Skunks don’t cause much trouble, their great defense is the only thing that makes them so darn undesirable. I wouldn’t mind them at all if I wasn’t worried we’ll run into each other unexpectedly. I’ve learned to shoo them on, they really don’t care about anything, but if you’re mildly annoying (from a distance), they’ll move along. And moving along is the whole point, for if they pick your stuff for a den, they’ll need to go and that’ll be a guaranteed mess.
It’s rare to get firsts these days :).
An ideology became so ingrained in education its flag was flown alongside that of state and country. And the people who wished Jesus were there instead high on the wall, turned to the ugly demagogues who would hear their grievances. In the tug-of-war between competing ideologies, both sides had been willing to erode the fundaments of democracy, too happy were they to see public institutions sanction their ideologies disguised as righteous truths.
Raising kids in the middle of America’s culture war can be jarring.