Can Shackles Help Griner Grow Up?
It’s a fact that, often, bad experiences can be good for you. When I was in my mid-teens, I failed a mathematics exam.
This was not an unusual occurrence. I hated maths, had no interest in the subject, and on Mondays…
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..when Mr. Sutherland imposed his weekly test, my performances were consistently dismal.
I endured his strictures happily for maths didn’t matter.
Excelling in History and English, good enough in Latin…
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…Greek and German, doing sums well or badly was not important in my life nor in my future, as I then perceived it.
But suddenly I learned that the university I’d set my heart on required at least a minimal level of proficiency in..
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….maths!
All summer long I toiled, little grasp of what was in the books, but over the weeks, developing a dashed fine ability to parrot what I read.
And I passed the re-sit.
So that May-time failure had galvanised me, my mind made sharp and focused.
Hence my headline.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brittney-griner-russia-court-shackles-b2110383.html
Griner has long shown herself a shallow, graceless brute….
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….holding her own country’s anthem in contemptuous indifference.
A few sound thrashings when she was a brat might have helped…
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….but too late for that.
So might her current plight…..
Britney Griner Appears In Russian Court In Shackles…
….at least make her realise how privileged she is to have been born in the United States, where she has been able to win fame and fortune.
I see there’s talk of a prisoner swap.
Perhaps Plastiqua Pelosi’s husband?
Nancy Pelosi’s husband charged with DUI causing injury: Napa County DA
He is also charged with driving with 0.08% blood alcohol level or higher.
No …
The 82-year-old was detained on May 28 around 11:44 p.m. and booked on two misdemeanor counts at the time, according to the Napa County Criminal Justice Network’s records.
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…because he is no longer behind bars having been released the morning after!
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brittney-griner-russia-court-shackles-b2110383.htm
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