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Chickenshit. Maybe if she would have stood her ground and told him, "Fuck off, redneck" he would've laughed and bought her a beer.
Oh, right, it's a woman, after all. At least I assume it's a woman. Can't tell these days.
From Wikipedia: "Midazolam, sold under the brand name Versed among others, is a benzodiazepine medication used for anesthesia and procedural sedation, and to treat severe agitation. It works by inducing sleepiness, decreasing anxiety, and causing a loss of ability to create new memories."
"Involuntary euthanasia" must be the stupidest, most evil euphemism for "murder" I have ever seen.
P.S. If the drug eliminates the ability to "create new memories" it would be the perfect drug to apply before raping or otherwise abusing victims.
Sure. By "we" I mean autodidacts. I taught myself how to read before going to Headstart. My mother just gave me access to books. I was also pretty extroverted as a kid--I was class clown in 2nd grade--until the public school system nearly bored the humor out of me. Luckily, I discovered LSD as a high school Freshman.
Maybe Tom Cruise has enough $ to attain Clear status. Leah Remini (sp?) bailed when she couldn't pony up any more cash.
The story of Scientology itself is pretty interesting. It's a massive fraud in which Enlightenment is promised, but only after you pay thousands of $ "progressing" through succeeding levels until you reach the exalted status of "Clear," which is presumed to be something like having a seat at the left hand of God.
You ought to hear the current state of college debates. This is rather dated, but I assume the "standards" remain the same: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-to-speak-gibberish-win-a-national-debate-title/
Parents who encourage their children to read as early as possible also indirectly encourage them to be autodidacts. We learn to like reading early on and enjoy spending lots of time alone doing it. Libraries become second homes and university libraries hearken back to the days when learning was restricted to monasteries and libraries were like cathedrals.
90% of my time spent pursuing an MA in English was in libraries.
I'm ready for the jokes about choosing English literature as a college major. I took my degree in '93, when the total capitulation of universities to critical social justice was not a fait accompli and I was assigned Friere in one course but was able to ignore it without consequence.
I cannot imagine why critical studies courses aren't being removed because of under-enrollment, unless colleges are including them as part of degree requirements.
I'd bet that the infestation of critical social justice concepts into the humanities--and now even the sciences--is a way to ensure against the removal of SocJus courses. It's being shoehorned in everywhere.
Anyone who can't subtract 39 from 60 in an instant probably shouldn't be tending bar.
More insult from someone who probably hasn't read the book.
I find it interesting that H.P. Lovecraft is popular with teenage boys and leftists. A shut-in paranoid created a formula that features the world menaced by "eldritch" monsters "from beyond time and space" who become agitated when some innocent bookish type stumbles upon the Necronomicon and naively unleashes the dread Cthulu and/or other evil entities with unpronounceable names.
Seems like a metaphor for contemporary leftist politics.
P.S.
Despite my dismissal of Lovecraft, I still really like "The Color out of Space," "Cool Air," "Innsmouth Clay," and "The Dunwich Horror" and will re-read any of these maybe once every other year.
"Terrified."
This is how the left deflects their critics and why they wear out the "phobe" suffix.
That level of formality is rather silly here, isn't it? It's not like the left--or much of anybody--is avidly reading KIA 2.
Riiiight. "Permanent" for as long as the Dementia Joe administration lasts.
Yes. He was a scholar, not merely a physicist. That's a line from the Gita, I believe.
No actual Hindu who takes the worldview seriously would complain in this way, in fact, probably would not complain at all. Films and politics are Maya. Now that I think on it a might, there's no better illustration of Maya than a motion picture.
And when did editors begin spelling "Bhagavad Gita" as "Bagwhad Geeta"?
Clearly those offended are nominally Hindu much like the Cafeteria Catholic--superficial involvement out of social convention with no real insight.
It's been difficult grappling with what's happened to higher ed since I retired from college teaching at the height of TDS. Though I never could get on the tenure track because I couldn't lie well enough to write a convincing diversity statement, I had been left alone to teach as I saw fit, never seriously considering the cultural and political impact of critical studies until the situation reached a boiling point, when my colleagues went apeshit with Trump's election in 2016 and the administration expanded and "reaffirmed its commitment to equity," including some of the usual horseshit about diversity. The mission statement--revised in reaction to Trump's election--was laughable, in one sentence "reaffirming the commitment to equity and diversity" and "acknowledging the importance of free speech and academic freedom."
I was extremely lucky to retire after 20 years in and get the opportunity to leave California when I did.
A sobering article.
The prognosis is harsh but clear: either selection for competence will return or America will experience devolution to more primitive forms of civilization and loss of geopolitical power.
The recent ruling against affirmative action helps. But I'm afraid the entrenched academic bureaucracies have done too much damage already and will work tirelessly to ensure that equity happens anyway. There are plenty of workarounds that can give preference to stupid people with the right genes.
"How many SJWs does it take to ruin an institution? No need to show your work."
Why can't someone fly a 747 into the NYT building?
I understand that the Finnish winters are quite long and folks get bored, but come on!
Good. I'll be sure to do it at every opportunity.
Fucking degenerates.
If I lived in the UK or Western Europe I would seriously look into emigrating to Hungary or Poland.