re: #23 funky chicken

Most of them are just stupid. Some of them are old, confused and scared like my father. It’s really sad, because guys like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin would detest the fools. John Adams might agree with their religiosity, but would be disgusted by the neo-confederates, etc. They really don’t get the Founders at all.

Which is why it could be kinda fun to teach social studies in NE … stay totally within the requirements but teach the kids about the importance of enlightenment and scientific discovery in the 1700s and how it lead to the revolution.

That could work well —- e.g.,compare and contrast French Revolution and American Revolution —- which was really a revolution and why?

For extra credit, the students can look into the birth of conservatism as a political philosophy as a reaction to the French Revolution (e.g., Edmund Burke).