Education, fisting kits, and the canned peaches issue
An outraged correspondent sent me this link. Their general point of view, seemingly not uncommon, is that fisting kits are not an appropriate part of the public school curriculum.
You ever wonder about the canned peaches issue?
We don’t have a canned peaches issue, for the most part.
Approximately the right amount of canned peaches gets produced and distributed because people decide for themselves how much they want to buy using their own money (not counting food stamps).
[Sure, there are probably lots of agricultural subsidies for peach growers, but we can ignore them for purposes of this example.]
As peach consumers, we don’t have to organize to protect peach production against hostile political activity from the pear and pineapple lobbies.
We don’t have to worry about the federal peach budget getting cut.
People who like pears don’t have to resent us and wonder why their hard-earned tax dollars go to fund peaches they don’t even eat.
We don’t have to be morally outraged when we find out some peach farmer is cheating on his wife. In fact, we’ll probably never even hear about it, because nobody gives a damn.
You might think the above has nothing to do with education.
It has everything to do with education.
And now, by means of my evil powers of mind control, you will think of the relationship between free market economics and social harmony every time you hear the song “Peaches” by the band “Presidents of the United States of America”.
“Movin’ to the country. Gonna eat a lot of peaches…”
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Didn’t know there was such thing as a “fisting kit” until now. Just thought all you needed was a fist, tbh…
They’re dental dam kits. I’m reasonably confident the label “fisting kits” originated in flippant questions from students about what the rubber glove and KY were supposed to be for — given the relative frequency of oral sex versus fisting.
At least, based on MY OWN impression of their respective frequencies. Maybe I’m just boring, though. [shrug]