moderate as they may try to appear, they have picked a side. A few shared memes, liked posts, etc. communicate that they are members of The Resistance, even if they are only part of the reserve force.

I have also been able to intuit what they tend to think of the group comprised of me and the other students from my high school who chose to remain, or even become, conservative Christians. Now I want to make it clear that none of these liberal classmates have ever individually disrespected or mistreated me, and I have good relationships with most of them. But as a whole, they view us as relatively intelligent peers who have simply not been fortunate enough to break away from the mental shackles imposed on us by our church denomination through our parents and the conservative faculty at our high school. I could picture their collective advice to us being something like “Dr. Peterson (made up name of our Dean of Students) isn’t here anymore to fine you for not wearing a belt. You need to take some of what they taught us at that school with a grain of salt.”

That’s not to say I think all of them necessarily thought the strict dress code at our school was a bad thing, but the point is that our high school was very conservative, had its share of nonsense and bullshit from the administration, and in general they are kind of glad to be away from it. Well, I know for a fact that I and several other of my conservative peers are glad to be away from that place as well, but liberal millennials tend to view themselves as supporting characters in a real-life dystopian story, and it is clear that these liberal graduates view our Alma Mater as being beholden to the conservative dystopia that is currently headed but not entirely controlled by Donald Trump. And as for their classmates who also remain beholden to this dystopia, we’re kind of like that kid in the terrible movie Dead Poets Society who ratted out the Society to the school administration and got Mr. Keating fired, not because he really wanted to but simply because the agents of the dystopia convinced him that it was the right thing against his better judgement. They, on the other hand, are standing on their desks, and they are trying to convince us that it’s alright to do so.

This dynamic is not unique to alumni from Christian high schools. It is the same attitude with which many of the more “moderate” liberals of all age groups regard their conservative friends. It’s not that we’re bad people, it’s just that we don’t get it. It is the same attitude conveyed a little more condescendingly in articles like this, which explains a study that purports to demonstrate that being a steadfast conservative is often reducible to having stronger primal self-preservation instincts than liberals. If you want to drop the clinical facade and judge the article as the propaganda piece that it clearly is, what the author is really saying is that conservatives in middle America, by and large, are at best the unfortunate victims of repressed mild emotional trauma from our parents never letting us leave the house alone until age 13 for fear of kidnapping, and at worst atavists whose genetically predetermined responses to stimuli are more fitting for societies of a more, ahem, simple state of development. But don’t worry, society needs folks who possess such mindstates as well, after all the root of such attitudes is a healthy drive for safety and prudence (wink wink).

You see the liberals in my friend circles, especially liberal Christians who went to my high school, like to share articles like this on social media. They will also, without directly addressing us conservative peers, delineate on how such findings relate to the rise of Nazism and other hyper-nationalist movements in a manner that they no doubt think is erudite.

First of all, as a quick aside, I’d like to address this narrative of the rise of Nazism. Someone needs to point out that while the ability to regurgitate this tired thesis that Hitler was able to rise to power by manipulating people’s primal urges in a population that was starving and war-traumatized, by giving them an internal enemy (the Jews) to project their fear and bitterness onto, and by promising them a better life while not telling them very much about the uglier side of his agenda until they had been fully initiated, on an essay exam may have impressed your AP World History teacher, it is at best an oversimplification of history and at worst disingenuous. Germany in the 1930s was not just a country of poor farmers and unemployed Great War veterans who simply let themselves be led down Hitler’s path to hell before they realized their mistake. The fact of the matter is that Weimar Germany was already a society of people who by and large did not value freedom and democracy and which already suffered from widespread moral bankruptcy before Hitler became prominent. Hitler did not recruit the Brownshirts by inviting young men with no future to be part of something greater than themselves so much as he simply organized and militarized the criminal element of several major cities to serve his purposes. The Germans had to be carpet-bombed and then occupied before they were ready to finally be a part of the civilized West. And any attempt to connect the narrative of the Nazis to the rise of Trump is, you know, stupid.

But anyway, getting back to the point, I’m focusing on my liberal peers from Christian high schools across the nation because I know that we, conservative millennial Christians, will have to deal with them in the not-so-distant future. My liberal classmates may not have much respect for the conservative traditions of our school, but they will likely comprise a large share of the school’s future teachers, staff, PTO leaders, Alumni Association officers, and major donors. And that’s a problem. We know where their loyalties lie, and it is with the Democratic Party first and Christ and His church second. You cannot be a loyal Democrat and have those priorities reversed. These people will be leaven within the church’s institutions. We’ve seen what their so-called “moderate” liberal parents from the Boomer generation can do to such institutions simply by being tolerated within them even if most of them don’t go out of their way to be liberal activists. And they will be active soldiers in the war against conservatism and Christianity, whether they know it or not.

And so I’d like to address the remainder of this piece to those people. Not just my liberal classmates, but all moderate liberal Christians of my generation (hereafter “you”):You have picked a side, and it is the wrong one. You think that we conservative millennial Christians (hereafter “we”) are on the “wrong side of history”, but it is actually you who have chosen the wrong side. You may very well have chosen the winning side, but your side remains objectively, morally wrong (alternative title for this piece: Some Things Young Conservative Christians Wish We Could Say To Our Liberal Christian Friends If You Guys Would Hear Us Out).

