Category Archives: Academia and Other Nonsense

No, not me (at least not open carry, yet). Here is FIRE’s latest video on the subject of helping students get their First Amendments rights restored to talk about their Second Amendment rights.

The way I was taught, when you do something bad at school, you get punished. Apparently not in the Bronx NYC. Department of Education officials are investigating after students at a Bronx school claimed they were forced to clean toilets … Continue reading →

…oh, wait, this is from 1929. To be honest, I didn’t really learn anything past the most basic of Algebra until college (when I found a teacher who was able to open my understanding of it).  As an engineer who … Continue reading →

From ESPN: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushed a proposal Wednesday to bar men’s college basketball teams from postseason play if they fail to graduate 40 percent of their players, an idea that didn’t go over well with the … Continue reading →

I’m sure that is what the teacher’s unions will call this. Chicago’s Urban Prep Charter Academy has a mission — for its students to graduate and succeed in college. Now, for the first graduating class at the high school, it’s … Continue reading →

I just got home from taking my Algebra quarter final. 94.67% for the quarter. My Geography final will be the day after tomorrow. I’m currently running just under 90% in that class for the quarter. I said when I started … Continue reading →

I’ve figured out why the Dept. of Education needs to buy these new short barreled shotguns. They’re racist potential terrorists who need to have the Dept. of Homeland Security keep an eye on them. I’m just using the MSM’s pale … Continue reading →

See, here’s what I was talking about. The same impulse that led a 3rd-grader to list the different types of bitches leads, in adulthood, to charting the different gradients/generations of warfare. Sadly, it’s not quite as easy to make an … Continue reading →

Did SPLC learn this from the Obama Administration’s “Jobs Saved or Created” accounting or was it the other way around. Robert Stacy McCain takes on the SPLC and their “new”, “expanded” list of “Hate Groups”. One of the ways they … Continue reading →

On populism & Democracy.  Offered without comment, mainly because I’m still digesting it