Everybody Hates A Season Finale

I started watching the sitcom ‘Everybody Hates Chris’ with my son in the middle of last year on Hulu. It’s our second show we’ve watched together – ‘Black-ish’ being the other. I would often stop the video during many episodes to explain some funny and interesting cultural references since I had many of the same…

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Betsy DeVos Changing the Rules On Title IX Campus Sex Misconduct Enforcement

“On campuses throughout the country, I’ve seen firsthand how colleges and universities are wrongfully implementing their own kangaroo courts to adjudicate accusations of sexual misconduct and destroying the lives of wrongfully accused male students,” Miltenberg said. “Title IX was meant to be a tool for fairness, not a means for colleges and universities to micromanage…

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Middlebury Reckons With a Protest Gone Wrong

I’ve read Dinesh D’Sousa, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Steven Pinker, Christina Hoff-Sommers, Ta-Nehisi Coates. I’ve watched William F. Buckley and found his show FASCINATING. I’ve checked out Ayn Rand, Gloria Steinem, Milton Friedman and people like Milo Yiannopoulos. I take in as much information as I can to have a well informed opinion. There are…

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Closed minds on campus 

An excerpt: Last month, in the early hours, an act of traumatising racist violence occurred on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Students woke up to find that someone had written, in chalk, the words “Trump 2016” on various pavements and walls around campus. “I think it was an act of violence,” said…

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Are elite college students victims of “white supremacy”?

An excerpt from HERE: http://spectator.org/articles/65001/cult-social-justice THE CULT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE By Robert Stacy McCain There are too many white musicians in the Oberlin College jazz band. This was among the numerous complaints — “concrete and unmalleable demands” — in a 14-page manifesto issued last week by the Black Students Union (BSU) at the elite private liberal arts…

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Safe Spaces, Trigger Warnings and The Return Of Kids To Pre-Schoolers While In College

It appears as if college is a return to pre-school. I refuse to send my kids to a school that has “trigger warnigns”, “safe spaces,” and feels that the student body needs to be protected in this way. This is totally ridiculous.  This is a grea comment: “Education occurs when you’re exposed to the world,…

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