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Yours portly is late to the party with this one, but, hey, is it ever truly too late to celebrate a full-scale immolation?

Or, as the title indicates, a defenestration, which is just a fancy way of saying, “throwing someone out of a window.”  That is very much how the vice presidential debate between Senator J.D. Vance and Governor Tim Walz felt a few weeks ago.  On the one side stood a mighty hillbilly culture warrior, ready to stand astride the debate stage like a Colossus.  On the other was a mealy-mouthed Elmer Fudd, who looked Elmer BeFuddled the entire time.

I am a high school history (and music!) teacher; while we do know a lot of stuff, that doesn’t mean we know how to apply it.  There is knowing a thing, and there is knowing it.  One of the biggest wakeup calls is going from the theoretical and abstract realm of the classroom and entering the real world; it becomes apparent pretty quickly that all that theory and knowledge amount to precious little if they can’t be equipped or adapted to handle Reality.

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