Reflections From a Murky Pond

No. You can’t even make this shit up. I really don’t know if this is just what we allow to pass for colleges in California or a case of the Left Coast wanting to signal that they’re even #Woker than the Northeast. Either way though, USC’s Suzanne-Dworak-Peck School of Social Work wants everyone to know that use of the word “field” will no longer be tolerated.

As we enter 2023, we would like to share a change we are making at the Suzanne-Dworak-Peck School of Social Work to ensure our use of inclusive language and practice. Specifically, we have decided to remove the term ‘field’ from our curriculum and practice and replace it with ‘practicum.’ This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that could be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant in favor of inclusive language. Language can be powerful, and phrases such as ‘going into the field’ or ‘field work’ may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign.

— Practicum Education Department,
USC Suzanne-Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

So, no more “field work,” and no more going into or being out “in the field.” Not sure how they’re planning to handle their “field of study.” 😆 But then, “anti-racism” is, more often than not, anti-sensical.

USC’s Suzanne-Dworak-Peck School of Social Work’s language policing does raise a singular, glaring question in my mind though. If they’re banning “field” from use due to it possibly having certain connotations for “descendants of slavery and immigrant workers,” are they also going to ban the use of “house?” After all, the House Negro is the antithesis of the Field Negro and holds extremely bad connotations to the majority of Blacks who always seem to need the charity of social work.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, January 15th, 2023 at 9:00 am and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Ah, a California elementary school teacher’s fridge and to-do list. In truth, while this is still funny, I’d find it a lot funnier if hadn’t in recent years become more and more plausible as fact rather than merely sarcasm.

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This entry was posted on Friday, December 30th, 2022 at 10:00 am and is filed under Humor, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

There’s actually more than a decent chance that, thanks to the climatard idiocy of California’s Leftist government, that this will be the EV showrooms of California’s near-term future. Even more so than the rest of the country, California’s electrical power grid is by and large unable to support it’s current use, much less that plus millions of electric vehicles.

During a late-summer heat wave California Gov. Gavin Newsom pleaded with residents to conserve energy use through easing back on air conditioning and refraining from charging electric vehicles during peak use times. And that was with the current fleet of EVs, which is only 10-20% of their stated goals.

Yeah, California looks to set for a dark future. 😆

During a late-summer heat wave California Gov. Gavin Newsom pleaded with residents to conserve energy use through easing back on air conditioning and refraining from charging electric vehicles during peak use times.

Sadly, there’s an old sociopolitical aphorism, “As California Goes, so Goes the Nation.” In this case, if it holds true, that will be into a new Dark Age. 🙄

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 at 11:00 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

As of May 31, 2022 due to a California Appellate Court overruling a lower court’s legal decision, Four species of bumblebees – the Crotch’s bumblebee, the Franklin’s bumblebee, the Suckley’s cuckoo bumblebee and the Western bumblebee – are now eligible to officially become endangered species under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). This means that the California Fish and Game Commission will now have a certain amount jurisdiction over those 4 species of bumblebee and their protection. Assuming, of course, that this decision isn’t overturned by a higher court.

The Poor Beleaguered Fish In Question

So yeah, for now and possibly for some time, bees are legally fish. And yeah, a lot of people are seriously lampooning the CA Appellate Court’s obvious and rank stupidity is declaring them so. But… all the complaints, insults, and jokes are misplaced. The bumbling idiocy happened way back in 1970.

The California Endangered Species Act was designed to protect “native species or subspecies of a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, or plant.” But, in 1970 when the law was actually written the definition of “fish” was written as, “a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals.” While it is patently obvious to anyone who can read for comprehension that “invertebrate” was meant to be limited to marine and aquatic ones, e.g., corals, sponges, and sea urchins, that’s not what was written into law.

Although the term fish is colloquially and commonly understood to refer to aquatic species, the term of art employed by the Legislature in the definition of fish in section 45 is not so limited.

— Associate Justice Ronald B. Robie

The important part of the portion of the ruling shown above is Term of Art. And in the legal field those terms have specific, explicit meanings, not implied ones. Purposivism will, far more often than not, fall before Textualism in the Courts.

In this case, the statutory definition of fish states it means a “wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals.” The statute may have an implicit limitation to marine and aquatic creatures, but the legislators didn’t state that explicitly, meaning no such limitation actually exists.

Frankly, if judicial error happened, it was by the lower court that ruled that bees aren’t per the term of art in play fish. So, if anyone should be lampooned, it should be the Legislature, who wrote a piss-poor law using hasty language and without thought of potential use case scenarios.

Nor, I choose to add, is this the first time the fishiness of a species has come into legal debate. One need only turn to the 1818 Maurice v. Judd case in NYC, where the court ruled that, statutorily speaking, whales were fish.

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This entry was posted on Friday, June 10th, 2022 at 5:02 am and is filed under Animals, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

It is a bit of a quandary. Was Pelosi being delusional or disingenuous when she exclaimed, “How could this be?” over the price of a gallon of gasoline in her state of California where in some locales it has reached $6.00 a gallon.

Given that she then immediately ordered that we don’t solve for this economic disaster by increasing our domestic production of petroleum – the ONLY way to fix this immediate problem – I’d say it’s a combination of both. She was disingenuous in her shock and outrage over fuel prices, and she was delusional in believing that anyone other than the financial elite urbanites would agree with her prohibition on extended domestic drilling.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 at 11:16 am and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.