Co-ed dorm rooms
The University of Chicago
is moving forward with co-ed dorm rooms. Libertarians will say, great, good that they let each decide their own lives. Conservatives will say, awful, that it encourages moral degradation in an environment where it's almost non-existent. However I think something else to consider is the powerplay that it represents, in that the 'rights' of the so-called 'transgendered' become so paramount that everything else gets pushed aside. College has become not only a sandbox for social engineering and experimentation, but also a proving ground for social-political warfare with competing groups angling hard to see how much they can 'get' in their four years. And with already established left-wing groups, the 'transgendered' get to see how far they can push the envelope. Society is sowing the seeds of its own divisions in its institutions of 'higher learning' and its most poignant lesson is hardball identity politics.`
Labels: campuses, college, homosexuals, leftists
My new group: LTPC
The "Love Thy Prisoner Campaign" made its debut at the Gay Pride Parade in Boston over the weekend.
People were asked to adopt a detainee, provide a home if they get released, help them with their 'religious needs' and be a friend, a pen pal.
James and I were told that we were "the most truly progressive people here..." and this was at the Boston Gay Pride rally, so, I think that puts us in strong running for the most progressive people in the world.
Fact sheet -
Signup sheetHopefully you can see where this is going...
Labels: activism, homosexuals, leftists, video
Public Intellectuals and academic warfare
Nearing the autumn of any iota of my own relevance on the topic of academic or college organizing issues, I ran across
a John Derbyshire article on the issue of who is and is not a "public intellectual." If there was a functioning conservative movement in this country, they should start by documenting, dissecting and deconstructing the scholarship of the most prominent left-wing intellectuals. I would add Barbara Ehrenreich and Eric Schlosser to this list, and perhaps the awful Tim White, but regardless there are more left-wing ones than Derbyshire was listing in 2004. As well, the conservative movement, if it still exists, ought to find a better way to really attack the scholarship of these individuals and fight them where it matters: in the battle of ideas.
Labels: academia, college, ideas, leftists
On Closing Gitmo
So the GOP told us that to close Gitmo would just put terrorists back out in the field. Looks like
they were right. The strange desire to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay stems, it seems, from a very misplaced notion to always embrace one's attackers. It's the basis of a certain left-wing desire to have pure tolerance, and even hidden admiration for, those who hate the West. The left (said as though this amorphous blob of intellectual thought is a coherent, consistent organism) may presume that this will then result in more terrorists being given a nice show trial like they watch on Law and Order. But in reality this will likely mean that a 'no-prisoners' policy will be in effect on the battlefield, a significantly worse outcome.
Labels: foreign policy, leftists, military, obama, policy
Thank you, Bernie Madoff!
Not only have you helped lay off employees at the world's largest abortionist: Planned Parenthood, but
you even managed to hurt the communists at the ACLU.
Labels: leftists
Math at the Nation
So,
Nation editor
Katrina vanden Heuvel isn't the prettiest girl east of the Mississippi, but apparently she's none too good at math either.
Her donation page at the Nation tells readers that since 20% of their support comes from associates, they'd be silent a third of the year if it weren't for the donations. And they wonder why Republicans think that they may not have the best grasp of Social Security reform, the tax code, and economics...
Labels: Katrina vanden Heuvel, leftists, math, nation
