Finally, some real estate news!

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Things have been pretty slow these days, and it’s been hard to find interesting transactions to write about, but today John McAtee’s listing at 433 Riversville Road was reported as pending. It was asking $3.750 million and found a buyer in just 28 days, which is happy news, doubtless, for both John and his client.

433 is a 1900 house on 13 acres and looks beautiful, but having once owned and restored an 1840 farmhouse in Maine, I personally feel that I’m over the antique house phase of my life, just as I am wooden sailboats. But not everyone is, and I think it’s great that there’s still a market for neat old houses, as this one’s quick sale attests.

I always caution my clients against making guest cottages too comfortable: guests, unwanted relatives and adult children may be tempted to linger beyond Ben Franklin’s three-day deadline. Still, …nice.

I always caution my clients against making guest cottages too comfortable: guests, unwanted relatives and adult children may be tempted to linger beyond Ben Franklin’s three-day deadline. Still, …nice.

Not only the new Paper of Record, but the supreme prognosticator

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Surely an old dead Greek mathematician still passes current muster — I mean, we all KNOW about those Greeks and their boy pupils

Surely an old dead Greek mathematician still passes current muster — I mean, we all KNOW about those Greeks and their boy pupils

Last Thursday, I reported on Seattle’s decision to eliminate white male rules about truth in city classrooms; turns out, the Babylon Bee was there a full three years before: Feelings now acceptable as correct answers on math tests

WASHINGTON, D.C.—An update issued Tuesday to the 2017–2018 Common Core educational standards now allows students to answer mathematics problems by responding with whatever their feelings are telling them at the time.

One example problem given to illustrate the updated standards asked students to figure out when a 6:00 a.m. train leaving Boston at thirty miles per hour and a 7:00 a.m. Milwaukee train headed the opposite direction at forty miles per hour will intersect. A list of possible solutions to the sample problem published in the Common Core standards obtained by reporters indicated that “Ugh,” “I’m offended,” “Triggered,” “Trains scare me,” “Boston scares me,” “Milwaukee scares me,” and “Kill yourself,” would all be scored as correct.

“Any emotion, feeling, statement, or catchphrase is an acceptable answer to most of the problems in the new mathematics standards,” a Common Core representative told reporters. “As long as students are being sincere, genuine, authentic, and true to themselves at the time they are answering the question, that’s all we can ask as educators.”

“Who are we to tell anyone that their own mathematical truth is wrong?” the rep added.

According to the rep, the Common Core standards will be updated next year to include feelings as acceptable responses to any and all questions pertaining to biology, chemistry, grammar, and history, while sources claim that English literature teachers have already been accepting emotions as responses for years.

A Hat for all Reasons

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Returned home and found that my Russian MAGA hat had arrived via Amazon and it’s a beauty. And I can wear it anywhere without fear of being milkshaked, because TDS victims wouldn’t recognize irony if it hit them on the head. In fact, most of the positive Amazon reviews of this garment have been posted by clueless liberals.

It will pair nicely with my “I’d Rather be Waterboarding” license plate frame.

The Paper of Record scoops its competitors, again

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Democrats worry that if impeachment fails, they’ll have to nominate an electable candidate

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democrats are beginning to grow worried that if their impeachment effort fails, they'll have to resort to plan B: nominating an electable candidate and winning an election.

"The real danger here," said Nancy Pelosi in a meeting of top Democrats, "is that the normal way of getting rid of a president---impeachment---fails. Then, we'd have to try to find someone who isn't a smug, smarmy doofus and get the public to like them."

"What about Andrew Yang? He's pretty nice," said one aide, who was then asked to leave the room for such reckless hate. 

"I could run for president. I'm pretty electable," said Chuck Schumer.

"Oh, cut the crap. You're insufferable," said Pelosi, rolling her eyes. "Ocasio, any ideas?"

"What if we just, like, seized the means of production and executed all the leaders?" Ocasio-Cortez asked, looking up from a comic book about herself she was reading. "That would be so fetch."

And let the death spiral begin

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96 Conyers Farm, 13,660 square feet, 15 acres, is on the market today at $12.5 million. Owner paid $13.750 for it when it was new in 2005 and dumped in quite a bit more. Looking up what he sold his razor company for a few years ago and his share of the proceeds, there’s no need to lose sleep over his ability to take a hit here. My best guess is that he’ll end up shaving that price to the mid-eights, or lower, before finding a buyer, but we’ll see.

In Seattle, there will now be three kinds of students: those who can add, and those who can't

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Seattle mandates “woke” math.

In the future, historians will look back upon the suicide of our civilization and will see this poison for what it is. In Seattle, the city’s public schools have decided that everything, even mathematics, has to be seen through the lens of oppression and racism. Below are actual screenshots from the guidelines for math education there:

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This rot has already infected higher education science courses, and now, just as fecal material flows downhill, it’s invading basic education. Here’s Purdue’s Engineering Dean, one Donna Riley, arguing against tough courses and explaining why the school is eliminating “rigor” in testing and learning:

“One of rigor’s purposes is, to put it bluntly, a thinly veiled assertion of white male (hetero)sexuality,” she explains. According to Riley, rigor “has a historical lineage of being about hardness, stiffness, and erectness; its sexual connotations—and links to masculinity in particular—are undeniable.”

“My visceral reaction in many conversations where I have seen rigor asserted has been to tell parties involved (regardless of gender) to whip them out and measure them already,” Riley added.

“Rigor may be a defining tool, revealing how structural forces of power and privilege operate to exclude men of color and women, students with disabilities, LGBTQ+ people, first-generation and low-income students, and non-traditionally aged students” she expands.

Riley also contends that scientific knowledge itself has a racial bias. “Scientific knowledge itself is gendered, raced, and colonizing,” she claimed, going on to argue it is “inherent masculinist, white, and global North bias…all under a guise of neutrality.”

“We need these other ways of knowing to critique rigor, and to find a place to start to build a community for inclusive and holistic engineering education,” she concludes.

These people have already ruined traditional humanities study; soon it will be worth your life to drive across bridges or enter a building. One could ask who ill be available to design and build all those marvelous yet-to-be-invented green machines that will save us from global warming, but logic itself is a white male construct, so why bother?