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Happy November!

01 Tuesday Nov 2016

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blog, perrinlovett.me, Radio, writing

Happy All Saints Day, friends.

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This morning I had a great, short chat with Matt Patrick on the Morning Show of KTRH, 740 AM, Houston. I saw that a few of you clicked the “listen live” link I provided yesterday. Maybe you heard my coffee-swilling rambling about the state of education. It’s not my main subject and at 6:45 on a vacation morning I wasn’t at full throttle. Still it was a great segment.

Matt, Dale and the crew over there run a very professional operation. I haven’t been on the radio in about five years. I have lost some of that quick, DJ voice. Those guys are fast and succinct. A great show. I was happy to contribute what I could. Many thanks to the crew and staff.

And many thanks to all of you for making October the biggest and best month in blog history. In was close but last night we managed to edge out September by a slight margin. This morning I already have visitors from: the USA, UK, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Germany, and Hungary. Hello, all! This month I’m looking for another increase – a new order of magnitude if you will. Thanks for all the help.

I’m proud of the little site. I wrote a cigar story that led to some “professional” reviews. I wrote a book review for a best-selling author. That lead to a dialogue with the author – a great man with a great message. (And, hello, Gabbers!) I wrote about the colleges and I got a request from the media in a major market. I am humbled.

I’m also tired. In a good way. Been toting bags around amusement parks and trotting after tweens and teens and other crazies. Fun times. 500 miles and I’ll be back with more rambling finery. There’s big things a happening out there.

Stay tuned!

Perrin Live: The Kids Are Okay?

31 Monday Oct 2016

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education, Perrin Lovett, Radio

Okay. Even on a vacation I still keep going. Tomorrow morning at around 6:45 a.m. EST I will be on the KTHR (Houston) morning show with Matt Patrick.

We’ll be talking about the education system or whatever became of it. Tune in here if you’re up. I’ll try to be coherent and sobered up…

Should be a good time.

What Passes For A Blog Post: A Hog Post…

28 Friday Oct 2016

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BREXIT, economics, growth, hogs, UK

Let’s see. I’m on a little vaca for a few days. Posts may be a bit erratic. May dredge up some golden oldies for you.

The news…

Weiner! Hilarious…

Economically, the predictable predictors of doom got it all wrong with BREXIT. Post-BREXIT UK economy is growing, not collapsing as forecast.

Okay. Here’s a personal message for those of you in the Southeastern USA. On I-95 (and several secondaries) the pigs are everywhere. No, not the cops. Well, yes, actually – a lot of police working those quotas. But, this evening, I mean real pigs!

This morning, even before dawn, I saw a horde of wild hogs on the outside medians here and there.

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Like these. At least they won’t try to pull you over.

I’ve never seen so many so close to traffic before. Before sunrise I logged maybe 4 hours out there. Saw more hogs than deer. Odd. As I said they’re on the outside (passenger side). I don’t think I can help. Hard to shoot a shotgun through the car, in the dark, while steering, smoking a cigar and drinking coffee. Let me know if you have a trick or something for that.

Don’t really. Vacation and all…

Have a great weekend!

Perrin

 

Stupid Is As Stupid Does. Or Doesn’t. Or Just Can’t.

26 Wednesday Oct 2016

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America, children, education, learning, schools, society, stupidity

The other day I was mildly concerned about college students trying to find those elusive safe spaces. Turns out, that may be all they’re capable of. Either schools are not teaching or humans are becoming mentally retarded as the default setting. The esteemed Dr. Walter Williams explains:

Do you wonder why Sen. Bernie Sanders and his ideas are so popular among American college students? The answer is that they, like so many other young people who think they know it all, are really uninformed and ignorant. You say, “Williams, how dare you say that?! We’ve mortgaged our home to send our children to college.” Let’s start with the 2006 geographic literacy survey of youngsters between 18 and 24 years of age by National Geographic and Roper Public Affairs.

