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Alternatively, maybe teach your children their necessary life lessons in situations that are not subject to absolute time deadlines involving groups of already stressed-out people. They can learn to walk in a park, not during a relay race.
There was a time when the members of Congress would censure a member for unseemly behavior like this. No more; the norms have dropped below ground level.
The implied assumption that correct grammar is pointless is held by people for whom self-presentation itself is pointless. If one cannot be bothered to speak according to norms, one would scarcely bother to dress accordingly to norms. Slobs are slobs.
Octavia Butler lived in, wrote in, and was buried in Altadena, CA, 80% of which was just destroyed in the Eaton Canyon fire last week. I don’t know whether her home survived. Irony lives.
I hope Mitch McConnell receives the same degree of respect for his injuries that he showed to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she died. Don’t presume to lecture people on the respect he “deserves.”