We can still be friends. We have remained friends with you even after you have indirectly called us homophobes, fundamentalists, reactionaries, woman-haters, and the like. Many of you have not directly addressed us so to our faces, but we happen to fall into the group of people whom you regard as such. Nevertheless, we remain your friends.

But you need to realize that we have also chosen a side, and it is decidedly against everything you stand for. That does not mean we stand against justice, fairness, charity, and the like. It’s just that those are the things you claim to stand for, and I am speaking of the things that you are actually willing to stand for. When the chips are down, you will stand for the evil of abortion. You will stand for middle school students being forced to share shower facilities with members of the opposite sex, including adults. You will stand for police officers being railroaded by the media and the justice system for doing their job in cases where a young black man happens to end up dead.

And you will stand for the persecution of Christians. Specifically, you will stand for the persecution of Christians who have not thrown their lot in with the American persecutors of Christians, which means eventually that you will stand for the persecution of us.

For example, whenever you guys rail against a certain Christian artist or business owner for not accommodating a same-sex couple or someone who identifies as transgender, it never seems to occur to you that your Christian friends on the other side of the political aisle could and probably will be in that same position in the future. We are afraid to open our own businesses or go into creative professions because we know that the minute we cross the LGBT agenda, or possibly the abortion agenda, we are liable to have our lives destroyed by the government.

And you support this. You will side with the government when they come to take our businesses away from us or even impose criminal sanctions. Perhaps you will reason that it is regrettable but necessary, and that it’s our own fault in the end for resisting civil rights.

You know, I’m not going to go as far as to pull out the “if you’re a liberal Christian then you’re not really a Christian” card here, but Jesus does have some strong words of warning for those who persistently side with the world over Him. We all side with the world over Him, and we all do so often. Even the Apostles did. But you have formally chosen a side, declared it, and it happens to be the side that is waging war against Christ and His Church.Your excuses that you would actually be furthering Christ’s love are totally hollow. Jesus would not have baked a cake for a gay “wedding” (or built a gay couple a house to live in, being a carpenter), he would not (does not) support Planned Parenthood, and he would not (does not) support the gender transition process. If you disagree with this, you are disagreeing with Him, the Apostle Paul, not to mention the Church Fathers along with every serious prominent theologian throughout the history of Christianity until the past three or four decades. Of course, the church fathers never spoke about transgenderism, but that’s only because it is an insane demonic dystopian agenda that even the ancient pagans could hardly have conceived. They did speak on abortion and gay marriage, and their opinions on the matter hold a lot more weight than yours. Ecumenically speaking, the scholarship on these matters, along with evolution and some other things, within Christianity is as settled as you claim the scholarship is on climate change. The denominations and clerics that claim otherwise do so ashamedly and uneasily, and can accurately be described as “Bible deniers”. And don’t try to bring lame arguments regarding shellfish and eating pork into this, because those arguments have been quite thoroughly debunked, and if you haven’t heard the debunking it’s only because members of your side ban us from the message boards (one of the things that annoy us about debating with you liberal Christians is that, while you guys are generally more willing to at least debate us in the first place than your more extreme SJW allies, many of you have a tendency to need to have very basic theological concepts explained to you as if you've never heard them before. It makes it difficult for the discussion to progress when we constantly have to stop and do your liberal pastor's job for him.)

Of course, I wouldn’t expect that to hold much weight with atheists and hardcore secularists who don’t believe the Bible to have any authority anyway. They have chosen their side, and they are proud of it. But at least they won’t be attending a Christian college claiming to want an authentic Christian education and then working to tear down Christianity within that institution.

Your Christian brothers and sisters are being persecuted by the side you have chosen, and you will be required to assent to and sometimes participate in the persecution in order to be a loyal member of your Resistance. Although the gap may be closing, you are still the out-group within American Christianity, and yet you demand equal (greater) say and status. You call our kind Pharisees while enabling our persecution at the hands of the side you have chosen. You have gone out of your way to declare yourselves “allies” to every group from gays to transgenders to feminists to Muslims, but we never seem to part of your alliance. Not that we would want to, because you’re allied with enemy powers.

You see, we don’t disagree with you because we are more afraid or less college-educated or whatever else you have in mind. We disagree with you because the Bible is on our side, the facts are on our side, common sense are on our side, and moral principles are on our side, and not yours. We showed you footage of Planned Parenthood trafficking in baby parts, and you ignored it. You might be a little uncomfortable with it, but you would never be as vocally outraged as when a police officer shoots a black person and it gets the attention of the national media, despite the fact that in almost every single case your side has been objectively and completely wrong about both the facts and the law of the matter.

This is the point where many of you decide to pull out the “personally opposed” card. Mainly, you will use this card in the abortion debate, since you have long ago given up pretending to be “personally opposed” to gay marriage (although you might be one of the few left who will admit the inability to defend gay “marriage” on Biblical grounds but simply sidestep the issue by repeating the lie that the Constitution requires the government to recognize it even though it does no such thing, which is to say you think that the despot Supreme Court has absolved you of having to make any further defense of this abomination to others or to your own conscience) or gender conversion. Conveniently, you have already passed the point of having to worry about being a scared freshman girl who now has to share a locker room with a boy. And come to think of it, you’ve also conveniently passed the point of having to worry about being aborted. I’d just like to point out that your sudden “personally opposed” fig leaf when it comes to especially morally uncomfortable topics like abortion kind of clashes with your persona as a fighter for justice in the face of dystopia.

