Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Give John a Sleeping Pill, Nurse

I am working on a list of questions for the candidates to ask the three incumbents: Falliero, Olson, and Griffin.

People run for the school board without knowing diddly about the schools. They should have been attending board meetings for a year or so. That's how you get educated.

Be patient. This work takes time.

You won't believe this, but it appears that most of the incumbents don't have emails. So I will have to use snail-mail to send them the data they need to know. I feel as though I am giving students a cheat sheet when they have not bothered to crack a book.

Yet these folks want to run for the school board despite their ignorance of how the schools run and how vital computers are to education. But then again I think April Griffin is the only one who uses a computer on the current board illiterati. I told her to mount a blog when we were still speaking. She did, and it's filled with grammar-punctuation errors. That's the kind of ignorance we need on the board. lee

I heard from John D a while back, posted his dig at me on another blog by mistake and am giving him front page to propitiate the rascal.

I wish I had had John as a patient when I was nursing. I would have given him his buttock injections with a big old blood need. lee


Where have you been, John_D? I thought you had died in a drug raid in Quatamala while trying to correct the grammar of a headhunter drug lord as he locked and loaded; but here you are nagging again. Get out of the grammar racket. You don't know what you are talking about. Try pool. That might work for you. lee



Review this uptown grammar correction above your pay grade of the guy who is the god of academics at Yale. He has so many academic encomiums that he clanks when he walks. I have better material to work my grammar routine on than you. lee



Professor Donald Kagan
c/o Publicity Department
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020


4/18/2010


Dr. Kagan:


I have just bought your history of the Peloponnesian wars on Amazon; I also got your Thucydides book.


I have read the original Thycydides and want a more accessible style. And I want to know the end of the wars. I wonder why he broke off.


I have just finished your Pedicles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy. I wanted to know more about Pericles' relationship with the concubine Apasia, with whom he lived until he died in the plague.


You gave a good accounting of their relationship. Pericles gets kudos for his fidelity to her. I greatly admire Apasia.


Concubines were the only women in Greece who had any political freedom. I would have had to be a concubine then to be out and about. I would get Alcibiades to sponsor me. I think he would. He was always for any harebreained idea that came his way. His pushing for an adventure on Sicily had hideous results. But Alcibiades is my favorite classical rascal.


Except for concubines, women were virtual slaves of the sexism that overspread the classical world with Sparta's being somewhat of an exception.


Aristotle and Plato were wretched misogynists, the jerks. Aristotle was livid about Spartan women's relative freedom and called them "thigh flashers" because of the freedom of their attire. I hope Alexander's tutor suffered from ejaculatio praecox and was ridiculed in the gymnasium for it.



I read an online biography on you that said you had gone conservative because you did not approve of some Washington policy. Sexism is a conservative affliction, so your conversion may mean you think oppressing women is just swell and want their meager gains in the last two thousand years repealed. History will judge you ill sir.



The first two sentences in the introduction to your Pericles book are these:

"To tell the story of an individual's life and to treat him as a force that not only influenced his own times but centuries to come is not fashionable. Still less is it common to attribute to attribute to him heroic qualities , as this book does."

There is a limit that even highly honored historians enjoy in making grammar-punctuation errors. You could get away with possessive-before-the-gerund mess-ups but not with plebian subject-verb and superfluous-comma errors.


Your introduction's

cited sentence's subject is two infinitive phrases: your verb should be "are." The comma in the second sentence ranks superfluous because it cuts off a restrictive adverbial clause. Commas have become sparse in the last four hundred years. One uses them for structural, not rhetorical, reasons.


I am afraid you are obliged to comply.


Bethink yourself, sir. What would Pedicles say?


I disagree with you about Pericles' equating to the tragic hero. You invoke some flossy classics scholar to buttress your arguement.


Oedipus had more than stubborn self-regard in his psyche. He had the transcendent sense of himself as elevated beyond human bourne that marks the tragic hero. He would never have indulged in the often grubby polis politics that Pericles embraced to stay in power. The bottom line is that Oedipus was an idea; Pericles a mere man.


There has never lived a real tragic hero as Aristotle described one: he is the ideal that inhabits regions of our imagination that transcends human existence.


I shall be firm in defense of literacy. I say you mend those errors before the next printing of the Pericles book, or I shall have to complain to one or more of your award sources if you don't for the lifting of your awards.


I am not a fellow. I am from the South. Southern families name one of their children "Lee" so revered is he, even naming a third daughter as was I "Lee."


When my baby brother was born two years later, my father fell back on "Jackson" for Stonewall.


Respectfully,

Lee Drury De Cesare

15316 Gulf Boulevard 802

Madeira Beach, FL 33709

tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

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Visiting David in Florence

14 comments:

John__D said...