Less than half could identify New York and Ohio on a U.S. map. Sixty percent could not find Iraq or Saudi Arabia on a map of the Middle East, and three-quarters could not find Iran or Israel. In fact, 44 percent could not locate even one of those four countries. Youngsters who had taken a geography class didn’t fare much better. By the way, when I attended elementary school, during the 1940s, we were given blank U.S. maps, and our assignment was to write in the states. Today such an assignment might be deemed oppressive, if not racist.

According to a Philadelphia magazine article, the percentage of college grads who can read and interpret a food label has fallen from 40 to 30. They are six times likelier to know who won “American Idol” than they are to know the name of the speaker of the House. A high-school teacher in California handed out an assignment that required students to use a ruler. Not a single student knew how.

An article on News Forum for Lawyers titled “Study Finds College Students Remarkably Incompetent” cites a study done by the American Institutes for Research that revealed that over 75 percent of two-year college students and 50 percent of four-year college students were incapable of completing everyday tasks. About 20 percent of four-year college students demonstrated only basic mathematical ability, while a steeper 30 percent of two-year college students could not progress past elementary arithmetic. NBC News reported that Fortune 500 companies spend about $3 billion annually on training employees in “basic English.”

If this generation can’t use rulers, how long before some future cohort won’t even be able to speak? How, then, will we hear and understand their feeble cries for safe spaces and social justice?

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The College Fix.

Given these observations, one sincerely hopes it’s the system and not the brains that have failed. Either way things are looking a little less than hopeful.

P*ssing Away The West

25 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by perrinlovett in Legal/Political Columns, News and Notes

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"Refugees", America, Christendom, Christians, civilization, culture, Europe, government, insanity, The People, The West

Two stories this evening highlight the sunset of Western Civilization as we know it.

The first, literally in keeping with my *-sanitized title, comes from Europe. Ulm Minster is the world’s tallest church. It’s located in Ulm, Germany. Germany is in Europe. Follow, now. Europe is (was) the heart of Christendom. It is or was the heart of the West.

Now the great church is in peril; it’s base walls are being eaten away by the acid in human urine. Drunken idiots in Ulm have found the Ulm-timate way to symbolically bid farewell to their culture. After drinking and partying binges they use the church as a toilet. Fitting.

But now officials responsible for its upkeep say the stone base of the Gothic tower, which has long acted as a lightning rod to late-night revelers looking to relieve themselves, is being eroded by salt and acids in the urine, Südwest Presse reports.

“Wildpinkler,” as al fresco micturition is known in Germany, has become such a problem that earlier this year the city doubled fines to 100 euros ($109) for anyone caught in the act.

“I’ve been keeping an eye on it for half a year now and, once again, it’s coated with urine and vomit,” Michael Hilbert, the building’s head of maintenance, told Südwest Presse. “This is about preserving law and order.”

You’re nation, your continent and your whole way of life is being routed by invasion and all you can do is coat a church in urine and vomit. What the Taliban does with tanks and artillery, these fools are doing with pee. Almost makes one want to pull for the other side. Whatever else they might be, the Mohammedans are a proud people. And they’re coming on, incentivized by a horde of treasonous politicians and other enablers.

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If this is it, then there ain’t much to lose. Buzz Feed.

They have only met resistance (yet) in a scant few locales. Waterford, MI is now among those places. The Township just voted unanimously to reject “refugees” under the failed and corrupt Federal Invasion Force Resettlement Act of 1980.

RESOLUTION TO SECURE THE TOWNSHIPS OF OAKLAND COUNTY AND PROTECT THEIR RESIDENTS FROM THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF THE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM

WHEREAS: Refugees are placed in Michigan through the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program, a federal taxpayer funded program that contracts with vendor agencies to coordinate placements and welfare benefits for refugee families coming into our country, and

WHEREAS: State records show that federal vendors operating in Michigan have requested a total of at least 4060 refugees be settled into Michigan in FY 2016, and

WHEREAS: President Barack Obama has called for the resettling of at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States this fiscal year, and

WHEREAS: Federal vendors have, thus far this fiscal year, resettled more Syrian refugees in Michigan than any other state; Oakland County is a focus area for resettlement; and the arrival numbers are expected to surge dramatically given the federal vendors’ preparations, and