Of course you don’t have to use that card often, because compared to your more extreme, non-Christian contemporaries, most of the political talk we hear from you centers around the somewhat less controversial topics like gun control, immigration, environmentalism, welfare, etc. Much of what you have to say concerns how “uncaring” our side is more than it does any actual evidence, but at least you could hold the Democrat positions on such issues and still theoretically be a member in good standing of Christian orthodoxy. These are issues that the Bible does not give explicit guidance on like abortion and gay “marriage”. But there are still two main problems with you siding with Democrats on these issues. The first is that in most cases your opinions are wrong, often unconstitutional, and easily debunked. But more importantly for your case specifically, even your stances on these issues and the way you argue them betray a mentality that is fundamentally at odds with traditional Christianity. For example, when you argue that the New Testament commands us to accept waves of refugees from Islamic nations, or to expand the welfare state, or raise the minimum wage, or whatever else you think is “caring”, claiming that “Jesus would want it”, you are twisting His words and putting your own words in His mouth, you know, like how you claim we are doing whenever we articulate what the Bible clearly says about homosexuality. Twisting the words of the Bible to make them say something they do not and advance an agenda that is not Biblical is called heresy. Heresy is not something people who have chosen the side of God should be comfortable with. The Bible leaves room for Christians to disagree on the worldly, practical merits of things like welfare, immigration policy, and gun control. It does not leave room for you to make Jesus the champion of causes he never took up, especially since there is no reason to believe Jesus would take up a political cause despite most of the evidence being clearly against it.

What’s more, your championing of such lesser causes is often used as a fig leaf to deflect from your moral cowardice concerning bigger issues like abortion and homosexuality. You know you can’t win a serious theological argument about those issues, so you, like the Pharisees, make a show of how “caring” you are for others, mostly by making arguments that have no factual basis and usually require someone else to do the “caring” for you. And in so doing, you show signs of where your loyalties lie. When you got angry about Harambe being shot, you betrayed your anti-life colors, because many of your arguments boiled down to the implication that the kid somehow deserved to be mauled by a gorilla or at least that the gorilla had an equal right not to be shot as the human child had to not be mauled at the zoo. When you defended Michael Brown and said his death was a murder in bold spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you betrayed your warped sense of justice or general disdain for true justice. Whenever you demand that the welfare state be expanded or advocate socialism, you ignore the evidence reagarding the welfare state and socialism. Ignoring the evidence regarding such issues does not automatically reveal that you harbor anti-Christian values, but it does indicate that you care more about your public image than you do about the lives and families that have been destroyed by the welfare state and socialism, especially when you ignore the historical link between the abortion agenda and the welfare state and population control and socialism (or environmentalism).

And when you protest against the Trump administration for wanting to favor Christian refugees from Islamic countries despite that making every kind of humanitarian sense while simultaneously demanding that millions of unchecked Muslim men be let in and allowed to stay indefinitely, one has to wonder: whose side are you on?

And if most of what I have said does not actually describe you, if you actually are appalled by abortion, would defend my rights as a business owner if I were ever targeted by a vindictive gay couple, if you are willing to take an evidence-based or at least moderate and balanced approach to immigration and environmental regulations, and you don’t want to put cops in prison for doing their sworn duty, then one has to ask: why have sided with the American left?

Note: “Trump scares me” is not a good reason. I was a firm “Never Trump” conservative in 2016, and did not vote for him. That didn’t cause me to throw my lot in with the party that wants to force me to fund Planned Parenthood.

And one more thing: your more extreme secularist liberal friends that have gone full-SJW are not impressed with you. They aren't impressed with your virtue-signaling, they aren't impressed with the constant apologies you make for us, they aren't impressed with your attempts to prove yourselves as [the Christians that are cool and will respect you](http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/02/an-other-christian-responds-to-buzzfeeds-questions-christians-have-for-other-christians/) while treating us like an uncle who sometimes says racist things at Thanksgiving dinners but whom you love anyway. To them, you're still in the same group of square losers as us, it's just that they may think there is a little more hope for you.

I realize my words so far have been harsh, but they could be a lot harsher. I don’t want to burn bridges with my friends on the other side of the aisle, and I certainly don't think every cause they take up is completely without merit (for example, I do think conservatives have railed just a little too hard on the #MeToo thing, wrought with hypocrisy though the movement has been). But I’m writing this piece because, frankly, things are going to have to come to a head between our two sides. Your side has engaged an unrelenting campaign of attacks and persecution against those of us who have remained faithful to Christian orthodoxy for the past two or three decades at least, and we, orthodox Christian conservative millennials, are not going to defer responsive action against the agents of those who seek to destroy the church indefinitely, even if those agents include our friends. So when you take up teaching positions at Christian institutions only to reveal your sympathies with the militant LGBT movement, we are going to have to move to get you fired. When you start advocating the leftist social agenda within the church itself, we are going to excommunicate you. When your church is caught harboring illegal immigrants in brazen defiance of the Biblical command to submit to the civil authorities, we’re going to speak against your church and possibly work with the government to root them out. The Democrats and the liberal establishment have declared total war on conservatives and the Christian Church in particular. We are under no obligation to sit back passively and take it all the time.

