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Fixing “Converged” Colleges: Close Them

14 Wednesday Dec 2016

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college, education, SJW, Vox Day

“Converged” refers to the point where social justice warrior activity takes over as the primary focus of an institution. Many if not most Western Universities are now converged, having replaced education with SJW lunacy.

From UT in America to Oxford in England the trend is horrifying. Vox Day has the solution.

The more an institution converges towards the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice, the less it is able to perform its primary function.

From SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police:

The public schools can no longer educate, so people are turning to homeschooling. The universities can no longer provide liberal arts educations, so people are becoming technology-assisted autodidacts. The banks no longer loan, the state and local governments no longer provide basic public services, the military does not defend the borders, the newspapers no longer provide news, the television networks no longer entertain, and the corporations are increasingly unable to provide employment.

Even as the institutions have been invaded and coopted in the interests of social justice, they have been rendered unable to fulfill their primary functions. This is the great internal contradiction that the SJWs will never be able to positively resolve, just as the Soviet communists were never able to resolve the contradiction of socialist calculation that brought down their economy and their empire 69 years after Ludwig von Mises first pointed it out. One might call it the Impossibility of Social Justice Convergence; no man can serve two masters and no institution can effectively serve two different functions. The more an institution converges towards the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice, the less it is able to perform its primary function.

There is no point trying to debate about what the purpose of a university is any longer. The public should stop funding them, their assets should be seized and distributed to the public, and new institutions will rise up to take their place. Nothing of value will be lost in the process, because they’re already not educating anyone anyhow.

It’s fascinating to see how quickly allowing women to attend the elite universities destroyed an institution that was centuries old. One would think someone, somewhere, would eventually notice that the same pattern is playing out again, and again, and again in a wide variety of institutions, from the men’s clubs to the churches.

It’s not a radical solution. It’s a logical solution. If you blow out a car tire, you get rid of that tire. It has become useless for its intended purpose. So it is with the schools.

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Ben Garrison.

Young people will benefit dramatically from not having $200,000 in funny money student loan debts. Electronic alternatives are already taking over the new digital classrooms. And NCAA felon ball can be reorganized and privatized into a minor league of sorts for the NFL.

That dream is over. Wake up.

The Big Taste O’ Nica: The La Gloria Cubana Serie R Esteli

11 Sunday Dec 2016

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cigars, La Gloria Cubana, Nicaragua, Top Shelf Cigar Shoppe

Oh my. We have a winner here. Thank you to Gerald and Russell at the Top Shelf Cigar Shop for securing me my very own edition of this incredible stick.

My Puro is a Gordo-ish 6X64 beauty. It appears to be 100% Nicaraguan – filler, binder, and wrapper (Jalapa Sol). I think that wrapper is counted as natural. However it is a rich, deep brown and slightly oily. Have a look:

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She’s full-bodied but not at all overbearing. I at once got the earthy Nica-ness I love along with terrific hints of spice.

It’s a big stick and very tightly packed. In fact I thought I was going to have draw problems based on the density. None. At. All.

For such a large chunk of tobacco, it burns perfectly even and the draw is effortless. I was more than impressed. It’s my kind of big cigar – tons of rich, flavorful smoke with no work required (excluding this write-up).

The smoke is much like the woman pictured on the band: elegant but you probably wouldn’t want to underestimate her. This is a near perfect blend of the glory of Cuba and the sophisticated power of Esteli.

Bravo!

James Altucher on Day Work and Day Dreams

10 Saturday Dec 2016

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I’m having a case of news fatigue or, rather, bad news fatigue. Therefore, I’d like to present another of James Altucher’s excellent idea columns on doing what you love. Read all 10 of his points. Here’s one of them:

C) More choices

I grew up in a suburb of New York City. It was a middle class suburb.

Which means everyone was middle management in NYC and commuted every day to NYC. Everyone was a “VP of Sales” at an accounting firm.

Around age 50 they all had their first heart attacks. Then strokes. Then cancer. Then some dementia. Then death.

Now, we have choices. A friend of mine spent 20 years working for Wall Street as a graphic designer. Finally she quit.

Since then she’s been inundated on every social media site for requests to do work at some times triple the money.

Why? Because now she posts art and graphics that she makes out of love. She creates her day dreams, the ones she’s had since she was a little girl.

People see them and say, “I want that energy in my life!” and they offer her money to do it.

She also took out the middleman – headhunters, design agencies, HR people, bosses, etc.

Let’s say I want to publish a book. I can’t do it unless: agent, editorial assistant, editor, marketer, publisher, bookstore purchaser, all agree that the book should be published.

Unless I just write the book and upload it to Amazon.

In every industry now you have choices of how you can make more money.

How can you get started? Hold on…

D) All industries are dying

Nobody makes a “buggy” for a horse anymore. That skill set is no longer in demand.

