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"An eighth-grade language arts teacher from Maryland has been placed on administrative leave after school officials learned he allegedly authored two books containing questionable content under a pseudonym.
Local network WBOC News reports that the investigation concerns two books published by McLaw under the nom de plume “Dr. K.S. Voltaer,” and one is about a fictional, futuristic school shooting that goes down in history as being the largest ever in the United States.
http://rt.com/usa/182964-teacher-leave-shooting-book/"
This is lunacy. School administrators are terrified there will be another Columbine or Sandy Hook and are overreacting, or are they. What could they do to prevent one. Nothing, nil, zero. No need to ask yourself 'why', say thank you to the traitorous NRA , the propaganda arm of the small arms manufacturing industry, for blocking any form of gun control. They have successfully infected the country with The American Disease™ almost unfettered access to weapons of war that kill with brutal efficiency. Sadly there appears to be no cure.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The preceding paragraph was not up to our standards. The comments to this story are spot on. You expect better than this and we let you down. There are so many comments referring to this paragraph, we cannot just delete it, hence the strike-through. More to follow.]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by romlok on Saturday August 30 2014, @11:11AM
Yes, less editorialising and political ranting in the summaries, please.
The content and tone of the summaries of the site are the face of Soylent News, and if this kind of ranting is what SN wants as their public persona, then I don't think I would want to patronise this site any more.
If the submitter really wants to make a case for their personal political stance, coherent or not, then let them do it in the article comments like the rest of us.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 30 2014, @10:05PM
I had a hearty laugh reading that summary, and wondered if it was April Fool's day. Was the submitter serious? How could they have submitted that with a straight face? They must have been trolling. Thank you Soylent News for making my day, heeheehawhaw!
And the comments certainly didn't disappoint either, like the one on downward that says something like "Hey Hippie, shut the fuck up with your pacification bullshit!" And I agree, those filthy hippies should get a haircut and a goddamn job instead of wallowing in pot and incense smoke and being stinky degenerates.
That being said, I think that submitters should be allowed to editorialize as long as they make it clear that certain blocks of text are just, like, their opinion, man.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mcgrew on Sunday August 31 2014, @02:19PM
They must have been trolling.
You should know if anybody does.
those filthy hippies should get a haircut...
Why?
...and a goddamn job instead of wallowing in pot and incense smoke and being stinky degenerates.
I'll have you know, Mister Troll, that I've been smoking pot for forty years, had long hair most of that time, and worked from when I was sixteen until I retired this year. How your offtopic insults got modded insightful rather than flamebait I can't fathom. Maybe someone misread it as "insultful".
I think that submitters should be allowed to editorialize
Not in the summary. The summary is for information, editorializing belongs strictly in the comments.
Oh, kudos to s/n staff for actions after this blunder. I doubt they'll repeat the mistake.
No one born who could always afford anything he wanted can have a clue what "affordability" means.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday August 31 2014, @05:03PM
Maybe they are in financial trouble? [wikipedia.org]
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