As part of the heady intellectual atmosphere around here, we get to listen to Fox News in the cafeteria at all hours. This morning’s hard-hitting journalism was a rant against schools not teaching children cursive anymore. Even better than the raw retardation of this topic as serious news was the way the argument was framed. They didn’t talk about whether or not cursive was useful in and of itself; rather, they framed it as ‘writing on paper’ vs. ‘writing on computer’ and decided (O wise guardians!) that teaching ‘the children’ to write on paper is still important, and, by God, they weren’t going to lay down to any liberals who say different.
Now, how the fuck not wanting to teach children useless and antiquated things is an exclusively liberal attitude I have no idea. But there you have it.