Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 47. Sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset 7:07 PM for 12h 10m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 2.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Alcohol & Licensing Committee meets at 4:45 PM and the Library Board meets at 6:30 PM. Whitewater’s School Board goes into closed session shortly after 6 PM, to resume in open session at 7 PM.
On this day in 1815, after escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.
David French writes of three possible usages of ‘woke’:
Woke, defined:
— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 15, 2023
Positive definition-increased awareness of very real historical and existing systemic injustice.
Negative definition-illiberal progressivism centered around race/gender.
Bad faith right-wing definition-anything even one millimeter to the tweeter's left.
It’s the third usage that one hears from vapid populists and trolls: they decry a term that they won’t or can’t define properly. They use woke and wokeism the way they use Marxist/Communist/Socialist/RadicalLeft/Whatever/Whatever: as one nebulous catchall term because through ignorance, indolence, or incompetency they cannot or will not define the term precisely. French, in a single tweet, did better than a thousand bad-faith, low-effort populists.
A proper high-school education should prepare students to define terms concretely.
Cat and Owl Have Intense Stare Down Through Window: