Todd's Mischief Blog

John McCain demonstrates to Piers Morgan just how much of a doddering old fool he's become. Quote, "I am always intrigued by the fact that when I disagree with my own party leadership, my own president...then I’m a brave maverick. When I’m taking on others, then [I'm] just an angry old man." Mr. McCain, consistent opposition to your own party is a weak form of consistency, especially when you oppose so many disparate ideas. Also, Morgan wasn't patting you on the back, he was playing you for controversy. Diane Feinstein very bizarrely argued at a Senate hearing that it is legal to hunt humans with high-capacity magazines. Quote, "We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines." Okay--benefit of the doubt--she obviously misspoke in crafting an ill-conceived parallel. But it's still pretty funny and excellent fodder...

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...