Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers). Let’s just say that what we have here at this blog is a little game played by 6.552610522259909e-7 % of the people in the world today!*
Pretty damn impressive, no?  ( psst! hey, Exchange Students from the autonomous region of Madrid!…the answer he is looking for is…si!! ) Now I know some people might say, ‘you know, it is still a pretty small percentage there, Doctrinaires!’ To these people we say:  ‘be scottian, insist on remaining rogerian or stay whatever-the-hell it is you are, clark‘!

Today’s Post is not about stats. At least not directly. Today’s Post is about one of our own, taking steps, doing things, pushing boundaries and wearing a hat (on her damn head) right into the heart of this here nation’s Capitol, here. DownSpring Joanne has taken the Wakefield Doctrine to the District of frickin Columbia!  Let’s hear it for Joanne!! jeez goddamn! excellent work, yo. Look on that photo!!

Seriously, we do want to thank the Mistress of Questionnaires for bravely taking the Doctrine to a place that can totally use the benefits of understanding the nature of clarks, scotts and rogers. Not for nuthin, but I choose to believe that as Joanne walked around the Capital of the US of A, surely she would have passed by a famous, powerful politician (or even better, a Lobbyist). And as they passed, that other person, deep in thought about writing laws and and passing bills and such, would have their thought process interrupted,

(…now let’s see….” Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government… yeah and freedom of Doctrines too…I think that would only be right…”)

…pardon me Ms, the Congressperson has important business in the rotunda!

You know, it is possible. And the simple undeniable fact is that a whole bunch of people…ok a small number of people…well, the people that Joanne walked past when she had the hat (on her damn head) saw the words: theWakefield Doctrine clarkscottroger …alright,  those who walked close enough to read it!  But the simple reality is that the awareness of the Wakefield Doctrine is moving forward. Susan B Anthony eat your heart out!

It has been a totally satisfying week to begin the school year with! Ms. AKH (our current Speaker for the scotts), total Tasmanian when it comes to finding ways to increase the Readership of the Wakefield Doctrine, has been successful already! New Reader,  ‘CY’  has taken the step of Commentationing. Welcome CY….’cellent work ‘KH **  We look forward to your Reading (lol) (… Mees Hanie? ¿Qué diablos significa eso? de mirar hacia adelante a la lectura … mi Inglés sigue siendo no tan bueno!…)

Still a lot of work to do and  time is not slowing down. So write in your suggestions (for expanding the reach and presence of the Doctrine) we will print any and all suggestions (except those from glenn…our diminutive glenn is still in self-imposed timeout…we know he can self-actualize his own damn self…just needs a little time and a lot of support…so let’s all gather around glenn and have a group relate-to-each-other-in-a-circle-but-no-touchee…’come on glenn…evolve,  binyon, evolve!).

Seeing as we are back in the school year, we should end the Post with a Wakefield Doctrine Lesson of the Day ( …aiyee!! Mees Hanie! qué? una prueba? No estoy listo!… )

The topic today is Progress, so I gathered some famous quotes about progress and they are from a clark, a scott and a roger. Seeing as how it is the start of the year and we have new Readers here, we will make this an open book quiz. ( CY?  if you can to contribute to the discussion and manage to do so without totally embarrassing all of us, there could be a hat (for your damn head) in this for you!) (yes, you may consult with AKH…) So, here they are in no-you-can’t-get-this-wrong-I-frickin-already-told-you-the-order-of-the-types:

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) {way-dead clark}

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.  (H. Ross Perot) {Still alive scott }

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize… the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished. (Claude Levi-Strauss) {yes, a dead roger}

Mr. B get your overall-made-from-a-tuxedo-wearin-ass on over here…we need some music

Well, it is good to see that the Summer vacation has done nothing to temper your clearly odd sense of the appropriate… but seriously let’s get something a bit more…edifying…we do have exchange students!

* 45 Readers, current world population 6,867,491,948  you do the math…roger
** the improper shortening of names and words is a clarklike approximation of the characteristically scottian use of the diminutive of people’s names.