So with that in mind, I ask one more time: whose side are you on?

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maximuswolf · 4 years

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A Story with Uncertain Results

Hey everybody, I’m new to this subreddit for a similar reason most new people around here are, which is that I was recently diagnosed with ADHD (age 18……. Better late than never I guess). I noticed a distinct lack of full stories on this subreddit, and I thought it would be interesting to talk about mine to compare.

I consider myself pretty smart. At least, that’s what I’ve always been told. I suppose I could be placed in that class of student who frustrates the “good students” by doing as well as them without studying or even paying attention. I never needed to. Elementary school is strange in that it is exceptionally boring from a schoolwork perspective for those even slightly above average in intelligence. I was the “smart kid” in elementary school, and American school systems do a pretty shitty job of identifying problems in students who aren’t failing. For you see, sustained attention problems do not present themselves when assignments take less than 10 minutes. Task switching is not a problem when you finish tasks so early you get a full 30 minutes between them. Emotional regulation problems aren’t considered when you are a boy (boys will be boys… ok boomer). Now, something that’s actually kind of funny about this is that I absolutely should have gotten lower grades than I did. There was a test I took in 3rd grade where I answered the correct letter for the previous question for the middle half of the test and skipped a question, and my teachers only counted the one I skipped incorrectly. According to them, I just went too fast and that was the only problem.

Fast forward to middle school, which I think is the point that a lot of undiagnosed kids crash for the first time. I bombed the second quarter of middle school with possibly more unsubmitted assignments than submitted ones. It took a ton of work to get back on track, but this wasn’t much of an issue either because, even though I had 30 assignments I needed to complete, none of them took more than 10 minutes and I had 3 weeks to do it. Now, had I been unassisted, they simply wouldn’t have happened, but my history teacher used her own class time to force me to complete my missing assignments for other classes and told my parents that it was just a “boy in middle school” thing. Apparently nobody bothered to note that this was not something that happened for literally any other middle school boy. I did fairly well in the rest of middle school, and now we reach the point in my life where all those emotional skills ADHD doesn’t come with kick in. I never had good friends. I’m sure you could’ve picked this up by now, but as a younger child I was extremely arrogant. In 8th grade though, I actually met some people with whom I spoke. Often. The most important person in this group to include in my story is my future girlfriend, and future future ex-girlfriend.

I was vaguely aware of her crush on me for a long time in 8th grade, but I am not a naturally emotionally available individual, and expressing feelings and physical touch made me extremely uncomfortable for a number of ADHD and non-ADHD related reasons. However, this girl was attached to me, and my lack of emotional tact steadily wore down on her emotional state. When I finally decided that I would actually date her in 9th grade, she had depression for reason both under and not under my control (her relationship with her parents was…. strange to say the least). Over time, it became difficult to talk to her and we both decided it would be better if we parted ways, but that started the long chain of persisting mental health problems that I struggle with today.

Low self esteem was a new experience for me, and anxiety wasn’t something I was used to either. They both hit pretty hard. Hard enough that I quickly also became depressed. My grades suffered, and so my mental state suffered, and so my grades suffered further. At the time, I attributed the grades dropping exclusively to my mental state. I barely ended that year without a C, ending with an A and 6 Bs. One B was a for a class in which I had 11 zero quiz grades throughout the year and a 44 test grade. In this class, we were expected to make 30-70 detailed notecards each unit for the subject we were on. Each one could take 5-10 minutes. And they were incredibly boring to write. Sounds like a great assignment for someone with ADHD. Ironically, I remember trying to force myself to write the notecard about ADHD (it was a psychology class, actually).

I struggled with depression off and on over the next two years and anxiety was a problem that just kept getting worse. Junior year went pretty well, and then Covid hit. I lost the ability to do anything. My anxiety prevented me from asking my teachers for help with anything, and I absolutely needed the help. The primary contributor to my anxiety was an inferiority complex developed through my math classes. I just could not do as well as my peers. I would carry our table through problems during units, but when we got to the test, I would do a good 10 points worse than anyone I thought I should be equal to or better than. I also worked to the time limit on every last one, frequently not finishing them.

My grades were shaky at best for every year of high school other than the first, and this wasn’t something anyone, including my parents had seen from me before. I was constantly bombarded by my parents’ assumption that I had just ceased to care and just didn’t want to do any work. It was destroying me. At one point near the end of sophomore year, I genuinely considered offing myself for about 5 minutes at midnight sitting on the couch of my pitch black living room. I didn’t, but it was closer than I’d like to admit.

Back to senior year, and my depression had mostly subsided. I’m dating again, a rather tomboyish girl who I love dearly (she’d cringe at that sentence). My anxiety ever worsened. I procrastinated asking for college recommendation letters long enough that I had to wait to apply regular decision because my teachers would only write recs if given that extra time, and I don’t even know why I couldn’t get myself to ask. Logically it would be a fear of rejection, but I have no idea why that would be as I’ve never really been rejected in a meaningful situation.

