America the Illiterate -- The World Wide Web Ain't -- The Friendly Russian Bear

Do students at poorly performing schools have a constitutional right to a better education? On Friday, a Federal District Court judge in Michigan decided that they did not when he dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed by students at troubled schools in Detroit.

A student who don't learn to read

is liable to pick up a creed

about the flat earth

or Obama's birth

that makes him a citizen weed. 

Authoritarian governments in the Middle East are increasingly adopting a version of China’s approach to online censorship, walling their citizens off from swaths of the internet and denying access to popular websites, often with the aid of Western technology.
WSJ

The freedom of internet sites
in some places gets the last rites
as countries connive
to quickly deprive
their citizens of civil rights.


President Trump, who has been under fire for not aggressively confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin over election interference, said Russia is no longer targeting the United States.
Washington Post


The friendly Russian bear
is welcomed ev'rywhere.
He does not spy or kill;
and Trump is not his shill.
Oh, do not turn your back
on such a loving pack
as Russian folk can be
(when they're not KGB.)