American Consequences - April 2019

Gates Foundation. We’ll have a tetherball league – no, three – Adults, Juniors, and ’Tether Tots.’ This could be a great Title IX thing. If our daughters are varsity-level tetherball players, they’ll get into Yale." The Person With Ideas,

You You actually do all the work and call 40 people and ask them each to donate $20, and half of them do, and you raise the $400 needed only to find out you need $400,000. Because the House of Representatives’ Economic and Educational Opportunities Committee’s Select Committee on Opportunities in Physical Education’s Subcommittee on Americans With Disabilities Act Compliance requires all tetherballs to be wheelchair-accessible no matter how high the tetherballs fly in the air. Given the complete dominance of government by Committee Brain, the wonder is that anything gets done, and the horror is that it does. What government accomplishes is what you’d expect from a committee. "A camel is a horse designed by a committee" is a saying that couldn’t be more wrong. A camel is a seeing-eye dog designed by a committee and available as a federal entitlement to people who can see perfectly well but who can’t walk.

None of Which Have Anything to Do With Tetherball

"Is the tether biodegradable? Is the pole made from recycled materials? Many playground balls are manufactured in third-world countries using exploitative child labor. Let’s be sure to utilize organic fertilizer and indigenous plant species when seeding the tetherball play area." The Bossy Person Who says the same thing as everyone else on the committee, but louder. The Person Who Won’t Shut Up Who says the same thing as everyone else on the committee, but more often. The Person Who Won’t Show Up Unless his or her vote is crucial, in which case he or she shows up and votes the wrong way.

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