The Bryan Hyde Show hour one 8-19-2020

How can you tell when satire is getting a bit too close to the uncomfortable truth? When the 'woke' sourpusses seek to shut it down. Twitter has been engaged in just such a purge and Spiked Online says this shows just how humorless our RightThink overlords really are.

Someone recently referred to the U.S. Postal Service as "a multi billion dollar spam folder." James Bovard has a timely history lesson regarding how the post office has been in decline for at least the past 50 years.

While the move to online or virtual schooling may be encouraging to those seeking to disengage from the government education pipeline, it's bringing some new and unexpected risks. Kerry McDonald has a warning about how remote learning is bringing out the lust for control in certain school and Child Protective Service officials who are monitoring parents and students for 'virtual truancy.'

Speaking of keeping tabs on the citizenry, Lenore Skenazy has a fascinating write up about a proposed plan in Tennessee where officials wanted to do monthly "well-being inspections" on every child in the state. Thankfully, enough parents stood up and officials wisely backed off.

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