My grades have been ok in online school, but the more important part of this final year of the story is finally talking to my pediatrician about my anxiety…. at 18 years old. Some of the problems I mentioned were apparently inconsistent with anxiety, so I was also referred for a psych eval for neurodevelopmental disorders, but I immediately started therapy for anxiety and depression, which had been alright.

I was evaluated in mid-December, and on the 17th of January I had my telehealth appointment for the evaluation. Fuck. When asked by my therapist what I thought might be wrong with me, I responded “social anxiety and mild ADHD.” Boy was I understating. Apparently feeling as though you are far behind your true potential for several years and being constantly bombarded with others telling you you aren’t good enough does a thing to a person. About that off and on depression I mentioned earlier? BAM cyclothymia. Generalized anxiety disorder wasn’t a surprised, but what did surprised me was my diagnosis of not mild, not even just moderate, but moderate to severe predominantly inattentive ADHD. I’ve actually got the scores from the WAIS-IV I took to compare sections that are heavily impacted by ADHD and those that are not. The section least impacted by ADHD is Verbal Comprehension, on which I scored a 127. My other scores are the real kickers though (I sound old here don’t I…. fuck…. I blame having old parents): Perceptual reasoning: 96, Processing Speed: 89, Working Memory: 80.

Anyways, that was something of a shock. Today was my second day on the minimum dose size for Concerta, and….. I feel exactly the same. I might be a little more awake than usual? I’m also noticeably more tired around 6 pm, but that might just be that I have to wake up earlier now.

So anyways, that’s where I am right now. I’m sure this is difficult to read and I apologize for dumping my life onto this post, but I thought it would be interesting to hear some other peoples’ more detailed experiences, thanks for reading if you got this far.

TL;DR Honestly I don’t think I can really TL;DR this but basically, slightly worse version of stereotypical 18 y/o diagnosis of inattentive type

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Confessions of an Incredibly Tired Teacher during COVID-19

Preface: I want to preface my statement with stating that this is not to rag on the education system for taking precautions when it comes to the COVID-19 panic. These precautions are absolutely necessary for the continuance of education. This is merely to express my frustrations with distance learning.

I am tired.

I am tired of 2020. I am tired of Covid. I am tired of distance learning.

I have the unique perspective of being a fresh out of college educator who experienced distance learning as both a college student and, now, as a high school educator. The only reason I acquired my position was due to the fact several teachers retired from my school system due to the pandemic. I love my job. I love my kids. They are not the problem. The problem is that distance learning is not operating in any kind of effective way.

I attended university during the pandemic. I witnessed my ADULT peers refuse to attend Zoom lectures, so when my students, who are literal CHILDREN, refuse to come to class, how on earth am I supposed to be angry? I can’t be. I can’t be, because I completely understand. In fact, I truly, from the bottom of my heart, feel horrible for you guys.

How can I be angry at my kids when they don’t show up for online school during snow days? COVID has taken so much from you guys -- proms, school parties, field trips, sports -- and it absolutely is not fair that you guys can’t have the joy of an ACTUAL day off from school due to the weather. How can I be mad when my kids don’t turn in their work, because they are just so ready for their break, that, mind you, has already been shortened, because American education cannot seem to get its act together to function halfway efficiently. This time has especially been trying on students with special needs, whom have struggled the most with these changes.

They are done. And I am done.

I have seen several people, mostly Baby Boomers, complaining that “kids have it so easy, I wish I could stay home and play on the computer all day instead of go to school.” My response to the people who say this is shame on you, because you are part of the problem. These kids do not simply get to stay home and do nothing all day. They are learning, and they are learning virtually in the middle of a global pandemic that is going to make human history, and, because of this global pandemic, they are facing sets of challenges that no other generation has faced before. I try to have patience with remote learning because we are essentially the guinea pig generation, and, while I hope that this never has to happen again, I hope that, in the event that it does, the system improves.

But right now, the system is failing. It is failing the kids, and it is failing the teachers. And I, for one, am done.

#education #covid #covid-19 #covid19 #coronavirus #distance education

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pimdak-hilltopple · 5 years

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Revolution 1.4

(Sorry for any misspellings! I was writing this to boomers and thought I’d share it here :) 1.4 trillion in debt. That is bound to be a massive roadblock to many people. IDK if you've seen the many articles with headlines like "Millennials are KILLING the fast food industry!" Or something to that effect. A massive factor to the economy is how much "disposable income" or spending money a generation has. Due to things like rising living costs and stagnant wages, the younger generations just can't influence the economy much beyond being too poor to indulge in any luxuries. I saw a comment on FB talking about how my generation doesn't buy motorcycles anymore. It was meant as a joke but my only reply was "They're expensive..." I want a motorcycle one day but I don't even have a working car.

