If I weren’t so overworked (aka lazy), I’d do a Web search to ascertain just when the epidemic of emphasizing “self-esteem” swept through the nation’s schools, then compare those years to the ages of various yahoos in the national spotlight … Sarah Palin; the cretin canned from the Virginia Republicans committee job because he twittered a secret plan to steal control of the state legislature; the delusional Glen Beck; stock creep Jim Cramer; Bobby Jindal of Louisiana; and plenty of others.
Odds are they were in school when teachers were forced to give praise to every student, earned or not.
Lamebrains in the news lately seem to have more self-esteem than smarts (book or street). They had to learn it somewhere … egos that size don’t grow without fertilizer.
Except, perhaps, for Lush Rimbaugh, Bill O’Really and Newt Gringrinch.
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Note to software writers: Please add an “oops” button or a “stop” button.
My ISP’s computer doesn’t much like e-mail in the middle of the night … the app grinds away, e-mail going nowhere. But there’s no way to tell the mail app to give it up.
Likewise with the digital archive I use at work … misspell a word in a search and the search goes on and on and on. I do not enjoy sitting there watching little whatsits spin and spin and spin.
Please, gimme a "whoa horsey" command.
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