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The Greater Problem in Publik Skeewls

23 Thursday Sep 2021

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Midway through The Substitute, Dr. Ironsides remarks that the schools are failed “because they’re run by feminists, queers, and communists.” He is, as usual, correct. However, by the end, he also concludes that as bad as the institutions of the devil are, that they are what the locals deserve. In other words, a wicked, stupid generation will tolerate the abuse of their children in wicked, stupid schools, thus creating a future generation of wicked, stupid people. Repeat and decline as needed.

It is literally the truth in the real world; thus speak the degenerate moron parents of a collapsed South Carolina public “school” system:

The Aiken County Public School District received survey responses from over 11,000 parents regarding the mandate of masks in schools and the COVID-19 vaccine.

A total of 65.8% of parents agreed to support a mask mandate with 11,429 responses. A total of 62.5% of parents disagree with mandating students to take the vaccine with 11,400 responses.

“I would’ve predicted about a 50-50 split on both questions, so we got a little bit better on the masks than I thought we might, and fewer people wanted a vaccine mandate than I would have thought,” Aiken County School Board Chairman Dr. John Bradley said Wednesday.

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Bradley said he personally feels that once all the vaccines get proper FDA approval and everything starts to settle down, the vaccine should be mandated along with the other shots children have to take before going to school.

Hopefully, one day, the chairman’s words will be read back to him before his sentence is carried out. For now, this is why homeschooling is the only option. Forget the feminists, queers, and communists. Does anyone really want his child surrounded by the genetic offspring of people so evil and stupid as to support actively torturing their own children in the false name of fighting a common cold to which the children are statistically immune?

Nationwide, north of 80% of all government schools are, by their own contrived numbers and admissions, failed. There is no fixing this. The only thing a sane man can do is walk away and leave the idiots to the disaster they have created and tolerated and deserve.

Winning and Winning

23 Monday Aug 2021

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It appears that, for now, the tech demons have been beaten back. Now, I can get on with my Satur… oh, wow, it’s Monday afternoon. Well, anyway, smooth sailing for the rest of the week, right? Look for a column sometime, one of these days.

And, if you’re also on the FPC  or a PPN regular, you might have caught this: I have been very casually approached about looking into founding an online classical Christian homeschool! This, not even in its infancy now, would not be unlike what Tom Ironsides did after the events of THE SUBSTITUTE. Whatever we do, we’ll be starting very small and slowly. But, in a year or five, who knows?

You’ll know, of course.

Another PPN tomorrow and that column soonish. P

I Think I Can Explain

24 Monday Feb 2020

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A lot of Chinese spies tourists in Florida lately.

In total, four Chinese men have been arrested for trespassing and taking photos at Naval Air Station Key West since September 2018, and two Chinese women have been arrested for trespassing at Mar-a-Lago since March 2019.

“Coincidences take a lot of planning,” said Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence.

Maybe. Or maybe it’s all literary. I have no idea about Mar-a-Lago, but the NAS visitors obviously wanted to see where Tom Ironsides crashed that Dassault Falcon in Shaded of Cuba (THE SUBSTITUTE). Ever wonder where the plane came from? You’ll find out soon enough, along with whatever became of their passenger.

Feminism = Witchcraft = Satanism

14 Friday Feb 2020

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Dr. Tom Ironsides has been proven correct once again; it’s like he and his author were on to something. The Atlantic, a magazine given to softly pushing the next great thing – cannibalism, has a new and exciting article on the rise of witchcraft in the remains of America.

“Witchcraft is feminism, it’s inherently political,” Gabriela Herstik, a witch and an author, told Sabat magazine. “It’s always been about the outsider, about the woman who doesn’t do what the church or patriarchy wants.”

Yes, witch, we know that. Rebellion against God, His Church, and His People. It affects everything in society, from the government, to the bar associations, to the public schools. Sayeth the Ironsides:

Later, he almost kicked himself: ‘“Feminists, queers, and globalists” would have been more accurate. Or, just “satanists…”’ He let it go. [THE SUBSTITUTE, Ch. 11]

Magical, huh?