You can't stand being wrong, can you? You ruthlessly run a red pen over everyone else and squeal when I point out one error from your diatribe. You're pathetic, Lee.

Anonymous said...

Elia sent out an email to all employees saying how more budget cuts are on the way. Maybe she should cut out the jobs at ROSSAC for friends and giving outside contracts to friends also. She should stop letting school board members get their friends contracts the way Candy Olson did for some woman who was supposed to help the employees get in shape.

Anonymous said...

Has anyone noticed that all the school board members look like drag queens?

Vox Populi said...

Lee, LOOK !! The buddy system : putting a 30 year old assistant principal at middleton of all wild west locations which maryEllen Elia has created. I know personally that drug dealers' wives are running the GED programs from this school. MORE THAN ONE SCHOOL. BUT, it gets better. In this one article they're also addressing the teacher evaluation system where she buddied up, got a perfect score and then sent explicit photos of her forlorn, not very attractive self to a student. Read her bio !!! Could an assistant principal BE more VAPID?

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article1096312.ece

Anonymous said...

pathetic still comes before putrid in the dick-tion-ary, I believe.

Anonymous said...

Lauren Tilo.

One of maryEllen's PRIZE COWS:

sending nudies to her students.

OMG.
Here's the WHOLE link:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/middleton-high-school-assistant-principal-accused-of-sending-nude-photo-to/1096312

OR HERE

Can't you just see little maryEllen Elia in stiff pigtails taking the subway off to the FOUR H farm in her sleezy suburb of NY to get an early start on selecting prize cows? Oh, here's something interesting: Just found out yesterday that ELIA is PUERTO RICAN .... which explains A LOT as to her gang connections. Bada BINGATABING. Many puerto rican gangsters moved here AT THE SAME TIME. Why would they put a nutjob like elia in charge? There are much smarter puerto ricans. The thing is that maryEllen does not mind using children as mules and teachers as role models despite the fact that they prefer to be NUDE models. bada bing.

Anonymous said...

MaryEllen Elia has a farmer's daughter name, and she also talks like a low class Jersey person. How can she be Puerto Rican? She is so white trash!!! She even wanted a tin roof on her house!

Anonymous said...

So upsetting that the school board is so corrupt to simply promote sexual predators into administration. Why would they trust Elia's administrative recommendations after all the sexual predators in the news under her watch?

Anonymous said...

Is Hillsborough the school district with the most female sexual predators? There seems to be way too many. They must be scraping the bottom of the barrel for teachers and administrators. Everybody knows everything trickles down from the top. When you have oversexed school board members and school board members whose husbands probably had gay sex in public parks and bathrooms, it is no wonder the teachers start to act like the leaders who are in charge. Hillsborough's school board is probably the most corrupt board in the U.S.A.

Vox Populi said...

Albert. Albert Elia. He is the Puerto Rican. The name ELIA is Puerto Rican. I just found out from another Elia. Who uses it as a first name pronounced with a soft e. She is white trash from dirty jerz. He's PR trash from dirty jerz. Ya seen him??? They're PERFECT for each other. True dat she has a farmer's daughter's name. THAT must be why she is SO GOOD at picking PRIZE PIGS and promoting them to ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL whereby they send gruesome nude photos of themselves to poor children. Luckily the poor child did not gouge himself sightless.Yet. Why can't the nude pigs get together with King High toecrackers?? Oh. That's RIGHT. He likes YOUNG BOYS and SO DOES SHE. That would be competition. BUT they could go hunting together.

Anonymous said...

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All of this activity is HIGHLY ILLEGAL. But here's the biggest news (not really news) it goes straight to the top. Bill McCollum is WELL AWARE of this illegal activity and in fact, practices it HIMSELF.

Anonymous said...

It's almost as if the school board and Elia have trained teachers to molest children! It is so inexplicable that so many cases arise in Hillsborough.

Anonymous said...

Maybe that's what's going on in all those evaluate teacher training days. Imagine they will be able to afford live models with all that gates money and those willing snitch teachers who want to get rid of other teachers. SO THAT more prize cows can become assistant principals. I really REALLY enjoy watching maryEllen Elia get what she deserves. She is a swine who has ruined education and safety for the children of Hillsborough County. If she dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow, HC schools would right themselves. This makes me angry for myself and my family but it makes me even angrier for the children and for the teachers who did not deserve this nasty woman for a boss. A hefe. Hefe in spanish is Boss. Heifer is more like it.

John__D said...

It comes before "perfect" too, Anonymous. What's your point?

Lee, please tell this bozo to use some quotations marks and to start sentences with a capital. He or she is illiterate and deserves a serve. Also, "dick-tionary" is the kind of name-calling that you rail against every time you cite bullying policies.