WHEREAS: The FBI and other homeland security agencies have testified before Congress that refugees from failed states such as Syria cannot be adequately vetted to ensure that they do not have terrorist ties because the necessary records do not exist, and

WHEREAS: Intelligence officials have testified before Congress that terrorists are seeking to use the program to enter the United States, and

WHEREAS: Federal immigration law requires that local governments be consulted prior to placement of refugees in their communities and that they be involved in defining their local capacity for refugee placements, and

WHEREAS: Federal reports indicate that there continue to be major gaps in communication between federal vendors and local governments and schools prior to the placement of refugees, and

WHEREAS: The Refugee Resettlement process creates significant unfunded financial burdens for receiving states, counties and local communities to provide public assistance to meet refugee needs for schools, law enforcement, housing and health care, etc., and

WHEREAS: There is pending federal and state legislation to reform the Refugee Resettlement Program requiring federal vendors to operate with more transparency, to more fully involve local governments in placement decisions, and to report to the state police all situations which could be related to security risks or human trafficking events,

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Charter Township of Waterford will not actively participate in the Refugee Resettlement Program until the Program has been significantly reformed, and until it has been demonstrated that the Townships of Oakland County have the capacity to absorb refugees without diverting funds from needy residents or exposing their residents to unwarranted security risks.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be provided to all elected county, state and federal officials representing the Charter Township of Waterford.
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At least some Westerners still have a modicum of sense left.

There are detractors. Local idiot and probable self-hating white man Scott Hancock said, “I’ve lived here my entire life. I’ve never been embarrassed to be a Waterford citizen until I saw this resolution.” Out of 72,000 residents there has to be at least one.

Good for Scott for wanting to bring down what remains of his society. He doesn’t have to rely on the shameful city council to help. He can do it himself. All he needs to do is contact “Catholic” Social Services or some other “religious” charity tied to the invasi … resettlement effort and offer his own home and money for the cause.

While his new roommates are hacking him to death I’m sure at least a few of his deluded friends could enjoy a little eastern ethnic food and culture. Then they could get drunk and go vomit on a church.

Great nations and cultures always collapse from within not from without. It’s not “us” versus “them”. Some of us are much worse than most of them. I guess it’s them and them against us. But, who are we? The time to decide has come.

The New York Times Admits The Failures Of Gun Control

25 Tuesday Oct 2016

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America, crime, firearms, gun control, law, murder, New York Times, Second Amendment

This one must have been hard for them to write but Sharon LaFraniere and Emily Palmer did it anyway. The Times examined (pretty extensively) 130 shooting from 2015, all of which involved four or more victims. They found:

Still, an examination of high-casualty shootings emphasizes not only how porous existing firearms regulations are, but also how difficult tightening them in a meaningful way may be.

The New York Times examined all 130 shootings last year in which four or more people were shot, at least one fatally, and investigators identified at least one attacker. The cases range from drug-related shootouts to domestic killings that wiped out entire families to chance encounters that took harrowing wrong turns.

They afford a panoramic view of some of the gun control debate’s fundamental issues: whether background checks and curbs on assault weapons limit violence; whether the proliferation of open-carry practices and rules allowing guns on college campuses is a spark to violence; whether it is too easy for dangerously mentally ill or violent people to get guns.

The findings are dispiriting to anyone hoping for simple legislative fixes to gun violence. In more than half the 130 cases, at least one assailant was already barred by federal law from having a weapon, usually because of a felony conviction, but nonetheless acquired a gun. Including those who lacked the required state or local permits, 64 percent of the shootings involved at least one attacker who violated an existing gun law.

Of the remaining assailants, 40 percent had never had a serious run-in with the law and probably could have bought a gun even in states with the strictest firearm controls. Typically those were men who killed their families and then themselves.

Only 14 shootings involved assault rifles, illustrating their outsize role in the gun debate. Nearly every other assailant used a handgun. That is in line with a federal study that concluded that reviving a 1994 ban on assault weapons and ammunition feeding devices that hold more than 10 rounds would have a minimal impact, at best, on gun violence.

