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Tweet Colorado State Rep. Joe Salazar’s ham-handed, even troglodyte, advice for campus women worried about rape came as no surprise to me.  My experiences at UC Berkeley thirty-odd years ago left me fully prepared for this Leftist approach to females and true self-defense, an approach that hides both misogyny and an overriding fear for the [...]

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Tweet I didn’t enjoy my time at UC Berkeley.  Even though I didn’t realize it at the time, already then I was fighting Marxist tropes so I found my classes nonsensical.  This isn’t sour grapes speaking.  Although I found the classes foolish, I still managed to graduate Phi Beta Kappa, etc. Even though I didn’t [...]

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Tweet The American Academy of Pediatrics has a plan.  To protect your daughter from . . . you, it wants all girls who could be sexually active (that means every girl 10 or older) to have her own personal stash of “Plan B,” aka “the morning after pill: During Thanksgiving week the American Academy of [...]

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Tweet The other day, Zombie put up a post that resonated with me on more levels than you can imagine.  It turns out that Zombie deciding to drop in on a lecture at UC Berkeley (my alma mater) to hear a lecture by an English as a Second Language, or ESL, professor (my father’s job), [...]

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Tweet Sproul Hall houses UC Berkeley’s administration.  Back in pre-computer days, when you wanted to get anything done (i.e., enroll in classes or get forms or whatever), you had to go to Sproul.  The lines at Sproul were always ridiculously long and slow.  Way too often, after I’d stood in line seemingly forever, just as [...]

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Tweet The UC regents voted for a steep increase in tuition.   Some have pointed to the unedifying spectacle of whining middle class students taking to the streets to protest the tuition increase, since they prefer to have California’s working class, most of whom will not attend the school, bear the financial burden.  Although I agree [...]

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Tweet I pretty much have no words for how much I hated UC Berkeley.  And I see from Steve Crowder’s visit there that little has changed:

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