End of the Year Fiction Update

27 Friday Dec 2019

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A few things, by way of update:

The reviews of THE SUBSTITUTE are slow to come, but they’re all good. The most recent from Amazon:

Jenn

5.0 out of 5 stars Glad I bought The Substitute

December 25, 2019

Verified Purchase
Surprisingly Delightful!
After seeing the unusual cover picture, I did not know what to expect. The author did not disappoint, it was an interesting read for me, for sure. His writing style and characters remind me a bit of Stuart Woods – I’m glad I bought this book!

 

Thanks, Jenn!

I have some edits prepared and underway to make the reading a little easier. Look for those soon and when you see them. Also, I am happy to announce the following tentative progress:

AURELIUS: Coming early in 2020; a Tom Ironsides (first person) novella and prequel to THE SUBSTITUTE; about 1/3 – 1/2 finished and rapidly gaining ground.

THE HUNTING OF ???: Also for 2020; another Ironsides’s adventure in the run-up to THE SUBSTITUTE (and AURELIUS); a novelette or shorter novella; about 1/2 finished.

SANGUINIS LEX: Another substantial novel that I hope to have out in the coming year. It’s a blended-genre book set in the Ironsides’s world, though only very briefly featuring him (and Dandy and the Bass Slayers…); the expression of an idea I have had since very early in the Century. It’s a dark and dangerous ride into a most uncomfortable subject. But hey, half the blending is romance, so there’s that. “Sanguinis Lex” roughly translates to “the law of the blood,” if that helps give any hints. This one is purey in draft form – they’re all in draft form – and it’s about (maybe) 1/5th complete, in an incomplete way. A most pressing literary endeavor.

As always, there will be more drivel here, perhaps with a few structural changes (like I always threaten); and look for the first TPC column of 2020 next week – a return to non-fictional views on the affairs of the nation, unique and interesting to be sure.

Much more to come.

News from the Fiction Front

26 Tuesday Nov 2019

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I’ve completed my mark-up of THE SUBSTITUTE. Hopefully, I’ll have a few minor corrections made by this evening. The plot is utterly unchanged. The pagination will be adjusted. I’m fixing a few typos. And, I decided that Vicky only needs to get engaged twice once. The margins are another issue – in some copies, the top is a little short. In others, it’s fine, or at least good enough. I’ll tinker with that.

And, over the Thanksgiving break, I plan to plug away at AURELIUS, a continuation of the Ironsides’s saga. And, there’s another novel simmering. I’m aiming to get one or both of those out sometime shortly after New Year’s.

“A GRITTY, REALISTIC LOOK INSIDE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL”

19 Tuesday Nov 2019

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The first 5-Star review of THE SUBSTITUTE is now live at Amazon:

Thomas
5.0 out of 5 starsA GRITTY, REALISTIC LOOK INSIDE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL

November 17, 2019

It takes courage to write a book. Few things are as intimidating as sitting down in front of a blank computer screen day after day and trying to fill it with something worthwhile. Perrin Lovett is doubly brave. He has written an original, exciting, entertaining story. But he also had the courage to take on the most sacred cow in the vast American herd – the public schools. THE SUBSTITUTE gives us a vivid, realistic, inside look at the failing public schools based on real, day-to-day experience. Many non-fiction studies of public education have been appeared in the past few years. But THE SUBSTITUTE is the only novel on the subject I’m aware of that compares to the famous “muckraker novels” of the early 20th Century that exposed such social evils as child labor, worker safety, and political corruption. Writers like Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffens changed America by using fictional truth to expose the social ills they addressed. I hope that Perrin Lovett’s novel will have a similar effect on how we look at public schools, which demand an ever greater bite of tax revenue while producing an ever worse result.

Perrin Lovett is a natural story-teller, with a superb command of language and a tone, sardonic at times, that is appropriate to his subject. And he has created a splendid protagonist, Dr. Tom Ironsides, the substitute of the title. Dr. Ironsides is also Colonel Ironsides, retired from the Marine Corps and from subsequent “black ops” with the CIA. He is an academic, trained in the Classics, and a warrior, trained to function in a world where survival demands competence.