No, you can’t legislate morality. Every murder and violent crime in 2015 occurred in a jurisdiction that explicitly bans murder and violent crime. That people prone to violate these long-standing, somewhat universal laws also violate existing gun control laws is not unexpected. They would violate any such laws. And, even if the Second Amendment was undone and all guns were magically spirited away, these criminals would find other weapons. ISIS has made a study of that alternative choosing.

The writers ended the piece with the worn “wild west” analogy for increased armed vigilance against crime; they quoted the father of a victim: “he shudders to think what would have happened had other [would be victims] been armed that night. ‘Are you kidding me?’ he said. ‘It would have been like the O.K. Corral.'”

That man was understandably distressed. But his logic doesn’t hold. Herein lies the weakness in this otherwise good Times story. It’s the same weakness that plagues all liberal attempts to either ban what is already banned or to make sense of any shooting scenario. They simply cannot see any other parts of the equation except for victims and criminals. They completely overlook armed non-victims who fight back with success.

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And then there’s protection against institutional criminality. Divine Freedom Radio.

Some of the same people who push gun control to keep us safe from guns push(ed) air bags to keep us safe from auto accidents. Both positions are somewhat comprehensible even if they disallow free choices. Air bags kill a certain number of people every year. However, they save many more lives than they take. It is the exact same thing with guns. Twenty thousand or so deaths are attributable to guns each year via homicides, suicides and accidents. Yet guns save a million or more lives every year.

I haven’t run the numbers but it strikes me that the guns / airbags death ratios may be very close percentage wise. Yet the while the liberals promoted and mandated the bags they fight against the guns. Something in the logic fails to make sense. Hoplophobia explains perhaps.

Societies have attempted to legislate murder away for as long as societies have existed. The fact that most people do not commit murder speaks less to the laws than to the fact that most people are not murders. Still, as they say, complete morality cannot be legislated. Thus, the rest of us, who are morally responsible, must take precautions against those who are not. Today, in America, precaution looks a lot like a gun.

Spaces of Communism

25 Tuesday Oct 2016

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America, college, communism, SJW, students, stupidity

America the stupid. Yesterday’s rather popular piece on Yoga Pants highlighted the efforts of fat women to kill the First Amendment. Today’s news of the all-too-common comes from a people and from a place where one would expect it – UC Berkeley:

Left-wing students at the University of California, Berkeley are protesting again. This time, however, these students are calling for “safe spaces” for transgendered people, as well as “spaces of color” at the University (which they already have).

The protesters are also harassing white students trying to study, barring their path across a key bridge while allowing students of color safe passage.

The protest, which began last Friday, blocked Berkeley’s Sather Gate, disrupted studying students in the Student Union, and blocked traffic at the intersection of Telegraph and Bancroft in front of campus.

The gaggle of neo-hippies, queers, commies, and color-mongers also attempted to close the campus bookstore because it allegedly turns a profit. Typical. Whites and capitalists are public enemies number one and three. (I am surprised they left number two alone. Were there no churches to burn?)

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Australian News Commentary.

This sad story and the blocking of the bridge vaguely recalled to my mind a legend of UGA lore. That of “Pistol Pete,” a backwoods student (white, male, and presumably evil). He attempted to illicitly pass the North Campus Arch. A small group of hecklers and busybodies then set upon him. Guess why they called him “Pistol” Pete? But Athens isn’t Berkeley. Or wasn’t.

I pity the bridge-blocking leftist kids. Maybe they will finally find spaces sufficiently safe from the real world. Maybe they’ll grow up. Perhaps a lobotomist could assist.

In the meantime if you’re a student at Berkeley and you happen to be white, male, straight, Christian, and have an IQ over 70, consider a transfer.

#Hot Pants Matter

24 Monday Oct 2016

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America, SJW, society, women, yoga pants

The first news item that caught my attention today was a piece on the declining readability of the internet. It turns out the authors are concerned about font ratios literally making pages unreadable. I though it was about the slowing induced by all the ads. Noticed that? My speed and machines are excellent yet I feel like I’m running in 1998. Maddening.

