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Month: March 2017

Let’s talk about inspiration pr0n.

Rebecca Schmitt, Rashema Mason, Griffin Furlong, and Crystal Tarbell are incredible young people — they endured homelessness and incredible emotional hardship to become valedictorian at their high school and earn college scholarships. Their stories make for inspirational, heartwarming reads — unless you pause long enough to ask, “In what world should a girl and her family end up homeless because they can’t afford her mother’s cancer treatment?”

Ugh, “presidential”

Following Donald Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress Tuesday night, the news media — left and right — have been falling all over themselves about how presidential he sounded.

And it’s true that the address was decidedly un-Trumpian. He didn’t talk about his electoral margin. He didn’t bash Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. He didn’t denigrate the media. He even refrained from doing the thing where he repeats the ends of sentences like a kindergarten teacher reading aloud to the class. But from the media response, you would think his accurate script read and bare minimum of restraint was the Gettysburg Address meets the Sermon on the Mount meets MLK having a dream.