Window into the future... transgender running on high school girls track team and ready to tear up the Connecticut state championship:

http://www.courant.com/sports/high-schools/hc-hs-cromwell-track-andraya-yearwood-0407-20170406-story.html

Won't be long before universities begin to actively recruit transgenders to give their women's teams an edge. Once the scholarships become available, the number of transgenders at the high school level will grow like Jack's beanstalk.

Bring it on... rolling like a bowling ball toward the glass house of Title IX.

Nota bene: the most famous American transgender was the Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon.

Feminism will become even more confused.

The city told Fisher that the Mario inflatable would have to go or he would face a daily $100 fine. The real kicker is that he was told he would be able to have an inflatable Santa, Easter Bunny or any other holiday-related character in its place.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/04/florida_officials_ban_inflatable_mario_and_maybe_even_freedom_of_speech

I'd hate to be the guy in charge of raking those leaves though.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtFeeIings/status/850479567450120192

Robots reading news:

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/159453937346/robots-read-news-about-united-airlines

Texas student commits suicide after Title IX witch trial.

https://shar.es/1QDsUk

At $75 a pop, that's a few rejections.

Already, Harvard alone makes nearly $3 million in gross profits off of rejected applications each year, according to a new study conducted by UCEazy, a company that assists first generation immigrants with the college application and admission process.

http://college.usatoday.com/2017/04/10/you-wont-believe-how-much-money-colleges-make-on-rejected-applications/

Well, hell.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2017/04/11/j-geils-1980s-j-geils-band-found-dead-his-groton-mass-home/100350664/

Speaking of going (or not going) to college, Darth...

"Bringing back vocational education in high schools would benefit families"

http://www.news-sentinel.com/living/20170412/parenting_bringing_back_vocational_education_in_high_schools_would_benefit_families

Excerpts:

"...The high school dropout rate has declined in recent years to around 7 percent, but the number is misleading because, let’s face it, a good number of students drop out but still occupy desks. Voc-tech would promote student motivation, increase literacy, and significantly reduce dropout rates. Reducing dropout rates would reduce crime, drug use, and various other social ills.

"Then there’s the matter of the jobs that are waiting for the kids in question. Employment opportunities in skilled trades for high school graduates who aren’t college material are the best possible antidote to poverty. Employment further reduces crime, drug use, etc. and also fosters the formation of families, thus promoting responsible child-rearing. In short, the societal benefits of voc-tech are numerous and far-reaching..."

(snip)

I have to say, I don't understand what he said about Trump, though. More on that in a second...

From the "things you've probably never had to think about" department:

What nationality are babies who are born on international flights?

The answer, of course, is "it depends." It's not a common occurrence, but it does happen from time to time.

I searched on Trump and vocational in Google News and this was the only relevant thing I found:

"What vocational education students need today — but aren’t likely to get under Trump"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/04/01/what-vocational-education-students-need-today-but-arent-likely-to-get-under-trump/?utm_term=.13a5ddaafc93

Excerpt:

"...Under President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, education will likely be defined in functional and economistic terms — as preparation for the world of work. Vocational education will be reduced to narrow job training, a limited kind of education that has, sadly, characterized VocEd at times in its past, but that a lot of people have been working against over the last few decades.

"Some in the Career and Technical Education community are hopeful that the Trump administration — with its rhetoric about job creation — will be supportive of vocational education, and that may be so. But it’s a good bet that the CTE the administration champions will be of the most unimaginative variety, not at all the sort of education we need in a world where work is changing and our civic life is so fractious..."

You hate diversity and you're all lazy bastids!

Says college professor.

Sad to report that this gifted satirist has been towed beyond the environment.

Everything old is new again.

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/04/11/from-responsibility-to-protect-to-slave-markets/

Australia, July 2016

Australian artist believes Instagram shut down his account for his not-so-friendly-to-Hillary politically-minded artwork. In Australia.

Sort of a Banksy-at-the-strip-club motif.

We're all post-apocalyptic SJW outlaws now, so lean in and keep fighting!

SF Gate continues its downward spiral into self-referential naval-gazing ineffectiveness.

Something that you will never, ever see in cartoons anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTOJCCuP9T4

Question: "Hey Al, I just saw [your sequel] 'Inconvenient'."
Gore: "Oh great, thank you!"
Question: "My friends make fun of me about the 10-year tipping point, what do I tell them?"
Gore: "Well, we gotta keep working." Gore then gives a momentary stare and then ignores the question and enters his "Executive Car Service" Chevy Suburban and departs on the snowy street.

But it’s a good bet that the CTE the administration champions will be of the most unimaginative variety, not at all the sort of education we need in a world where work is changing and our civic life is so fractious..."

I hate the Washington Post for presuming that it and I would agree on what is admirably "imaginative."

I hate the Washington Post for presuming that we'd all agree that our civic life is too —rather than insufficiently— "fractious."

I hate the Washington Post for being owned by the ruthless destructor of American retail, a computerized savage who can own the media outlet as a hobby.