Eyes of Viktoria a horse i bet at 12 years old who only came on to make board and not win at Suffolk Downs. Poor lady. Brave and like so many brave in an uncaring universe are defeated and the common notion of a just world is laid bankrupt. The Muslim terrorist who beheaded journalist Perlman reported dead as India strikes Muslim Pakistan which…[Read more]

They tortured her. Of course they did.

The train station in Moscow is beautiful and modern! And our dear leader says we can trust Putin.

Simon,

Individuality is related to freedom. The British believe in individuality, or at least, it’s celebrated alongside conformity.

Obviously not celebrated equally when the government tells people to think before they post on social media.

Strega,

She was in a classroom around age twelve, and the class was required to write the one word they felt typified Americans. Everyone else wrote “Individuality”, and she wrote “Conformity” 🙂

This isn’t a country that celebrates individualism. We would be looking at the conformists to introduce new education programs promoting individua…

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Jake,

loaded question number one. Not gonna address the union secured and tenured part. I will just say in general our compulsory education generally fails in that regard. Occasionally a teacher of unusual perspicuity and concern makes a difference. In general however it is closer to all in all just another brick in the wall.

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@_Robert_  Put you and her on an 8:30 AM train and it is a completely different picture…

I agree and it usually was. I had (have) no problem with anyone being a goth. I am all for people expressing their own individuality, especially with a subversive or non-conformist undertone towards “the system”.  I lived in a squat house with 12 people f…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@strega – Everyone else wrote “Individuality”, and she wrote “Conformity”. I had a summer relationship with a goth girl in the mid 1980’s. My style at the time (if style is the word to use) was t-shirt, jeans, sneakers and a packet of Rizla. She was full goth, all the time. She was trying to persuade me to “change…

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@Strega – Everyone else wrote “Individuality”, and she wrote “Conformity”.

I had a summer relationship with a goth girl in the mid 1980’s. My style at the time (if style is the word to use) was t-shirt, jeans, sneakers and a packet of Rizla. She was full goth, all the time. She was trying to persuade me to “change my lifestyle choices” or whateve…[Read more]