1) Last time I was at the post office, they were advertising Walt Whitman stamps, but they didn't actually have any available.
2) At an outdoors pizza-and-drinks going away party that I went to this summer, a (non-tenured) college instructor who I met there said that there had been this whole hullaballoo (sp.?) recently in the gen ed curriculum that he teaches in, since some kids said that they shouldn't assign Walt Whitman's poetry since he's racist, and then all of the teaching staff had to have this whole meeting and try to reason through the kids' perspective and look at things from their way or whatnot and then agree on what to say to the kids, even though it wasn't all of the kids, just these kids from this one particular section.
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