Rusty Shackleford: you’ve stolen my name!

So, she is yet another poster child for how leftwing academia can eagerly embrace and easily indoctrinate a young person who managed to enter college “not knowing a lot”. Most conservatives like VDH would see a crop pickers daughters as ill-suited for asupposedly elite academic university. Instead, the left, using an all-inclusive, multicultural politics can recruit people like this and make them loyal foot soldiers and propagandists.

In our sort of multi-cultural, pluralistic democracy, any ideology which actually adheres to stubborn “standards” and tries to find real measures of worth and competence, will inevitably lose the all important popularity struggle for power (as De Tocqueville noted). The best way to understand the age we live in is through the fulcrum of the television game show, “Family Feud”. As you may recall, facts and “truth” have no consequence, only what the “survey says” is the arbitor of all value.

You have to remember, that in those days, everyone smoked and that made their voices deeper and more guttural.

It is too bad that the pendulum has swung so far the other way. Smokers are now treated like lepers. No kiding, in the name of a smoke free environment, smokers have to stand a minimum of 50 feet away from doorways at many institutions in this state. That’s a problem here in Fargo, today it is 5 degrees F.

For the record, I’m 48, don’t smoke, never have, and I love Peck, Wayne, Marvin, et. al. Andrew’s picks when you have time are, The Guns of Navarone, Chisum, and the Dirty Dozen.

Cheers,

Andrew

2 & 3. Agreed. I pretty much rely on personal searches on issues to provide me with as broad a perspective on issues as I can find. (And, I do specifically try to find people who disagree with me.) I avoid most contemporary fiction (books or movies) because I just can’t stand it. And, now, even most documentaries are opumentaries. Pretty dismal.

4 & 5. We can’t even tell the difference between decent human beings and criminals. What do you expect when one-fifth of the voting population of California put in office a violent pervert who should be serving 25+ years for sexual battery? What do you except from a population that insists on calling sexual battery “groping” and continually confuses and even equates voluntary, stupid-but-sane sexual idiocy (i.e. Clinton) with VIOLENT, CRUEL, INVOLUNTARY, PERVERTED CRIME? How can you even begin to expect any substantive act from such a perverted, smarmy, low class, disreputable loser? Schwarzenegger’s such a disgusting, pathetic piece of crap, he can’t tie his shoes without stepping on another person’s face in the process.

6. Agreed. And, since when do gay guys know anything about what’s attractive to straight women? Give me a hairy bass any day.

7. (Me, speaking to Al Franken.) “You, sir, are no Bill Buckley.”

8. Ditto manufacturing. How many problems in male unemployment, Chinese civil rights abuses, U.S. econ instability, etc. could be solved by the U.S. making more of it’s own consumer goods?

9. Yeah, but, the Right also believes their ends justify brutal means, i.e. putting a dangerous, pathetic, sickening pervert in the CA Governor’s office. When the GOP publically, LOUDLY, denounces Schwarzenegger, I’ll start to have some hope. Right now, I just feel homeless.

10. One word: vouchers. Even my leftist, not particularly religious friends wound up home-schooling their kids. I don’t know anyone not living in poverty who’s kept their kids in a public school. It’s dead, Jim.

I’m not what you would call a he-man, but I admire many of them. The kind of guys who aren’t ashamed to be what they are. Being educated in the public school system, it took me until well into my 30s to come to terms with being a straight white male, but I did make it.

How do I know I made it? The final scene in “A Few Good Men” where Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise face off.

“You can’t HANDLE the truth!”

At the time that movie came out, I was disgusted by the Nicholson character’s attitude. Now I not only understand it, but to a large degree I embrace it.

fwiw, browsing through old church hymnals versus new ones, you will notice that more than a few of the same songs are keyed lower in the more recent hymnals.