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Tuesday, February 14. 2012Tuesday morning linksDon’t Be Dissin’ the Bohr Model! It's only fair. At least on Valentine's Day. Yankee Doodle, keep it up. The White Male Shortage on Campus The campi have been feminized Are Liberal Arts Colleges Becoming Finishing Schools for Women? Shocker: dirty electric cars Worse than gasoline cars Writing about Attraction to Professors Gets Oakland U. Student Suspended What's wrong with love? Brooks: The Materialist Fallacy Brooks' naivete is usually depressing for me. He needs to spend a month on the streets of Waterville, Maine (no, not in the pot smoke-infused glades of the Colby campus) if he wants to get it. Academics cannot inform him. He needs to chat with the single 22 year-old chickie with a nose ring and tats, on disability for ADD and substance abuse, with three out-of-control kids, with an entrepreneur brother who has a meth lab, a Dad in jail, and an obese 42 year-old mother on "disability" with a "bad back." This is a choice of "life-style" that even Murray cannot comprehend. "Free To Be You and Me." People "find themselves" in different ways...and these folks have "social capital" - just not the sort Murray and Brooks have. They know how to survive, how to have fun, and how to work the system to their advantage. Barack’s Smug Assault on Freedom of Religion Isn’t Just Anti-American—It’s Unforgivable Fortuño's Plan to Energize Puerto Rico MacDonald: California’s Demographic Revolution - If the upward mobility of the impending Hispanic majority doesn’t improve, the state’s economic future is in peril. Kimball: Limited Government, Religious Liberty, and Joe Biden’s Rosary:
'Takers' overtake 'makers,' threatening American self-reliance Obama hikes subsidy to wealthy electric car buyers Why, if they are more polluting than gas cars? Because it's another subsidy to the unions via GM. Young women are making more than men George Will: Catholic bishops got what they deserved Commentary: The President’s “Accommodation” "Chavez also will likely use a bonanza of public spending as he seeks re-election in the Oct. 7 presidential election" Syria, Iran, and the risks of tactical geopolitics Moody's just went apeshit on Europe Democrat Schakowsky: No Americans Actually Follow Their Christian Faith That's an argument for government control of churches? Christianity 101, Mrs. S: We are all sinners, and we all disappoint God (and ourselves) with our choices and our thoughts. Otherwise, no need for salvation. I think she is an idiot.
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From the shortage of white males on campus, here is his description of feminized teaching. See if you can spot the similarity to a certain climate science controversy.
QUOTE: By contrast, the feminine approach will stress social etiquette--woe to those who interrupts the speaker with, "there's no hard evidence for that, so let's move on." And unlike a male-dominated discussion, everyone, regardless of background and expertise, is permitted to "share" their views and then is thanked for sharing. Consensus-building is central and those rejecting harmony will be castigated as disruptive. Personal relationship often shape discussions--one never disputes friends even if one sharply disagrees and being attacked, no matter how mild, can destroy a friendship. Needless to say, everybody taking a turn to speak can make for long, rambling meetings. Also, in the shortage of males on campus, the author worries about successful alumni donating when the males, who concentrate in wealth generating majors, are made to feel unwelcome.
He misses the real danger to the "university" from this development. It's not that they won't donate, it is that white, hetero males made unwelcome on campus will be a huge pool of students for online education. Quick question, between the male and female mind, which flourishes in an independent, objective, argumentative field that lends itself to objective testing? Which are the courses most likely to be the first offered online? Read Megan McArdle's 'Envisioning a Post-Campus America' in The Atlantic (Feb 13). She doesn't paint a bright future for the old alma mater. Gosh, If they had teachers like that in school, I'd have paid more attention...
The Catholic bishops are getting what they deserve according to George Will? I agree. So will the doctors at my HMO, Kaiser Permanente, when ObamaCare makes the practice of medicine intolerable to them because of constant bureaucratic meddling and endless rule making. That's what I told my primary care physician the last time I saw him: Kaiser was a big supporter of ObamaCare, and you're gonna get what you deserve from allowing Kaiser to offer up that support.
Kaiser probably did that because they think they are part of what Thomas Sowell calls "The annointed". They are under the impression they get to help make the rules.
Next time you see them, show them this explanation of socialized medicine by Milton Friedman.
Be sure to highlight what says happens to the government funding at time 3:50 Watched the whole video. It's from 1978! MF (the Other MF, I mean) certainly understood how people behave as economic entities/agents. The warnings---or predictions---at the end of the video, issued by a prominent physician in Sweden, are something my doctor/s fail to appreciate.
1) Birth control is not a women's health issue. Women who conceive are healthy. If pregnancy risks a woman's health over and above the usual risks then it's a health issue, but such cases are rare.
2) The fact that most RCC women use BC is a matter between the RCC and their female parishioners. The government wants to make it a matter between the RCC, the women and the government. If you read the founders of this country's opinion on the matter you'll see that the structure of the First Amendment was intended to protect the Church from State interference as much as it was to protect the State from Church interference. This seems to me to be a prime example. Also, remember that we are talking about employees of the Roman Catholic Church. These are not street people. They have jobs. They can afford to fund their own contraception.
"[s]Chavez[/s] Obama also will likely use a bonanza of public spending as he seeks re-election in the [s]Oct. 7[/s] Nov. 6th presidential election"
Fixed it! "Chavez Obama also will likely use a bonanza of public spending as he seeks re-election in the Oct. 7 Nov. 6th presidential election"
There, now I really did fix it! |
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