Instead of concentrating on their reading, writing, and arithmetic, it seems as though a large number of “students” in one of our publicly-funded high schools have “other priorities:
“A fight between rival groups of black and Latino students at Locke High School quickly escalated into a campus-wide melee Friday, with as many as 600 students brawling until police restored calm with billy clubs.

Los Angeles’ Combat High School from Degree Space

Saw this article in the Washington Post. It troubles me: For the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is falling for a significant number of American women.

In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation’s women, life expectancy is now shorter than it was in the early 1980s, according to a study published today.

The downward trend is

Life Expectancy Down For Some American Women from Degree Space

Sad But True.

Heh. It’s just a matter of time before those all-knowing Washington lawmakers and their associates accomplices over at The Kingdom Of Spellings will attempt to legislate an attitude-change for America’s youth.

When They’re Too Cool For School from Degree Space

In Communist China, if the powers-that-be don’t like what you write, you’ll do hard time:A Chinese court Thursday sentenced an outspoken human rights advocate to three and a half years in prison after ruling that his critical essays and comments about Communist Party rule amounted to inciting subversion, his lawyer said.

The conviction of Hu Jia, 34, quickly brought outside criticism of China at

Censorchimps: The Mandarin Subspecies from Degree Space

Did you hear the one about the Texas woman who couldn’t board the airliner without removing hernipple rings first?

As many of those federal TSA-types seem to be into pain, maybe Mandi Hamlin should have offered to use those pliers on those TSA agents as well as on herself.

Full Disc: I must confess that I find the mental picture of her using them on attorney Gloria Allred (pictured, left) to be

Have Nipple Ring, Won’t Travel from Degree Space

As a people, we are all paying the price for our federal government’s refusal to secure our wide-open and out of control southern border. And some Americans are paying the ultimate price:
GRAYS WELLS — A Yuma Sector Border Patrol agent was killed Saturday morning when he was allegedly struck by a suspected drug smuggler’s vehicle.

The incident occurred at 9 a.m. Saturday about 40 miles east of

Our Out Of Control Borders: Who’s Accountable? from Degree Space

While I was reading this Iowa story about the 29-year-old grandmother, I wanted to tear my hair out in clumps:Quad-City area teenagers are still having babies. But the good news is that fewer teens are doing so across the region — and in Iowa, Illinois and the United States as a whole — than 10 years ago.

Some say the teens who are having babies seem to be getting younger and younger, including

Babies Having Babies: Now A Generational Problem from Degree Space

Yes indeedy in tony Palo Alto, California: On Sunday mornings, most parents who don’t believe in the Christian God, or any god at all, are probably making brunch or cheering at their kids’ soccer game, or running errands or, with luck, sleeping in. Without religion, there’s no need for church, right?

Maybe. But some nonbelievers are beginning to think they might need something for their children

Sunday School For Atheists? from Degree Space

San Francisco has long touted itself as the sort of Bohemian place where non-conformity isn’t just tolerated by the populace, but downright expected.

At least as long as the non-conformity meets certain Politikally Korrect expectations. When traditional values are involved, many of those self-styled bohemians who inhabit the City by the Bay can be downright intolerant.

For example. These are

Today’s Non Sequitur: San Fran’s Bohemian Intolerance from Degree Space

Once again, just about all of us Americans have had to go through the twice-yearly hassle of changing the clocks. Only this time around, there is some talk that this minor annoyance may be hazardous to the health of pedestrians. And that includes many kids who walk to and from school: This weekend is the time to turn back those clocks, and according to two scientists, time to be extra careful

Semiannual Stupidity from Degree Space