We’ve lost our sense of decency
The world is now totally impersonal and robotic. There is no human customer service anywhere. Everything is now virtual as humans themselves have become more inept than the robots replacing them and thus expendable.
The etiquette of the 2020s is that it’s OK to dump on common courtesy and welch on a commitment. Everyone knows things always come up and leave about a 10% chance someone will show up when they say they will. It’s universal as the societal merry-go-round we’re on got too fast to hang on any longer.
When someone says they’ll be there, ask them what time they won’t show up.
And all this is accepted as OK. Really?
Matt Thomas
East Ridge
Giuliani, Nunes are embarrassing hacks
Indeed, there is nothing more “cringe-worthy” than listening to Rudy Giuliani or reading some sycophant’s letter repeat untrustworthy information. Giuliani had his law license suspended in New York and Washington, D.C., for making “demonstrably false and misleading statements” in his effort to overturn the presidential election.
Giuliani told the cringe-worthy Newsmax network he couldn’t remember exactly where he left important evidence about Hillary Clinton and the FBI hacking and investigation of Trump but had thousands [of documents] (remember that “demonstrably false” statement).
So Republican Devin Nunes said he had information but now he quit Congress to work for Trump’s social media venture. Nunes was House Intelligence Committee chairman. Why didn’t he stay and investigate the allegations against Clinton and the FBI? It looks like his allegations have no more truth than the “demonstrably false” Giuliani’s.
Pam Sohn, Clay Bennett and David Cook are the epitome of truth and the very heart of “To give the news without fear or favor” which sycophants can’t understand.
I love Sunday’s “What didn’t happen this week” section of the TFP.
David Bean
Chatsworth, Ga.
Painful history lessons are valuable
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” – George Orwell
I wonder what the opinion of critics of “critical race theory” would be if Germany announced that it was suspending all education about the Holocaust because teaching it made German children feel badly?
Gene Stevens
Tunnel Hill, Ga.
Pre-K proven to be beneficial. Pay for it.
Star Parker is at it again on Jan. 30 Free Press editorial page, this time to criticize the inclusion of universal pre-K in the Build Back Better program. I find it interesting that Republican-controlled Georgia funds universal 4-year-old pre-K via the state lottery. I guess they feel it is of value to society. As a pediatrician, I can attest to the need for pre-K, especially in poor children of any race. Remember, the majority of families on food stamps (an indication of poverty) are white.
If you look at readiness for kindergarten, you see numbers that show that 52% of poor children and 25% of middle and upper income children are not ready for kindergarten. There is also documented evidence that any pre-K instruction should be based on standards that stress social and educational readiness.
Why is success in kindergarten so important? The reason is that studies show that children who struggle and do not succeed in kindergarten continue to struggle and are at greater risk of school failure than those who enter kindergarten prepared to succeed.
If there ever was a wise investment of our tax dollars, it is universal pre-K.
Lemuel Arnold
LaFayette, Ga.