Comments on: It was like you have this house on fire, and they’re basically painting the front door https://www.isegoria.net/2022/02/it-was-like-you-have-this-house-on-fire-and-theyre-basically-painting-the-front-door/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:53:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2022/02/it-was-like-you-have-this-house-on-fire-and-theyre-basically-painting-the-front-door/comment-page-1/#comment-3507809 Jim Fri, 25 Feb 2022 05:49:30 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48671#comment-3507809 “It was against this backdrop, with anguished public school parents pulling their hair out over the personal disruption, learning loss, and social dysfunction that comes with extended remote learning, that the SFUSD board made the fateful decision to rename 44 of its schools that still weren’t open, on the ground that those names—including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, John Muir, Paul Revere, and Dianne Feinstein—were too culturally insensitive and/or unrepresentative.”

Uh huh. I’m just glad that they’ve finally jumped the shark. And not in a smart, suave, sophisticated evil way, but in a drooling, cross-eyed, retarded mongoloid evil way.

It’s almost sad. Or it would be, if they weren’t lower than pond scum and deserving of death.

]]> By: Pseudo-Chrysostom https://www.isegoria.net/2022/02/it-was-like-you-have-this-house-on-fire-and-theyre-basically-painting-the-front-door/comment-page-1/#comment-3507457 Pseudo-Chrysostom Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:02:21 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=48671#comment-3507457 Further back in the day, the expression was ‘rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic’. Interesting to observe the process of loss in cultural touchstones over time.

Instead of Ovid, or Chaucer, or Dostoevsky, the bluecheck of our most current of years has Harry Potter as his source of metaphor for framing the experiences of his life.

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