Then there’s the ridiculous growth of all things social justice on-line. I’ve noticed Facebook has become a non-stop outrage fest. I can’t complain there as I constantly pollute the news feed with stories like this (and thanks for clicking!). SJ is all over the news sites. Everyone is upset about something. Everything is a micro-aggression. Someone, somewhere really needs a good shaming. Like this:

An army of women in yoga pants marched on a man’s house after he was critical of yoga pants. Yoga Pants Matter!

BARRINGTON, R.I. — The saga began Wednesday with a letter to the editor in a local Rhode Island newspaper criticizing women over 20 who wear yoga pants in public. Quickly, it snowballed into a “Yoga Pants Parade” Sunday afternoon with hundreds of people walking past the letter writer’s house — and a few death threats, according to the author, who said he had only intended satire.

“To all yoga pant wearers, I struggle with my own physicality as I age,” wrote Alan Sorrentino, 63, in the letter published by the Barrington Times last week. “I don’t want to struggle with yours.”

The letter, which said adult women wearing yoga pants in public was comparable to men wearing Speedos to the grocery store, went viral. The backlash was immediate, passionate, and international.

It was supposed to be funny, Sorrentino said, because what kind of “tormented, uptight individual” could possibly care enough about yoga pants to write such a letter?

“It was in the face of all this political stuff, with all these really important issues going on, and then there’s this letter about yoga pants,” he said.

A crowd that included young girls and older women met in front of the Hampden Meadows School about 2 p.m., wearing a colorful array of yoga pants — although, as many attendees stated, the event was about more than just yoga pants.

“I don’t get involved in much in the way of protests and marches and all of that, but this just brought me out because the guy’s letter was offensive,” said Ellen Taylor at the parade, who sported a neon yellow shirt with the words “ ‘MATURE OLDER WOMAN’ in yoga pants” written on it.

“It’s OK if you’re 20 and gorgeous to wear yoga pants, but don’t do it if you’re older and lumpy and bumpy?” she asked.

Let me answer that last question: “Yes, 20 and hot is what we’re after with yoga pants.”

There. Have a nice night.

Seriously, it’s a free country (kind of, maybe). Anyone can wear yoga pants in public. Even those who perhaps shouldn’t. It’s a taste thing.

Really, I’m all for girl power or whatever would drive a middle-aged woman to the grocery store in gym clothes. They do beat pajamas. I get it – free country.

I also get free speech. People are supposed to write letters to editors. That free expression thing. Writing a reply would be a good counter move. Assembling a host of marchers and targeting the man’s house was a bit much. I wouldn’t say it had a chilling effect on free speech; maybe more of a sickening effect? The death threats, while not likely very serious, were downright criminal.

Then again, nothing is off the table for the SJW set, spandex-clad or not. Man with bad ideas (no matter how good) MUST be punished.

Yoga pants. Halloween costumes. Comments about the workplace. Comments about the lack of a workplace. No comments. Anything goes – so long as it’s really not that important. I wonder if any of these yoga pants warrior women have ever considered that:

The country is in tatters;

People are killing free speech;

People are killing each other;

We’re $20 Trillion plus in debt;

There are multiple wars raging;

D.C. wants nuclear war with Russia;

Veterans are being robbed by Washington crooks;

There’s (another) rigged election show underway;

The West is being overrun by terrorists;

Football ain’t what it once was.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and no. Yoga pants. A march over a letter. ‘Merica. Social Justice.

I’m reading SJWs Always Lie by Vox Day right now. If you’ve ever had a run-in with the PC thought police nuts, you might want to get a copy. I’m still a little fuzzy on what GamerGate was but I do understand they handed it to the SJW crowd. Bravo.

In closing I’d like to make my own personal yoga pants plea. Yoga pants should only be worn by older, lumpy, hefty women. Young, hot, fit, college-age girls should never wear them. Now, sorority girls, if you would like to stage an appropriate protest, we can make arrangements…

Dawn of the Ice Age?

22 Saturday Oct 2016

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Let’s hope so.

While demented communists propose taxing us into poverty, then out of existence, over their global warming hoax, real scientists predict a 97% chance of a new ice age starting in around 6 years.

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Washington, D.C., 2042 A.D. PBS.

I’m all for it. To stay warm, we of the ice set can burn politicians, banksters, and climate hoaxers.

