Road Trip Part II + Human Beings + Anti-Discipline

Road Trip, Part II

Here are a a few more factoids about our recent road trip, which I print simply for my own amusement.

• We experienced two temperature extremes on our recent trip. It got down to 35 degrees in Glacier NP. It was 94 degrees when we drove through the Badlands.
• Re:  national park, we set a PB by visiting four parks:  Teddy Roosevelt, Glacier, Yellowstone, Badlands. Our previous best was 2 parks, which we did twice. Back in the 80s we visited Redwoods NP & Black Canyon of the Gunnison. [NOTE:  Technically speaking, Black Canyon had not achieved NP status yet. Four years ago we visited Yellowstone & Glacier NPs.
• Our guide on the Sun Bus Tour in Glacier was a member of the Blackfeet tribe. He was very informative, also very colorful. When talking about grizzlies, he referred to bike riders in Glacier as "meals on wheels." Funny.
• The operative word in & around Glacier was "huckleberries." We enjoyed a huckleberry sundae, huckleberry pie ala mode with huckleberry ice cream, & huckleberry jam, which we just finished yesterday.

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Human Beings

Abortion intentionally ends the lives of human beings. We were reminded of this in a particularly grisly way over the weekend, when 2,246 remains of aborted fetuses were discovered inside the home of former abortionist Ulrich George Klopfer. His family discovered the medically preserved remains on Klopfer’s property in Illinois after he passed away earlier this month. --Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review Online

Anti-Discipline

Anti-discipline advocates claim that they are fighting the “school-to-prison pipeline.” In reality, their policies increase the flow. The idea that not holding kids accountable for their actions will make them more law-abiding as adults is idiotic. If we tell juveniles there are no consequences for misbehavior, we set them up for failure in the workplace. And we put them at risk for a hard reckoning when they find that behavior that didn’t even get them suspended in school gets them a felony charge when they hit age 18. --Andrew Pollack, NRO