Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve been hostile to teacher’s unions since I was a child. I saw them from both ends: as a lifelong public school student and as a child whose father (reluctantly) belonged to the California teacher’s union. In the classroom, my teachers were decrepit fossils, many of whom hated students, and
Continue readingI know I’m just grumpy, but this promotional mailing from Ithaca College rubbed me the wrong way: Ready to write environmental wrongs. Ithaca College will turn your academic passions into unforgettable experiences — and make you ready for the adventure of your life. I know that the first sentence is
Continue readingBear with me here, because I’m about to prove how simplistic and primitive my mind is. I need you all to help enlighten me. Some high school students I know got an assignment to set up and complete an experiment. Some of the experiments they came up with include looking
Continue reading(I made the following comments in this morning’s newsletter, and a friend suggested that they’re good enough to be in a stand-alone post. Incidentally, if you’re interested in getting the reasonably daily Bookworm Room newsletter, you can sign up here.) I’ve been working with some students helping them to review
Continue readingI’m not boasting when I say that I move in very rarefied circles. It’s a fact that became glaringly obvious to me today when I started reaching out to legal colleagues via LinkedIn. I’m launching a new business enterprise, and those connections will be useful. For those unfamiliar with it,
Continue readingTo begin with, DL Sly is right that, if I don’t make each and every one of you aware of Iowahawk’s latest post of genius, I am doing you a profound disservice. I won’t even make an effort to summarize what Iowahawk has done. Suffice to say that your life
Continue readingSo now we know what historical ignorance looks like: A Pennsylvania high school marching band is raising eyebrows with a halftime performance that commemorates the Russian revolution, complete with red flags, olive military-style uniforms, and giant hammers and sickles. “St. Petersburg: 1917” is the theme for the New Oxford High
Continue readingIt all started when my sister and I got to talking about the up-coming Olympics. I used to enjoy them when ABC presented each day’s events as a tightly packaged three-hour narrative, complete with villains (usually the Russian, French, or East German judges) and myriad heroes, whether they were the
Continue readingDon Quixote and I dined at McDonald’s today. Usually, the employees are Hispanic. Their English is fractured, but the service is competent and friendly. Today, we had a young Caucasian boy, who looked to be around 17 or 18. He did not look as if he had a disability. (I
Continue readingFrom Season 1 of The Simpsons (waaaay back in 1990), comes “Bart the General“: After defending Lisa from school bully Nelson Muntz, Bart becomes Nelson’s latest target. Sick of the harassment and torment, Bart, Grampa Simpson, and Herman (a slightly deranged military antique store dealer with a missing arm) rally
Continue readingCalifornia used to have the finest public education system in America. It wasn’t lack of funding that killed it; it was Leftist corruption and insanity. Don’t believe me? Read these two articles. From Bruce Kesler: Important Report On The Sinkhole That Is Higher Education From Donald Douglas: California State Colleges
Continue readingIt’s already old news to you that statistical data shows that Obama is the most polarizing president ever. Much as I’d like to blame Obama, it seems that, rather than causing the polarization, he reflects it: One Gallup chart ranks presidents from Eisenhower to Obama on polarization during their third
Continue readingWe spend a lot of time talking here about the way our Progressive culture infantilizes young people. Just think about the way the whole liberal world had a collective head explosion when Newt suggested that young people get jobs to learn the value of discipline and achieve the satisfaction of
Continue readingOne of the reasons a lot of people, myself included, like Newt is because he says politically incorrect things that ordinary people think. In other words, his politically correct utterances aren’t out of the KKK playbook, they’re out of “the reasonable common-sense before 1960s Leftist education took over” playbook. A
Continue readingRegular readers know Marica, who occasionally comments here. If you like her comments, as I do, you might want to check out the blog she’s started, Big Food, Big Garden, Big Life. While you’re there, be sure to read this post, about the Left’s smug belief in the righteousness of
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