My former student, friend, and co-author was moved to a new prison during COVID. We (myself, Mitali, and his Abuela) have visited a couple of times via the video visit functionality they set up, but we've also been trying to visit in person, ever since in-person visits were allowed again. After four of them being canceled (sometimes we were told why, sometimes not), we finally got a visit. I was super nervous about this visit. (I felt better when Mitali mentioned that she was also, because she is an inherently positive and optimistic person!) I am not proud of this, but there was a large part of me that was hoping that the visit would be canceled, just like the previous four were. I felt a little better when someone I know messaged me privately to tell me that they had had very good experiences visiting a family member in that prison. But I still didn't sleep well at all that night, worrying about the guards, the many things that could go wrong, and the projected 111-degree hea...
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Re: George Bush and poor grammar; just because he never got the speech therapy he obviously neede, do not underestimate him!
I mean he graduated from Yale, so he must be pretty intelligent...
even if he did slide through with dad greasing the wheels.
I think we do ourselves a disservice if we forget how smart the guy is. Smart, tricky, but clever...That's even more scary.
And his antics w. drugs at school?
Addicts (even recovering) are obsessed with control to the extreme...