What I'm saying is-by canceling student debt and making college free, my generation would start having more disposable income to invest in the market or a small business. We'd be able to get a high education (which imo can only be a good thing for a society) and use that acquired knowledge to change the world. Already we're seeing a generation more tuned into politics than ever before and I think that will only continue. I mean...there IS a reason why Sanders has everyone beat when it comes to grassroots support. More volunteers. There are younger politicians, like AOC, in office than ever. Greta Thurnberge is a globally recognized climate activist.-She won a Nobel for her efforts in starting and leading the largest activist campaign in the world-

What I'm basically saying is, many people are sick and tired of the status quo. Where they felt like their voice wasn't heard and the world they lived in was rigged against them. The deck was stacked not in their favor. And they demand change. Obama promised change but didn't deliver. Clinton was the embodiment of the establishment and lost to Trump who promised change but has been extremely divisive. Then along comes Sanders. A man who hasn't flip flopped his entire career. An incredibly consistent politician who's entire platform is built around the working class people. He refuses to take money from billionaires. That makes him attractive to my generation. We grew up hearing grips about how crooked and greedy politicians are. Hearing about money in politics and here's a man who can't be bought. Who welcomes the hatred of the billionaires and the establishment alike. People love that.

My generation grew up being told to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" but now live in a world where 53% of America is living paycheck to paycheck. Trapped in student debt. With rising living cost and stagnant wages. The degrees the do get no longer guarantee them a job....My generation now has some of the highest rates of suicide. Number not matched since the world wars.

Given all of that...is it truly any wonder why so many have taken to shouting for a revolution? Why don't they seem bothered by establishment hated topics like socialism/communism? People are starting to see the hatred of the establishment as an endorsement. Like when Hillary Clinton went after Bernie saying no one liked him. His popularity jumped and other presidential candidates spoke up and hugged him on stage.

It's crazy but my generation has a wholly different way of communication. It may seem silly but a lot of us learn about the world through things like Youtube and social media. Where our voices are more likely to be heard. Many use their degrees to educate on sites like YT. And because of that, people like me exist. I was a republican. I heard the news through Fox or my mom, or whenever the "adults were talking". But after I got YT I started learning more and more about the world and politics. First I was center-right. then Center. Libertarian for a while before hitting lefttube. Or Breadtube as it's called now. And it didn't take long after that. I learned, considered and here I am. An Anarcho-socialist who spends most of my conversation just explaining the definition of the words relevant to the discussion and dispelling propaganda. (Doing so actually got me into studying propaganda and wow it's crazy and fun) We will create a society where these things never happen again. Either through the diligent transformation and improvement of the current one or it's abolition. We've grown up in a world where the flaws of our current society have been on full display. The curtain Oz hid behind caught fire. We're too poor to buy the bullshit that elite have been selling!

#revelution #student debt #medicare4all #breadtube #lefttube

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When i quoted my car insurance, i used my apartment address. After i bought the insurance, i asked them to change to PO BOX as my mailing address. Later on, when i moved to another apartment, i didn't update my current physical address with my insurance company because i am using my PO BOX as my mailing address so far. My question is if somehow i get a car accident, will the insurance company deny my claim because of not telling them the current physical address? Additional information the past and current of my apartment address are still in the same state, Texas.""

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Will my car insurance go up if this happens?

In NY, if you are under 18 and drive past 9pm you can have your license revoked for 90 days. If you are under 18 and drive past 9pm, get your license revoked, will it drive up the cost of insurance? I have State Farm insurance.""

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If my dad added me onto his insurance policy (Farmers) on one of our family cars, am I allowed to drive the other car as well? I believe that both cars are under the same policy, since the insurance company asked my mom which car she was driving when she was making a claim. Would I be allowed to drive both cars?""

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Talking about “talk shows.”

Rob Hoffman

on November 16, 2017 at 5:30 AM

Let’s face it, there’s only one way to speak to somebody, and that’s from behind a desk. The next time you have to speak to somebody regarding just about anything, and you are not behind a desk, chances are they are not going to listen. In other words, America loves “talk shows.”

For reasons that will most likely be lost to future generations, the American people enjoy watching people talk, and if the host of that conversation is behind a desk, it would seem to carry a gravitas that the American viewing public responds to in a way that says, “Sure, that guy is qualified to ask questions of Paris Hilton, Bryan Cranston, LeBron James, and Supreme Court Associate Justice, Sonia Sotomayer,” (By the way, that’s a pretty enviable line-up for any talk show.) after all, even though nobody could possibly be qualified to interview such a diverse group, the fact that the person is sitting behind a desk makes him instantly qualified.

For those of you who are not familiar, this kindly looking gentleman is Jack Paar, the second host of “The Tonight Show.” The original host was comic “genius,” Steve Allen, the man who invented everything. Paar would run afoul of the censors when he uttered the shameful phrase, “Water Closet,” when telling an excessively tame joke on his show. The censors cut it from his broadcast without consulting with him, infuriating the mercurial Paar. Personally, in a nation where every other public figure of any renown has turned out to be a serial sexual abuser, it’s refreshing to see our sense of decency defended by the friendly neighborhood censor. (You Tube)

The concept of the television talk show can really be broken down into three categories.

The Late Night Talk-Show – This was made popular by the late, great Johnny Carson

The Afternoon Talk-Show – Here is where you’ll find oodles of pleasant personalities like Ellen DeGeneres, Dinah Shore, Mike Douglas, and of course Oprah!!!! This brand of entertainment is rarely controversial, and the content is “light.” How light you ask? So light your television might literally float away. Sometimes on these programs, the host can be seen giving out advice, crooning the occasional standard, dancing awkwardly, and handing out gifts like a new car!!!!!

The Splashy/Trashy Tabloid Influenced Talk-Show – This brand of television talk is populated by the likes of Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, and Geraldo Rivera. Here you’ll find the hard-hitting discussions that typically revolve around crazy “Klansman,” jealous girlfriends, and contested paternity cases.

Could you live with Regis Philbin? Well, Phil Donahue did at Notre Dame,and after surviving that ordeal, he went on to practically invent daytime talk television. He also married that girl. You know that girl who starred in “That Girl.” She’s free to be you and me? (Getty Images)

The late night talk-show is probably the most copied format in all of entertainment history, and it really owes its existence to two individuals, Johnny Carson and David Letterman. The format is essentially this: A pleasant, midwestern looking man in an expensive suit comes out to wild, over-the-top applause, tells some topical, supposedly biting jokes that attack the status quo, pokes fun at the modern foibles of the era, including what is usually a harmless and superficial attack on whomever the current occupant of the White House is, and then follows their monologue up with a skit or some sort of comic segment where the host sits at his desk and does some sort of bit. Then the first guest comes out, usually for one or two segments, followed typically by a second, less famous guest, and then finally, either a young or “B” level comedian comes out and does a few jokes, or a singer or band performs their latest song. There’s usually a ton of commercials, and the television viewing audience rarely makes it to the end of the show since they are too tired.

One of my all-time favorite bits from “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” Carnac the Improbable.” One of the things that I loved about Carson was that he seemed to be letting the audience in on the bit, and that he knew that at best it was corny, and at worst it was awful. However, Johnny used this idea to make the skit even funnier, while also appearing to be drifting in and out of character, thus increasing his “hip-ness.” Of course, it was all an act, but he was so effortless at it, the audience never really caught on. (You Tube)

I have nothing against the current crop of late night television talk show hosts, in fact, some of them I try to watch on a fairly regular basis. I loved the “Daily Show” with Jon Stewart, and I enjoy his replacement, Trevor Noah. I like Stephen Colbert as well as Jimmy Kimmel. I appreciate Jimmy Fallon’s talent, and the fact that he tries to do something different, as well as the fact that he’s a local boy done well, hailing from nearby Saugerties, New York, and attended even “nearer-by” St. Rose College. However, I find his giggling, and adolescent schtick a bit much for my ever-increasingly curmudgeon like attitude, especially since he’s only a little younger than me.

The fact that there are three fairly successful late night talk shows on at the same time is a borderline miracle, and a sign of how much the times have changed. For decades, ABC and CBS attempted to dethrone Carson from his late night perch, only to see the “King of Late Night” swat away would-be pretenders to his throne, including Joey Bishop, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, Arsenio Hall, and Dennis Miller, (The great impressionist Rich Little used to do a killer Johnny Carson. I always thought that ABC or CBS should have just hired him to do his Carson impression on their networks. It could have worked. Carson was just mailing it in the last ten years he was on the “Tonight Show” anyway.

Johnny definitely had his regulars that would appear every few months on his program. Angie Dickinson was definitely one of his all-time favorites. When Johnny wasn’t listening to one of Angie’s inane stories, the two were usually making “googly eyes” at each other. (You Tube)

For many baby-boomers, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson represented a coming of age. I can remember when I was first able to stay up late enough to watch “Johnny,” and I can recall thinking, wow, I’m like an adult now. There was something “cool” about being old enough to stay up and watch Johnny. I remember thinking how “hip” Carson seemed, and that in some way, he represented “adult” humor.

As it would happen, Johnny wasn’t really all that hip, especially when he was compared to the man most people considered his heir apparent, David Letterman. Like Carson, Letterman had a laid back “Midwestern” attitude, but delivered his comments with a sarcastic edge that let the audience know, “Yeah, a lot of this stuff is stupid, and I’m aware that we’re not exactly curing cancer here.”

David Letterman might not have been the classic “good-looking” television host, but his “painted on hair,” and his famous gap-toothed smile, seemed to enhance his outsider, “wise-ass” status. (Getty Images)

David Letterman actually got his start as a television weatherman. Letterman became a legendary stand-up comedian out in Los Angeles, and eventually became a fixture on the Tonight Show. After a failed stint as a daytime talk-show host, he became the host of Late Night, and it was in this gig where Letterman took Carson’s model, and made it all his own. He innovated such famous bits such as “Stupid Pet Tricks,” “Stupid Human Tricks,” games with the studio audience where he gave out to all contestants, canned ham, pre-recorded shtick that was filmed outside the studio, and of course, his greatest gift to the world “Larry Bud Melman.” Letterman’s program appealed to older high school students, as well as the college crowd. Letterman represented “hipness” on television, and while he was unceremoniously passed over by NBC in favor of Jay Leno when it was time to replace Carson, Letterman was given a late night show on CBS , and he established the network as a competitor in the late night television market.

It’s not exactly Abbott and Costello, but David Letterman and Larry Bud Melman, a.k.a. Calvert DeForest, produced some memorable moments on the Late Show. (You Tube)

Afternoon talk-shows tend to be a little softer and fluffier. Oprah Winfrey of course is known as the “Queen of Afternoon Talk.” Oprah parlayed this success into becoming one of the most influential and wealthiest women in entertainment. Oprah has established herself as the last word on love, race, which books to read, how to seek forgiveness for a public transgression, who we should vote for, and how to give away a car to a television audience. However, most afternoon talk-shows were a little bit like “lite” versions of the late night fare.