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Now, I’m off for a little “get with Jesus” meeting with my heavy bag stand-ins. Then! It’s the great Fall Festival at Top Shelf Cigars. Perdomo, Ashton, Gurkha and Olivia reps and much more. I may have pictures. Drop by, if you can.

Higher Problems, Lower Education

19 Wednesday Oct 2016

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America, college, culture, debt, education, lies, students

The following story came across my LinkedIn feed: The Biggest Crisis in Higher Ed Isn’t Student Debt, It’s Students Who Don’t Graduate. It’s an op-ed by Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University.

There is a lot of talk these days about student debt and the challenges that families face managing this burden. Rightfully so, particularly at a time when too many families are struggling with flat wages and rising costs. But the discussion of a debt crisis often fails to address what I would argue is the greater crisis: the fact that more than half of those who start college fail to finish.

Think about it: Tens of millions of people in the US are saddled with student debt and have no degree to help pay it off. They won’t get the substantial return on their investment—graduates with a bachelor’s degree earn about $1 million more in additional income over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma—and they typically have not developed the adaptive learning skills that will help them prosper in a rapidly changing economy.

In too many cases, they may never recover, leaving them feeling frustrated and bitter, disenfranchised and unable to find a way to better jobs and greater opportunity. Too many, saddled with debt and lacking a degree, feel trapped.

According to US Department of Education data, the ability to repay college loans depends more on whether a student graduated than on how much debt they are carrying. The research also found that students who don’t graduate are three times more likely to default on their loans than those who do.

Adding to this sobering picture is the reality that only 15 percent of the bottom half of the US population (based on family income) have earned a college degree and only 9 percent among the bottom quarter. At a time when the majority of new jobs require post-secondary education, this is a national shame. Not only does it limit individual socioeconomic advancement, it minimizes the country’s capacity to make the most of talent that exists at every level and in every neighborhood.

This completion crisis is alarming, but it is fixable.

First, the $1 Million more in salary is a myth. James Altucher, among others, blew that to pieces. If you have kids looking at college, don’t let them be deluded. The myth was partly true a long time ago. It no longer makes any sense.

Even less sense is made from the unGodly debts students pile up in pursuit of an education that really isn’t. There’s a profound reason why the debt is such a concern. It isn’t worth it. College isn’t worth the money.

And those who drop out without finishing their degrees testify to the lack of value. Why stay for something with a low or non-existent return on investment? Why go so deeply in debt for it.

So, these problems are inter-connected and they are all worth considering; they are important. But I disagree with Crow on the graduation rate itself being the main problem.

His solution at ASU is a program that partners corporate employers with schools to cover costs and facilitate continued enrollment. I see that as a scheme to keep more students paying. Yes, more will graduate. But what do they get for their efforts?

By and large, college education in America is a hoax. Colleges long ago threw academic standards and actual learning under the school bus. Now the schools wage a war on men. Students are told that “to me a man” is terrible. They’re told manly fitness is toxic. There’s a war on European-Americans too. Students are told that just to be white is to be racist.

This isn’t education. This is bullsh!t. It’s indoctrination into a failed and useless culture of wimps and communists. Who needs it? Who needs four years of it? Who needs $200,000 in debt for it?

Outside of a few technical and professional fields, there is simply no valid reason to waste time pursuing the college experience. It’s an empty experience where most learning is self-induced and incidental. Real, liberal, classical education is easily obtained via independent study.

And college, the industry’s money-based lies aside, is not for everyone. Maybe 10% should be in higher education. Those who seek honest academic progress should only go if they can go for free or next to free. Even the best education isn’t worth a penny of debt.

Colleges and universities sell a product that most cannot afford and do not need. And the prospective customers are far better off without the debased social justice warrior lunacy. like this:

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WTH?? Worse than worthless. ImageFlip.

From an institutional perspective I suppose declining graduation rates would be second in concern only to decreasing overall enrollment. Both mean less money for the schools. The problem for the rest of us is that those schools now peddle expensive dribble that hurts the culture and crushes the individual soul. They are the drug dealers of the Ivory Tower.

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