Wide awake at 2:30. Gonna be a long day.
My Portuguese Word of the Day is jornal, which the web page tells me means news.
As is normal, the page then gives me a few sentences in Portuguese that use that word in a sentence, with the English translation underneath. I typically scroll down just far enough to see the Portuguese sentence to see if I can figure out what it says and then scroll a bit further to see if I got it right.
Not one of the four sentences on today's page have the word jornal in them. However, they do all have noticias.
I looked it up on Google Translator and jornal means newspaper. So a jornal is where you get the noticias. Unless it's in TrumpWorld, which is where you get the noticias falsas.
I confess that I don't get the whole "college admissions scam" bit. Oh, I get that they gamed the system, but why is that criminal behavior? Is everything that's cheating a crime?
So they paid a coach, or an admissions counselor, or an SAT exec to falsify some record so their kid would get into Yale. They lied on a college admissions form.
News flash: That's been going on for as long as there have been college admissions forms.
Another rich guy gives $100,000 to build a bigger and better lab for the physics dept. and his kid gets preferred treatment by the admissions department and nobody thinks that's a crime! Happens all the time.
If they had a ringer take their SAT...crime?? Or just bad behavior. OK, cheating. But criminal?
The old saying is, "Not everything that's wrong is illegal and not everything that's illegal is wrong" seems to apply here.
On a related note: People are outraged that the rich can do things the rest of us can't. "That's not fair!"
Hello!
When has that NOT been the case?! And so will it ever be.
Most of the people decrying that "injustice" are richer than someone else who would bring that same accusation against them. Money brings privilege, which is one of the reasons most people want more money. They want the stuff and the power that comes with it.
I want to sit in first class but can only afford coach. That doesn't mean the guy who can afford to sit up there is cheating, or that he shouldn't get better treatment. He's paying for it, for pete's sake!
Hey you, Mr. or Ms. Whiner. Get over it!
If some overpaid actress spent a lot of money to get her daughter into USC when that she couldn't make it on her merits, it's going to bring its own recompense. That slacker coed is going to be a failure no matter what it says on her diploma OR she's going to make it in life regardless of how she got into that school.
We don't need whacko freshmen Congresswomen from NY to drag us into socialism because we're halfway there already. We've decided we should all have the same privileges, the same opportunities, and the same experiences as the wealthy.
Less looking at others and more looking in the mirror. Get it done!
We had our weekly staff meeting today and it included a fairly extensive discussion of the adult ed ministry I've proposed. I have NO idea how to characterize the back-and-forth or what comes next. I am supposed to write it up so people can see it in print and "digest" the idea. After that...???
I've done my bit - pitch the idea the best I can. After that it's in Someone else's hand.
OK, it was before that, too, but now I just wait to see how it plays out.
That first line up there about the time my day started is playing out now and it's only 2:30. I was a good boy and did my gym stop on the way home from the office. I'm sitting in my chair having just had a bowl of oatmeal and my plan is to work on the write-up and then go do tasks outside where it's 49 degrees and sunny. Or I could just as easily sit here and fall asleep.
Decisions, decisions.
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