Okay, that was one point and a preview of another. They’re all great. Here’s a link to his article on how to publish – a subject I’ve been known to dabble in.

There’s a lot of uncertainty especially in the job market. President-elect Trump looks like he’s actually going to bring back and keep many decent jobs in the U.S. – for now. However, times are changing. The robots are here and multiplying. The traditional work economy still looks rather bleak for the coming decades and beyond. Which happens to be a good thing. It will “move the cheese”, creating a crisis which brings new and better opportunities. No-one else gets that like Altucher.

I get Christmas ties. Here are … 2! of them! Both snowman themed.

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The big one on the right plays Jingle Bells. And I got it for a song at a discount store – I think it was $4. The quality is worth 4 bucks – will barely stay tied – but the song still plays after many years.

Happy Saturday!

Decorating The Tree With Santa

07 Wednesday Dec 2016

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Christmas ties, green space chickens, random babbling

I always forget something.

Tonight I forgot to qualify my last post in that I have nothing per se against California. I’ve been there and had a 100% fantastic time the whole time. Great state. It’s just the epicenter of the crazy movement right now. If the loons seriously want out of America or off planet Earth, fine. I would rather they take a rocket ship or a slow boat as opposed to the Golden State.

Anyway. I also forgot today’s Christmas tie:

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I was in the men’s department of a large store one December long ago. I was looking at Christmas ties, if you can believe it. Along came some friends. One of them bought me this gem of a tie as a present. Bless her.

And, bless you, Cali and all.

Friday’s Mickey Mouse Christmas Tie

02 Friday Dec 2016

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Been a little busy today so this is probably the extent of posting this evening. Not bad, huh?

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I picked up Donald, Mickey, and Pluto years back at a Christmas store (of all places) in scenic Helen, Georgia. Hope you enjoyed it!

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Are You Alert? Or Distracted?

01 Thursday Dec 2016

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Today Eric Peters ponders the fall of civilization via the hell on earth known otherwise as the self-driving car.

'That woke me up, too!'

Cartoon Stock.

GM’s SuperCruise is fitted with a bevy of bells and whistles that are supposed to rouse the asleep-at-the-wheel “driver” when it becomes necessary for him to … drive. If the “driver” doesn’t wake up – perhaps he is sleeping too soundly and fails to notice the bells and whistles – the car will automatically turn on its emergency blinkers and slow itself down.

This will probably not be much help if a split-second intervention becomes necessary. As, for example, when a self-driving Tesla drove itself broadside into a big rig that had unexpectedly turned in its path. Which the Tesla’s “driver” didn’t notice in time.

And there, as the saying goes, is the rub.

A driver either is – or he isn’t.

There is no in-between.

It is not a part-time job.

To whatever extent a car drives itself, the driver is necessarily less involved. Less is expected of him. He is encouraged to be passive, inattentive.

Some self-wrecking cars are already here. More are on the way. Will you be passive and inattentive? I guess most will.

On that subject, take this Quick Test to determine your level of alertness. Mine was so fast as to suggest theoretical impossibility.

James Altucher And A Christmas Tie

30 Wednesday Nov 2016

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James’s excellent article of the day is about combined what you love for a happier life. So, that is just what I did with this post.

James came up with The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Doing What You Love. It’s worth a read.

DO THIS: (I still do it)

– LIST EVERYTHING you were passionate about from ages 7–20. These aren’t your “true passions”.

That’s a made up phrase. These were simply the things you loved doing as a kid.

– COMBINE THEM. If you loved computers and movies, maybe you will write stories for virtual reality experiences.

If you loved art and being a reporter, call up all of your favorite artists and do a podcast.

…

There is no one true passion. There are just these basic guidelines:

Look to your past to discover your future.
You will do MANY things in your life. There is no “one” thing.
Combine combine combine.

…

I love easy filler links and Christmas ties. Thank you, James. Now, here’s my Garfield Special:

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It’s one of my oldest if not the oldest (following the loss of my “old” ties some years back).

Hope you enjoyed it. Night!

 

Thanksgiving 2016

24 Thursday Nov 2016

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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More Christmas ties may be coming later today…

Now, before you go enjoy this “holiday” classic:

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Tie De Jure

23 Wednesday Nov 2016

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Christmas neckwear 2016 continues.

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Almost forgot today. Simple, smiling Frosty. Technically I suppose this is or could double as a “winter” tie. It’s the thought that counts, right?

I may start a collage or something – ties of the week – so I don’t forget.

Anyway, happy Thanksgiving Eve, America. Cheers to the rest of the world.

Christmas Tie Season Rolls On!

21 Monday Nov 2016

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I made a short video about my new musical, light-up, Santa tie.

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Perrin Lovett / YouTube.

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Jingle all the way.

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