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Based on the chart below, I’m thinking FULL, but I’m no expert.
All suggestions are welcome.
Category: Politics
Trying not to start the public floggings
So Much For The Ivory Tower
As universities all over the Western world start to sputter and fail because of funding shortages and bloated, costly bureaucracies, here’s an interesting take:
Universities’ response to the cash crisis reveals their deeper crisis of purpose. Up to 10,000 university jobs are reported to have been cut this year. Yet diversity, equity and inclusion teams seem to have been largely spared the axe. Instead, universities are cutting core academic disciplines. The University of Kent has closed its philosophy department, while Canterbury Christ Church University will no longer teach English literature – a university spokesperson described the course as ‘no longer viable in the current climate’.
Once, it would have been unthinkable for a university not to offer degrees in major branches of learning, such as literature or philosophy. These subjects were taught not because ‘the market’ made them ‘viable’, but because they contributed to our understanding of the word and what it means to be human. That they can now be so readily discarded speaks to an impoverished intellectual climate that universities themselves have helped to create.
Note the emphasized sentence.
What it shows to me is that the so-called intellectual rigor of the ivory tower has faded, if not disappeared altogether. (I know, I know: “Wake up, Kim, it’s been going on for decades!” )
As long as universities continue to be regarded as simply an adjunct to the marketplace — i.e. providing certification for careers — then of course the “thoughtful” classes such as philosophy or Shakespeare are going to suffer. (Of course, certification is probably critical for careers such as engineering, medicine and the hard sciences, less so for law and suchlike.)
Why one would need a B.A. to be a personal assistant or office receptionist, of course, simply underlines the fact that the high school diploma has ceased to be any kind of qualification whatsoever.
And universities are becoming equally useless. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of Gramscian Marxists.
Overkill
And then there’s this:
To be brutally honest, a high-capacity magazine ban is kinda pointless when you consider that one only needs a single bullet to commit suicide.
But that only goes to show that apart from being a loathsome, shameless opportunist, this Marxist bitch also proves that there’s absolutely no depth that Gun Control Inc. will not stoop to in order to push their foul agenda.
Bastards.
It’s Worse Than That
In a good post about the latest filth to emanate from the Biden cabal (wholesale pardon of murderers from facing the federal chop), Hugh Hewitt writes:
We will remember “37 out of 40,” and biographers and presidential historians will long note and long record and elaborate on this abuse of power, along with the pardon of Hunter Biden, and all the other outrageous abuses of power. The people around our apparently incapacitated president don’t care at all what history will declare about Biden. Their indifference is purposeful. It’s a display of shamelessness.
They “don’t care at all what history will declare about Biden” because in times to come, the Marxists and their lickspittle historians will just whitewash events or cause this entire shameful episode to disappear from our history. Remember, Oceania has always been at war with EastAsia, the chocolate ration has always been 5 grams per person, and shame is an unknown emotion to the Left.
AWOL
It’s bad enough that FJB was a drooling idiot for what seems like his entire presidency, but when it’s one of our Texas gals… WTF is going on in Washington?
Rep. Kay Granger, the first Republican woman to represent a Texas district in the U.S. House of Representatives, has been found in a nursing home that specializes in memory care after having been missing from Congress for about six months.
Granger, 81, who was first elected to the House in 1996, and before that was the mayor of Fort Worth, has not cast a vote in Washington since July. Her absence had generated concern in her district, which is the Dallas-Ft. Worth metropolitan area, according to the New York Post.
She was found when a reporter at The Dallas Express got a tip that she had been staying at a memory care facility after being found wandering through her neighborhood while seemingly lost and confused.
FFS, and we could have elected someone errr fresher toot sweet if we’d learned about this back in July…
Somebody in the Republican party — Texas or Washington D.C. — needs to get their ass severely kicked, and it’s not Kay Granger.
Bad Dads, BAD Dads
Apparently, CNN (who? I dunno, never heard of them either) seems to have a problem with Dads buying their kids guns for Christmas:
CNN began the article with a story of an Oregon dad, Paul Kemp, who bought a hunting rifle for his son, Nathan, when he turned 16 years old. Nathan had been hunting with his dad since he was 7 years old.
CNN then stated, “Parents looking to purchase a firearm for their child for the holidays have to balance their hopes for the gift with the risks that come with such a purchase, such as an accidental shooting, suicide or the gun being used in a crime.”
In an attempt to bolster their position, CNN said, “For example, the teenage school shooting suspects in Oxford, Michigan, and Winder, Georgia, allegedly used firearms they had received as Christmas gifts from their parents, and those parents have faced criminal charges.”
I don’t want to get into dueling statistics here, but I just wonder how many deaths have been caused by teenagers getting into road accidents with cars given them by their parents?
Never mind; giving guns to our kids for Christmas is a tradition that goes back generations, as these few ads prove:
Of course, as the Left hates the very concepts of both tradition and the family with a passion, these would be seen as pure evil.
Me, I just wish we could see more of them, updated for today’s market.
And I absolutely love this one:
…because as any fule kno, every man should have owned at least one Mauser in his lifetime.