Steven Allen Adams – Conversations with Myself

What I felt like as a teaching assistant.

Thursday I started something that I plan to do once a week.

I started volunteering as a teaching assistant at my church’s Christian School.

Kind of a weird move for me, but my church needed to staff, I typically have a day to kill, and I have a tie to the school: I was their first graduate when they reopened 10 years ago. It was a big move for me at the time; one I volunteered for.

So this school doesn’t have grades as you might know them. The high school is called the upper learning center, which is where I volunteer. I basically just check homework, scoring, give permission for bathroom breaks, etc.

A few of the kids tested me in little ways, probably thinking I wouldn’t notice. I did, but I let it go. The day went well though and one of the students paid me a compliment (the student was a cousin of mine in the interests of full disclosure).

The entire time I though “Wow, this must be how Screech felt when he returned to Bayside High School to be Mr. Belding’s assistant.”

Both my Cybersecurity Act story and my Tides/ACORN story have done quite well over at The West Virginia Examiner. The ACORN story even received slams via Twitter: one from a blogger with Grist (a poor man’s Huffington Post for the Green set); and Ken Ward Jr., a left-leaning reporter/blogger for The Charleston Gazette. They can’t knock the content of the article, so they’re slamming it as conspiracy theory nonsense, accusing me of making the Tides Foundation into a Satan-like bad guy.

It’s funny they accuse me of something (which I didn’t do), then do the exact same thing to me that they’re accusing me of doing. I didn’t say they were Satanic for supporting anti-coal groups. I simply pointed out that they WERE supporting anti-coal groups. If you’re anti-coal, then wouldn’t that be a good thing, thus making my article a positive one?

It’s not a conspiracy theory to follow a direct money trail. Tides could actually be pro-coal, but if they’re money – even one dollar – is going towards keeping hard working West Virginian’s from extracting coal, then Tides is supporting the anti-coal movement. I get mocked for following the money; something Woodward and Bernstein perfected:

I’m in good company.

Lazy Friday night tonight. I’m reformatting the desktop, watching something on VH1, and enjoying the peace and quiet of country living. I had a guest out here earlier who wanted to learn how to use Twitter to get information and reports out to the public. I was more than happy to spread the word of social media.

There is a revolution coming, and my last name is Adams. I’m positioned perfectly to play a role.

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