In threes

"We got a lot of first time kids is played." Coach speaks.
"He holds up a card and I do what it says," High school football athlete speaks.

The margin of literacy between the two is narrow, scarey.

When Christian fundamentalists speak, they are denigrated for their version of the creation of man and the earth. When Native Americans speak about their fundamental, animalistic myths about the circle of life, they are honored and respected.

The margin of error between the God and primitivism is filled by liberalism or political correctness.

An ongoing 9 year study, concluding in 2009, costing 200 million dollars, will determine whether CT scans of lungs should be standard care if they can detect lung cancer. No agenda-driven politician or researcher asked the public to approve this waste of their money. Nor did any scientist ask the common sense question, "Would smokers quit after they were scanned and knew that cigarettes were harming their lungs or even killing them?" The obvious answer is "No!"

An error in realism and fundamental economics lies behind the agenda-driven avoidance of truth.

No warrior on the gridiron today acting defensively or offensively (coach neologisms) could write With the Old Breed.. This is a literate memoir by a soldier in World War II, E. B. Sledge. He was just a boy, quickly turned man, from a lost generation, but he reminds us of how far back we have slid since a time when literacy, God and truth (a dynamic trio) were safely acknowledged in American culture.