You see the last three words in the title above? They seem to cause a huge portion of the population acute pain. The desperatopm varies, but I do not think that, among any million people, there is any limit to the extremes a considerable number of people will go rather than utter those three fatal words: “I was WRONG!”

So when I say it, please do not put my name in for the Martyr’s Prize.

I have no trouble with it at all.

When I gave LibAnon my standard Reaganite answer that the government must not interfere except where it pays for education, I forgot another standard Reaganite answer. They oppose affirmative action, saying it constitutes government interference. When it comes to the universities I support drastic affirmative action against the professor-priesthood.

So LibAnon is saying that I damned well know that is government interference and I agree with him. This quiet little conspiracy throughout the educational establishment must not just be ended, it must be REVERSED and PUNISHED. Everything a professor has is due us in reparations. Everything every foundation that has supported this destruction has is subject to due penalties, and what is “due” is HUGE.

Government action?

You betcha!

LibAnon says:

Your main point is that PC is an established religion and that professors comprise its priesthood. Aside from all of the usual problems with established religions, they happen to be illegal in this country. That is a brilliant insight, and I still agree with it. I believe that alone justifies what you were trying to do on Capitol Hill.
When I have trouble on this Blog, it’s usually when brilliant insights like these degenerate into garden-variety Reaganism. In this particular post, you seem to be lapsing into particularly vintage Reaganspeak, along the lines of “The State of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity.”
Yes, I do happen to be a liberal in that I don’t believe education is at all like a “product” that is sold to “consumers”, exactly like paper clips. But that’s not my point here. Instead, my point is that YOU are, in this particular post, wandering off the main point and getting into the liberal vs. conservative weeds. The ESSENTIAL point, I think, is that PC is a religion and for THAT reason, the taxpayers shouldn’t be funding it. “PC is a religion” is a mantra we can win with. “Education is like paper clips” is not.

Comment by LibAnon

MY REPLY:

The ONLY important thing here is that LibAnon is sticking to the POINT.

In a crisis, the ONLY important point is how does our cause win, not how goes the debate?

I was the one who saved the Space Telescope, so I certainly would be the last to be able to say that I opposed government’s paying to satisfying intellectual curiosity, though I am absolutely mystified as to what that has to do with social science.

NOT SPAM I guess my “Peak Oil” babble falls into this futurology category?

Comment by Simmons

MY REPLY:

Have mercy!

I have been listening to theories on the Ultimate Oil Crisis since 1972.

It used to be the left which combined the ruin of hte West with its hoggish desire for a high standard of living.

About my twentieth theory of Oil Crisis and Hoggish Desires I sort of fogged out on that. Let me get over the FY2K disaster, and I’ll get back to the oil ones.