The Clamor For Student Debt Forgiveness

The Clamor For Student Debt Forgiveness

…is, as Stefan notes, a de-facto admission that college degrees are often not worth the investment. The relevant discussion starts at around 1:40, but, as usual, the whole damn show is well worth watching. It actually makes sense, and is a devastating argument. Sure, I’ve argued that college/university, outside of some technical fields, is no longer worth the investment – and of course been called anti-education for my pains despite said complainer knowing my wall full of books. As an aside, m…

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Identity Politics, Free Trade, and the Intolerant Minority

Identity Politics, Free Trade, and the Intolerant Minority

I have a lot of respect for David Horowitz. He’s a die hard convert from the communist left, has incisive insights, and unlike the neocon crowd was anything but #nevertrump, even calling out Bill Kristol in an article that was paraded as proof of Breitbart’s “anti-semitism” (without of course, reference to who actually wrote it…) That said, his idealism sometimes gets the better of him [http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/horowitz-identity-politics-are-anti-american] . I’m not going to post…

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Coffee

Coffee

RooshV just posted a video on how he makes coffee with an aeropress coffee maker at home. I heartily second that.First, some background. You may be familiar with the Aerobie [https://infogalactic.com/info/Aerobie], a flying ring that was for all intents and purposes a frisbee on steroids. Much slimmer, and you couldn’t do ski[-tricks with it (duh) but it could go ridiculously far. A cousin lost one in the ocean because he threw it into the offshore breeze, and with the combination of lift from…

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Country Folks Can Survive

Country Folks Can Survive

I know some of my friends (Hi Didact!) aren’t up for country, and frankly, most of my fondness for it lies in the older stuff I was raised with, and a lot of childhood exposure to ethnic folk songs. Charlie Daniels, Merle Haggard, Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash (hell yeah) and of course David Allen Coe (Never Even Called Me By My Name). Outside of a few odds and ends – Toby Keith and Joe Diffie – there’s very little country I care about after the 80’s, and everything aft…

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