Joshua Gibbs is teaching Dante to his students. He says (correctly!) that the Commedia is all about learning to desire the right things. This is really difficult, because it requires change, it requires metanoia. It requires repentance. And it all starts with wanting to be good, which is a more difficult thing to pull off than you might think. Excerpt:
Fox News pundit Charles Krauthammer really doesn’t get it:
Charles Krauthammer comments on Donald Trump’s apathy toward North Carolina’s new LGBT laws on transgender people using restrooms. Krauthammer is puzzled by the need for the law and asked, “do we really have an epidemic of transgenders being evil in bathrooms?”
Krauthammer said the law is a “solution in search of an issue” and said transgenders using public bathrooms has become a problem “precisely because Republicans in North Carolina decided it was a problem.”
A court in Truro, Cornwall has sentenced a fake student to jail for defrauding her parents out of £250,000 for a pretend degree course at an elite UK university. Nicola Boardman spent the money her parents gave for her education on drugs, weddings and holidays while maintaining a pretense of studying for exams. Devon and Cornwall Police The Week reports: Nicola Boardman, aged 34, told her parents, Frank and Marilyn, that she needed the money for research projects, rent and travel while studying towards a PhD in social sciences at Oxford University.
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He was 57 years old, but really, he was ageless. His Purple Rain album was the soundtrack of my senior year in high school. I saw the Alphabet City tour when he came through DC, and remember it as one of the best concerts of my life. Only 57 years old. Prince fans will understand this reference:
According to a federal court, it’s a violation of federal law to require high school students to use the restroom that corresponds to their biological sex: