Should The Term 'Homelessness' Be Retired?

 There was an interesting point made on the Fox program, 'The Five', for yesterday....on the term 'homelessness'.

It was created as one single umbrella, and you could talk about various folks who fell under the umbrella.  The problem is....these were various groups.

There were the people down on their luck....the drug addicts....the nutcases....the people with zero job skills....and the people who were severally abused in their youth.

Each has a different issue and a different solution....so it's a waste of time to package them into one single focus group.

In some areas of the US now....you've got a 'Mogadishu-like' situation brewing....where it's not really the police that you need to come and rescue you....it's some lite-Army-pretender unit.  

It's time to crank out some new words to define people seem to drift around the homeless umbrella....and identify them correctly.  

If You Read Between The Lines: Biden's Supreme Court Committee

 After a lot of talking and thinking....Biden's commission on updating the Supreme Court came to a conclusion.  The only thing that they did seem to agree upon....maybe there ought to be a 'cycle' where a Supreme Court judge stands for 18 years, then moves on.  This would be done in a cycle, ensuring each President had one chance to nominate a new guy/gal.  

Getting this actually done?  Well....you'd have to go to the Constitution, and get a two-third's vote of both the House and Senate....then get 38 states to agree to this.

Added to this burden, logically....once you openly discussed this 'forced' upon the Supreme Court.....the public would ask why you couldn't do the same thing to the House and Senate....enforcing a 18-year cycle upon them.  

For a lot of Democrats who felt the commission would write the script to 'fix' their court problem?  This was a total failure.  

USA Today Headline: Is Math Racist?

 Yesterday, as a topic for it's daily paper.....USA Today asked the question.....is math racist?

I've seen the subject on more than a couple of occasions, and generally laughed over the discussion.

There are around four issues which seem to 'hover' above this topic.

First, ever since Black Lives Matter started up.....they needed 'targets' to hype upon and this math business is one of them.  The belief is that black kids do badly in math and never grasp various applications.  So in the general mindset....it has to be racist.  In this case.....I would suggest that there are substantial numbers of math instructors (across America) who are not capable of teaching math.  

If you are in a crappy and marginally-run school....the odds are your math scores (from both whites/blacks) will be limited.  It's not a racist thing.....it's more like a poor instructor problem. 

Second, there are some individuals who believe you can dumb-down math, and make it simpler.  You know....the same way that you can dumb down geography, English, science, etc.  The problem with this logic is that math has spent several thousand years getting to the point where it is about as dumbed-down as it can possibly be.  

Third, if you tried to just stamp math as marginally required, and let kids off the hook at the fifth-grade level (doing the same for English, History, Science).....then you might as well release/graduate kids at the sixth-grade and send them off to Burger King to flip burgers.  

Fourth and final.....with the exception of the French Fry guy at BK.....there just aren't any jobs in America where math does not occur.  I know it's shocking but if you go dig into most all jobs (even as President)....some kind of math occurs with jobs.  Even dope dealers, transmission mechanics, and bartenders have to deal with some element of math to be successful in life. 

Observaions

 1.  Ukraine and Putin.  It would appear the game plan for Biden is to arm Ukraine with US weapons....thus getting Putin closer to the invasion goal.  People will be shaking their heads in January on how this mess got created.

2.  Fauci is now admitting this travel-Africa ban was hastily done......might go back in the next couple of days to undo this.

3.  Someone put up statistics to show the late-night TV crew (Colbert, Kimmel, etc) are in a spiral with the youth audience.  Apparently, some of them woke up and realized they aren't that funny.

4.  There's been some kinda claim this week that Joe Biden is getting more negative press/media attention....than Donald Trump.  I've probably wasted an hour pondering over this.  The suggestion here is like comparing chocolate ice cream, to vanilla ice cream.  It's a totally different kind of attention....where Biden seems to go walking out in some cow-field, intentionally stepping into a cow-paddy every third step....then standing there grinning while the Press-Spokesperson remarks that he might have accidentally stepped into a paddy.  Then he repeats this over and over.