An excerpt from this article: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9376232/free-speech-is-so-last-century-todays-students-want-the-right-to-be-comfortable/ Brendan O’Neill and Harriet Brown discuss the rise of the Stepford student Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students….
Read moreIlan Rubin (Part I) — Guitar Center Drum Off 2011
THIS speaks to me. Big hi-hats, massive cymbals, big FAT sounding snare, big fat attack on the toms (and not too many), skill, dynamics, style, power, speed, agility, GROOVE and well crafted arrangement for a solo. I don’t go to may of these types of events anymore (fortunately I’ve been working or can’t get to…
Read moreCorruption In The #NYPD-How To Ruin A Life By Planting A Gun
This stuff just DOES NOT HAPPEN to those “opressed” white college women anywhere in our country. This doesn’t happen to people on the upper east side. This just does not happen to white men who are robbing people using tactics that are often unethical and questionably legal down in the Wall Street area. Let’s just…
Read moreAlan Dershowitz Denies Suit’s Allegations of Sex With a Minor
An excerpt from an article written by Mr. Dershowitz , a professor of law emeritus at Harvard Law School found here: http://www.wsj.com/articles/alan-m-dershowitz-a-nightmare-of-false-accusation-that-could-happen-to-you-1421280860 Imagine the following situation: You’re a 76-year-old man, happily married for nearly 30 years, with three children and two grandchildren. You’ve recently retired after 50 years of teaching at Harvard Law School. You…
Read moreI Love Men, But I’m Thinking of Having a Baby Without One
Another selfish woman…another fatherless child. Sad. From Yahoo.com… On the best days of my life, and the cruelest hours of the night, I have always had an inner-meditation: I am excited about the future. However, this summer, when I turned 37, while licking the wounds of yet another rough breakup, my mantra didn’t seem to…
Read moreThe Music Department – @FWCmusical
Making things happen today! These can be long days, but watching a Broadway show come together starting from the beginning is an amazing experience. I can’t wait to see how it all turns out in a few weeks. Come see this show. It is going to be funny! The First Wives Club
Read more#Manspreading
An excerpt from this article by Cathy Young, a regular contributor to Reason magazine and Real Clear Politics: http://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/manspreading-but-women-hog-subway-space-too-cathy-young-1.9776186 As we enter 2015, the latest feminist crusade seems to come straight from the life-imitates-satire department. It has everything one could want in a caricature of feminism: petty grievances, gleeful male-bashing, egregious double standards. And it…
Read moreWhat to think about while looking for your soul mate -a.k.a. THE ONE
More food for thought by Matt Walsh. The original and full article is HERE: http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/i-didnt-marry-the-one-she-become-the-one-after-i-married-her/ We think that our task is to find this preordained partner and marry them because, after all, they’re “The One.” They were designed for us, for us and only us. It’s written in the stars, prescribed in the cosmos, commanded…
Read moreThe Drummer Who Invented Jazz’s Basic Beat
Kenny Clarke performs at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968. He spent the second half of his career in Europe. JazzSign/Lebrecht Music & Arts/Corbis It doesn’t take an expert to identify this sound as a jazz rhythm: Musicians call it “spang-a-lang,” for obvious phonetic reasons, and it’s so synonymous with jazz, it no longer occurs…
Read moreMicro-aggression: Victims Frantically Search For Offense
Micro-aggression: a form of “unintended discrimination.” It is depicted by the use of known social norms of behavior and/or expression that, while without conscious choice of the user, has the same effect as conscious, intended discrimination” – from wikipedia The definition of this theory is seriously flawed because “aggression” already has a meaning. Micro-aggression, as…
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