Todd's Mischief Blog

It's Sunday again, and you know what that means. Time to clean up the mess left by the morning talk shows yet again. So, as I pause between loads of my own laundry, let me see if I can clear away a few of the loads left by the media. CBS Sunday Morning started the conversation with a piece on skyrocketing college tuition rates. This is a topic that conservatives need to be interested in as well as liberals. It’s not enough to simply say, “Not everyone should go to college.” The majority of employers use a bachelor’s degree as a weeding tool for their job applicants. That needs to change, but until it does, it doesn’t win any political points to tell a large swathe of Americans to scale-down their ambitions. Of course, CBS’s look was expectedly limited. They point out the extreme rise in tuition rates and simply scratch their heads. The point is, this problem is comprehensible, but not by the left. Conservatives need to get in on the conversation, otherwise it will be wholly owned b...

Laundry day again! And you know what that means. To be honest, all the Sunday shows blurred together this week. Maybe because they all covered identical topics (moreso than usual) or maybe because I'm sick. Of course, it could be because I am typing on a Kindle (hence the delay, sorry). My lappy took a refreshing drink courtesy of my four year old girl. Still, I have thoughts to share.   Agency Scandals Yawn! The spin here was so dizzying as to make one nauseous. The takeaway is that this issue is so unimportant to the American people that all four major networks devoted a large chunk of their Sunday shows-- Meet the dePressed even interviewing David Axelrod--to tell us just how little we care. Glad they cleared that up.   0bama v. Romney Clearly the White House is struggling to find a meme against Mitt, to the point it raised comments among all the lefties. Is Romney a spineless flip-flopper or a right wing hard-liner? Seems the White House aims to unify the two contradic...

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The lost lesson of Jada Williams' essay on Frederick Douglass While most of her peers were spending Christmas break diligently avoiding anything that resembled schoolwork, 13-year-old Jada Williams spent her time reading The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and preparing an essay on the book. What Williams read moved her and opened her eyes to some of the problems extant in her Rochester, NY public school. In her essay, which she shared with her class, Williams drew parallels between the appalling illiteracy rate in city schools and the illiterate state slave owners kept blacks in. And she took aim at her teachers. That was apparently a mistake. According to Jada and her mother, the essay launched a campaign of harassment directed at the girl, ultimately forcing her to transfer to another school. I will admit, at first I was skeptical. I thought perhaps Jada’s essay was merely a diatribe of racial grievances with no basis in reality or the book and that the harassment w...

I do two things every Sunday: I wash laundry, and I watch the morning news shows. The laundry makes everything is fresh and clean. the The Sunday shows just leave a mess behind. CBS Sunday Mourning could have done my little heart good with an exposé on the many problems with the FDA approval process. Unfortunately, they highlighted the wrong problems. Instead of focusing in on the sluggish approval processes that keep life changing and saving devices from patients in need of them, they zeroed in on 0.2% of people who receive a faulty FDA-approved implant. The voice of reason in the segment cautioned that a zero-risk system would lead to no medical progress, a far worse proposition. But CBS gave the final word to the brother of a man whose defibrillator implant failed—a man who, of course, thinks one failure is too many. Sadly, the final call was for a decidedly faulty government agency to do more. Bah! On the flipside of progress, CBS did do a fair examination of a potential new sour...