I’m dismayed at the need for some of my W3W posts, but it seems like this one should be mentioned. If you follow the news you will have heard that Linda McMahon, the Secretary of Education for the United States, was at an education summit meeting in San Diego last weekend. In particular, the events took place at the San Diego Convention Center. That’s where she repeatedly referred to artificial intelligence (AI) as A1, like the steak sauce. So I took a look at some of the W3W combos there.

The very first one that pops up when you enter San Diego Convention Center into W3W is brain.factories.vanish. It seems our brain factories, i.e. schools, are vanishing under McMahon whose mandate from President Trump is to eliminate the Department of Education (DOE) altogether.

I’m sure she would excuse the A1 error as a slip,terms.forgot, also there at the center. But she made this mistake multiple times. She just has no idea what she’s talking about. This is insulting to good teachers who put all their effort into giving the kids a good education, and the center does say they teach alone with zest. But McMahon’s ignorance is a school.actor.slap in the face.

Perhaps the elimination of the DOE is a good idea if people like her are in charge of it.

James by Percival Everett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I didn’t give this a fair chance at first for several reasons: don’t mess with a classic; an accusation against all white people, etc. But I set those biases aside because my book club chose it and I had to read it. I soon realized it had little to do with Huckleberry Finn and was just an imagined story of a black slave escaping pre-Civil War Missouri on a raft with a white boy (at first) but then departing from Twain’s narrative. It’s implausible, but probably not much more so than Twain’s story. It’s an easy enough read, so I just flowed with the story and enjoyed it.

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