NY Post: What is FAFO parenting? This latest trend encourages ‘natural consequences’
WSJ: Goodbye Gentle Parenting, Hello ‘F—Around and Find Out’
Gen Z has a clever approach that might work.
These two articles explain FAFO parenting. It used to just be called parenting.
CIA shifts assessment on Covid origins, saying lab leak likely caused outbreak. Good work CIA, that would have been good to know four years ago. Back then, the Biden crime family was taking money from China, the CIA was working against President Trump and corporate media was busy slandering anyone who mentioned the Wuhan Lab as racist or a conspiracy theorist.
At this point, it would be easier to list the Covid statements that were true and backed by scientific evidence.
NYT: Will the Force be with The Acolyte
NYT: Will the Force be with The Acolyte
In two days, a Star Wars spin-off TV show, The Acolyte, will premier on Disney+. The eight episode season will cost $180 million. It’s hard to believe anyone thinks this show will be successful.
This is how Leslye Headland, the show creator, pitched her idea for the show to Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucas Films.
Headland described her concept in the meeting as “‘Frozen’ meets ‘Kill Bill.’” Kennedy bought it on the spot.
That’s why the Star Wars IP is trashed. Kennedy couldn’t resist a sister drama crossed with a woman’s revenge fantasy.
Stenberg, the show’s star, said “Leslye really is driven by emotion and heart and relationships. So even though our show is within the ‘Star Wars’ universe and set in outer space, in a galaxy far, far away, it’s really a family drama.”
Star Wars fans don’t want that, and everyone else knows that Star Wars is a deteriorating IP, so aren’t going to get on board now.
There was a way that the Star Wars universe could have thrived if the people in charge were competent and didn’t despise the original fan base. Instead, they tried a bait-and-switch.
Make the three pre-quels and sequels for the original fans. Tell those masculine stories by staying true to the original trilogy. Knock out a few TV shows in the same manner, like Mandalorian .
With a well-developed universe, be honest about a TV series that is going to be less action-oriented. Say you are making a family drama, love story or children’s adventure in that universe. The original movie, Star Wars: A New Hope was described as a Western in space. There are plenty of family-oriented Westerns like The Big Valley or Bonanza. Make sure that original fans know that you don’t hate them and aren’t going to destroy legacy characters. Emphasize quality, not diversity.
NYT: Damage from Covid closures.
NYT: Damage from Covid closures.
What was done to children in public schools during the Covid lock-down was inexcusable. There will never be a full accounting, but this article in the NYT gets much of it right.
Politico: CDC wants to be trusted.
Mandy Cohen wants to win back America’s trust.
Perhaps this article is incomplete or misrepresents Mandy Cohen. I hope so, because we need a CDC with integrity.
During the Covid year, the first quarter was going to be remote. and that was about all we knew. Teaching remotely, I couldn’t give students the a quality show, so I thought that I’d produce lecture videos that are good in a different way. The intent was to renovate the curriculum while producing videos that would be a resource for my remaining three or four years.
I’ve recently been conversing with a couple of students that I had during the Covid year. Both are in engineering at The Ohio State University. I had both when they were juniors in Physics, and again, as seniors in AP Physics 2. Since I knew them prior to the Covid year, I didn’t need to introduce myself. For students with whom I was not acquainted, it seemed important to produce a video that gave them some sense of Physics and how I approached the course.
NPR: History and Civics scores are down, and nobody should be surprised. The response to the Covid pandemic by the government and education officials was deplorable. I heard this story on NPR this morning, and it also illustrates how trivial their news reporting has become. Everyone wants to know how much damage was done to students by long periods of remote learning.
I can go on about all the bad that came from the Covid lock down, but one good result is that people who weren’t previously technically savvy, stepped up their game to learn new skills and start establishing an online presence.
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