At first I was concerned how Lovett would get such an engaging character from the battlefield against terrorism to the battlefield against ignorance. But he does it quite well, quite credibly. Ironsides is one of those people with the self-confidence and the idealism to want to spend his later life setting things right. What better venue for his knowledge, skills, and natural authority than the schools? But since he’s not officially certified, he has to start out teaching as a full-time substitute. As a substitute, he covers many different grade levels and subjects, giving the reader a genuine cross-section autopsy of an unsustainable system. It’s crushed by its own bureaucracy, treats its students more like inmates of a prison, destroys love of learning, and drains the heart out of the teachers. Most of them love their kids and aspire to teach them well, but they’re over-burdened with ever more testing and data-keeping and bureaucratic procedure. Instead of making the classroom a place of excellence in learning, public schools are creating sinkholes of mediocrity.

I won’t spoil the ending except to say it’s very satisfying. It’s fictional, of course, but it ends the only way the whole national public school debacle can end if America is to remain a strong, free, prosperous, self-governing nation. Only a well-educated people can keep it that way. If we do follow the new course described in THE SUBSTITUTE, we’ll have Perrin Lovett to thank.

 

Wow. That feels like a heavy responsibility. For my part, I’ve started making a few minor changes to the book. First, there are always little improvements to make, my pedantic CYA in the Afterword aside. Second, the formatting needs a little work, which I can accomplish soon. (For that, I blame the computer and the template).

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Let’s keep those going!

NEW VIDEO – THE SUBSTITUTE Promo

18 Monday Nov 2019

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Back on the Tube!

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From the updated review of Thomas Moore:

It takes courage to write a book. Few things are as intimidating as sitting down in front of a blank computer screen day after day and trying to fill it with something worthwhile. Perrin Lovett is doubly brave. He has written an original, exciting, entertaining story. But he also had the courage to take on the most sacred cow in the vast American herd – the public schools. THE SUBSTITUTE gives us a vivid, realistic, inside look at the failing public schools based on real, day-to-day experience. Many non-fiction studies of public education have been appeared in the past few years. But THE SUBSTITUTE is the only novel on the subject I’m aware of that compares to the famous “muckraker novels” of the early 20th Century that exposed such social evils as child labor, worker safety, and political corruption. Writers like Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Lincoln Steffens changed America by using fictional truth to expose the social ills they addressed. I hope that Perrin Lovett’s novel will have a similar effect on how we look at public schools, which demand an ever greater bite of tax revenue while producing an ever worse result.

Perrin Lovett is a natural story-teller, with a superb command of language and a tone, sardonic at times, that is appropriate to his subject. And he has created a splendid protagonist, Dr. Tom Ironsides, the substitute of the title. Dr. Ironsides is also Colonel Ironsides, retired from the Marine Corps and from subsequent “black ops” with the CIA. He is an academic, trained in the Classics, and a warrior, trained to function in a world where survival demands competence.

At first I was concerned how Lovett would get such an engaging character from the battlefield against terrorism to the battlefield against ignorance. But he does it quite well, quite credibly.

Ironsides is one of those people with the self-confidence and the idealism to want to spend his later life setting things right. What better venue for his knowledge, skills, and natural authority than the schools? But since he’s not officially certified, he has to start out teaching as a full-time substitute. As a substitute, he covers many different grade levels and subjects, giving the reader a genuine cross-section autopsy of an unsustainable system. It’s crushed by its own bureaucracy, treats its students more like inmates of a prison, destroys love of learning, and drains the heart out of the teachers. Most of them love their kids and aspire to teach them well, but they’re over-burdened with ever more testing and data-keeping and bureaucratic procedure. Instead of making the classroom a place of excellence in learning, public schools are creating sinkholes of mediocrity.

I won’t spoil the ending except to say it’s very satisfying. It’s fictional, of course, but it ends the only way the whole national public school debacle can end if America is to remain a strong, free, prosperous, self-governing nation. Only a well-educated people can keep it that way. If we do follow the new course described in THE SUBSTITUTE, we’ll have Perrin Lovett to thank.

Doubly Brave. Join me.