{"id":1083,"date":"2001-10-17T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2001-10-18T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2001-10-17T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2001-10-18T03:30:12","slug":"this_is_sadly_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/17\/this_is_sadly_t.html","title":{"rendered":"This is (sadly) True"},"content":{"rendered":"

Randy Cunningham publishes This is True<\/a>. It goes out as a free newsletter, a subscription newsletter, books, and a syndicated column. <\/p>\n

Usually these items are of a “Boy, was that crook stupid,” or “Golly, what a whacky thing to do.” Occasionally, the column gets on a soap box, usually justified. One of Cunningham’s bugaboos is “zero tolerance” laws and regs in schools. A most recent example is given here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’d disagree with his characterization of such laws as “terrorism” (let’s not overuse the word into meaninglessness), but I’d agree that they are over-the-top group-think mind-control of the sort that terrorist groups usually seem to promote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Randy Cunningham publishes This is True. It goes out as a free newsletter, a subscription newsletter, books, and a syndicated column. 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