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I hate it when teachers complain about not getting paid enough. Do you hear the guy at the 7-11 complain about his pay? How about the folks at Hardee’s? Hy-Vee?
Nope. And all these people get paid a lot less than teachers for working many, many more hours.
Teachers love to ask for more pay. It’s for [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: College, Education, high school, school funding, Tarkio, teachers | 3 Comments »
If you’re just searching around, fighting vainly the old ennui, take a look at the best conservative blogs on the planet. They’ve been no end of help in getting me started here. Kindred spirits all.
Naturally, we’re changing the world here.
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I see these bumper stickers fairly often around WashU. Odd, since this is a place that simply despises religion.
But I’ve got a few problems with these things.
First of all, I can’t remember the last time a Christian saddled up, guns blazing, and rode into the local Chabad and laid waste to all within because [...]
Filed under: conservative, religion | Tagged: Campus Diversity, coexist, diversity, God, islam, peace, religion, washington university | 3 Comments »
I’ve been busy looking for the root causes of happiness.
So far, I’ve got baseball, flying, and as few trees as possible. Comfy tennis shoes. Rascal Flatts. Macaroni Grill and Starbucks. And, naturally, Diet Dew.
I’m not sure that this really cuts it. Although it might get close.
Coming soon: how friendship plays into happiness.
Where does friendship come [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: College, diet dew, friendship, Happiness, rascal flatts | No Comments »
I once took a class taught by a philosopher. It was entitled “Early Western History,” which was a damn dirty bit of untruth in advertising. Early Western History is hardly the exclusive story of philosophers.
But my main gripe with the philosopher is that he tore down everything I find holy and good in the world. [...]
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I’ve been getting a lot of flak recently for a post in which I argue for conservatism using tradition. People just hate that I apply to such a despicable thing as tradition in arguing for my values. Honestly, can’t you come up with anything better?
Differences between hardcore liberals and hardcore conservatives boil down to individual [...]
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I often argue that college simply isn’t for everyone. I’ll enumerate my reasons later, but before I do I’d like to give a pointed vignette about innumeracy.
I went into a gas station last night. I have a diet dew addiction, and diet dew is served on tap at this particular gas station. I usually prefer [...]
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So we’ve established that for believers, God explains a part of life that is seemingly contrary to the human ideal, i.e. unfairness. For believers, God settles the accounts in the end, because life as we know it is but a small part of our total existence.
For atheists, the job of squaring accounts is settled by [...]
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I got into a knock-down, drag-out with an atheist liberal over his accusation that conservatives tend to believe in God because they do not think critically for themselves.
But he’s got the direction of causality all wrong. Believers are conservatives because of their belief, ceteris paribus. Not the other way around. It’s because a particularity of [...]
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In which I define liberalism for a liberal:
Ben:
We are not discussing things like driving on the right side of the road. We are discussing political issues and values.
Also, you seem to be mistaking liberalism for anarchy.
Throughout the years, conservatism has endorsed things like slavery, segregation, homophobia, and prayer in school. It’s an aggressive, oppressive version [...]
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