Every six months I have a meeting with the boys to discuss personal hygiene. Did we forget anything?… Read the rest
A Question About the Lenten Fast
Suppose a person had given up BOURBON for Lent, and after many long, hard, painful days of fasting desired a WHISKEY. Would this constitute breaking the fast?
A certain person who is NOT a bourbon OR whiskey drinker thinks so, going so far as to say such extreme things as “that’s cheating”, while another person who is on intimate terms with both says ‘no, it is a totally different thing’, given that the principle of non-contradiction tells us that a thing cannot ‘be’ and ‘not be’ at the same time, and while it could be argued that bourbon is (Kentucky) whiskey, whiskey is definitely not bourbon. Does everyone agree?… Read the rest
What Can We Learn from the Worsening of the ‘Queen Bee’ Syndrome
From the University of AZ: women are more rude to women than they are to men, and more rude than men are to women, or to men.
Why should men try to understand women when women, who understand women, despise one another?
https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/incivility-work-queen-bee-syndrome-getting-worse… Read the rest
If We Can’t Trust Them With Guns, Why Trust Them With Votes?
The latest irrational response to the shooting in Florida is a proposal to ban possession of rifles by those under 21.
If we are truly concerned with the threat posed by the young and stupid, why do we allow them to vote?… Read the rest
Government Schools: The Place You Send Your Children When You Hate Them
I always laugh when people ask me about the ‘socialization’ of our homeschooled children. Compared to what? The illiterate, debauched, statist-serving, entitled brainwashed zombies produced by government schools?
The correlation between public school environments and the deteriorating mental health of children has been intensifying for decades. We ought to consider how these settings serve as incubators for the social alienation that can fuel such horrors.
First, consider how common it is for a public high school today to house thousands of teenagers for most of their waking hours for four solid years. (More than 3,000 students attend the Florida school where the most recent shooting took place.) During their time in that maze, kids learn to “socialize,” basically by finding their place in a school’s hierarchy of cliques.
This sort of pecking order dynamic tends to breed resentment, status anxiety, and social dysfunction. Combine that with the toxic effects of social media and family breakdown, and you’ve got a deadly brew. Public schooling is increasingly unhealthy for kids’ emotional stability. Let us count the ways.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/02/21/13-ways-public-schools-incubate-mental-instability-kids… Read the rest