Mike Douglas was an extremely likable crooner who hosted a very popular afternoon “schmooze-fest,” that featured guests as eclectic as John Lennon, (Who along with Yoko, actually guest hosted with Douglas for a week’s worth of shows.) to Moe Howard from the legendary Three Stooges.

There are two things I’d like to point out here. First, give it up to Mike Douglas, always a good sport, duking it out with Moe in a pie fight, and secondly, you gotta love Moe keeping his classic hairdo, even though his hair is all gray. He’s dedicated to the look. (You Tube)

Even more incredible though was the fact that John Lennon and his wife, Yoko, appeared for a week straight on the Mike Douglas Show as special guest hosts.

This is one of those odd curiosities. The ultimate square breaking bread with the ultimate in cool. (And John Lennon wasn’t too shabby either.) I wonder if 50 Cent ever appeared on Oprah? (You Tube)

Basically, the afternoon talk-show is good for learning tips on how to keep your children safe at Halloween, dieting ideas, fashion advice, and of course, the inevitable cooking segment. Occasionally an “A-list” celebrity will appear, and act very humble while pretending to be best friends with the host, or if it’s Ellen, they’ll dance, and act a little silly. The most probing question that will be asked on an afternoon talk-show would probably be something along the lines of, “So tell me Julia Roberts, how do you keep your skin so exfoliated?”

Perhaps the most popular type of daytime talk-show, at least for a few years, was the “flashy-trashy” kind. This is the Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, or Sally Jesse Raphael category of talk where literally anything can, and often does happen. These are the programs where Nazis, Klansman, as well as dead-beat Dads crawl out of their rabbit holes and appear for us so we can all rail against them. Jerry Springer, the former mayor of Cincinnati hosted what was by far the wildest and most popular of this brand of talk-show. However, once it came out that Springer’s program was scripted, and basically the equivalent of professional wrestling, he lost a lot of the buzz that had at one time made “Jerry” the name to beat in afternoon trash-talk.

I’m not sure what Jerry has cooked up here, but I’m sure it’s classy, and um, fake. (You Tube)

The sad part regarding daytime trash-talk, is that most of it can trace its roots to Phil Donahue. Donahue’s program dealt with serious issues, particularly those that impacted women. Donahue would frantically run around his studio, trying to make sure that as many members as possible of his audience could be heard. However, from Donahue’s noble beginnings, an unfortunate sideshow emerged where sizzle eclipsed substance, which unfortunately took us from Donahue to Springer.

Of course today, in addition to the three white males who host late night talk-shows, there is Bill Maher, Chelsea Handler, very late night talk-shows featuring the likes of Seth Myers, as well as the soft-spoken Charlie Rose, the professorial talk-show host who can be found late-nights on PBS. Rose’s talk-show is a bit of throwback to the days of Dick Cavett. Cavett’s softer approach allowed for real conversation to take place, minus the bells and whistles one finds on so much of today’s distracted talk-show programs. It’s amazing what one can learn about an individual when the audience isn’t “hooting,” and the band isn’t blaring.

Dick Cavett may not be a household name today, but in his prime, he interviewed all of the biggest stars in politics as well as in the world of entertainment. For instance, did Dick Cavett interview Groucho Marx? You bet your life! (You Tube)

If Johnny Carson and David Letterman were the gold standard in television talk-show excellence, who are the all-time bottom feeders. Well, since nobody asked, here are my all-time worst talk-shows:

The Magic Hour – This starred Magic Johnson as a late night talk-show host, with Sheila E. as his musical director. It only last two months, and that may have been too long. The highlight of Magic’s program, an appearance by the Howard Stern band, “The Losers.”

The Chevy Chase Show – This lamentable effort lasted only three weeks, and that was probably too long. Let’s just say that this wasn’t in Chevy’s wheelhouse, and he was much better suited for hosting “fake news” on Saturday Night Live.

The Pat Sajak Show – CBS “spun the wheel” on Sajak, the very successful host of Wheel of Fortune, but the quips he dropped so effortlessly on “Wheel,” seemed to elude him on his late-night attempt. Not even having Vanna White turning letters behind him naked was going to save this program from going “bankrupt.” (Now that was a healthy amount of “Wheel of Fortune” jokes to squeeze into one blurb.)

Wow, I can’t understand how Sajak’s program failed. I mean, this is a “heavyweight” line-up. By the way, and I’m just spit-balling here, I’m guessing that this picture was taken before Rush’s “Oxycontin phase.” (You Tube)

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the worst, most fascistic talk-show that ever existed, “The Morton Downey Show.” Downey was a chain-smoking lunatic who screamed at his guests, while his meat-headed audience would get all of their “Nazi-like” anger out, and egg on old Mort in his insanity.

As always, it will be interesting to see who the next great talk-show host will be. I’m thinking that Howard Stern could still take a run at it. He already does the best interviews on radio, why not take a crack at television. How about Barack Obama? I think people would like to “open up” to the ex-president. Perhaps Harvey Weinstein can find employment as a talk-show host? They say that the best way to elicit interesting answers from your guests is to not let them feel too relaxed. Is there anybody who can make people less relaxed than pervy Harvey?

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