Robb Allen Undergoes Sex Change!!
Pictures don’t lie, Robb Allen of Sharp as a Marble has had a sex change operation!
And he did it all in the pursuit of fame!
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Firehand Pens an Uberpost
Firehand Pens an Überpost!
Entitled Some more on elite viewpoints and families, it’s worth your time. Excerpt:
(B)oth the Brit and American articles note the collectivist nature of the people who don’t want women to have the choice to stay home. ‘Paying back society’, ‘failing the feminist cause’; you don’t have- or shouldn’t have- an individual life: you have to make your choice(the one allowed) based on what’s best for the collective. Hell, these people might as well put an eyepiece on their Blackberry and walk around saying “You WILL be assimilated.”
Go. Read.
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
I am lucky enough now to be able to say that yes, I do have a small purpose in my life, such as it is. I go to work, love my family and then, in my spare time, send some words out into the universe hoping that they will help a woman realize that yes, she is free – free enough to fight and be feminine at the same time. Free enough to choose to live. – Breda
Why I Read Instapundit
Why I Read Instapundit
Glenn is a veritable firehose of information and links. From Friday, the Quote of the Day for today by Jerry Pournelle:
The purpose of modern government is to take money from the folks who save and pay their bills and live within their means, and use that to hire government workers; and to keep their power by using the money to buy votes from those who do not save and pay their bills and live within their means. And of course the money comes from those who work and save and pay their bills and live within their means — who else will have any money for the government to take?
Or am I unduly cynical? But you ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait until we have President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senate Leader Reid. Then you’ll see a lot of new laws, all designed to help you. Maybe it’s not possible to be unduly cynical.
From yesterday, a chart that illustrates what Jerry was saying:
In somewhat related news, I just ordered 800 rounds of .30-06 ammunition from the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
I mean, perhaps it’s just not possible to be too cynical.
A Gunblogger First Blogiversar
A Gunblogger First Blogiversary
New Jovian Thunderbolt celebrates his first blogiversary today, and possibly his 25,000th site visit. So drop on over and wish him well. I hear there’s cake and ice cream!
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
As long as our government controls the volume of our currency and awards itself the power to make or “guarantee” loans, this sort of evil will always hang over our heads. But no government has ever surrendered totalitarian authority over money and credit without the “incentive” of a violent revolution.
Torches and pitchforks, friends. Think torches and pitchforks. – Fran Porretto, One Degree Higher
RTWT.
I mean it.
A Concise History Lesson
A Concise History Lesson
Fran Porretto has penned an excellent (what else?) thumbnail essay on the path the Democrat party took from its “classical liberal” roots to its “progressive” posture today in The Devolution Of Liberalism.
Strongly recommended.
No, They Don’t.
No, They Don’t.
Dr. Helen links to this interesting PJM column by Mike McNally, Teaching Human Rights to Toddlers. Here’s the portion I take exception to:
According to the UK’s Telegraph, the project “will see teachers explaining to children as young as three that people across the world live different lives but everyone has a right to food, water, and shelter.”
No. They don’t. If they did, some other entity would be obligated to provide them. They have the right to seek food, water, and shelter, but no inherent right to have them.
Further down in McNally’s piece comes this gem of observation:
Parents reading about this new obsession with teaching “rights” could be forgiven for thinking that schools should focus on doing a better job of teaching the existing three R’s before adding a fourth to the syllabus. Because, while a decade and more of bar-lowering by Labour has led to more British pupils leaving school with more paper qualifications every year, anecdotal evidence from universities and employers suggests that educational standards are plummeting.
And the rot begins in primary school. A government report last year revealed that forty percent of British children struggle to write their own name, or form simple words such as “dog,” by the age of five, while a quarter fail to reach the expected levels of emotional development for their age.
And with British teenagers leading most of Europe in binge drinking, violence, teenage pregnancy, and abortions, it could also be argued that instead of teaching children about “rights,” or worrying about their tolerance of food from other cultures, schools should be more concerned with teaching them “right,” as distinct from wrong.
Robert Heinlein published Starship Troopers in 1959, and from it came this canny observation:
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual. Nobody preached duty to these kids in a way they could understand — that is, with a spanking. But the society they were in told them endlessly about their ‘rights.’
Looks like we’re still right on schedule.
UPDATE: Rachel has another example of a society where children are told endlessly about their rights, and nothing about their duties.
‘You can’t touch us, we’re 15, we can do what the f*** we like.
Heinlein would be so proud…
Weaker Ideas
Kim du Toit has an excellent education post up at Geopoliticus, The “Power” Elite, inspired by the piece from which I got last Saturday’s Quote of the Day, and another piece from Pajamas Media by Mary Grabar that I strongly recommend as well. Kim’s pretty insistent that you read both before his essay. I concur. Read ’em all.
I have one quibble. Professor Grabar says (and Kim quotes):
I blame it on women, specifically those women who, instead of working their ways into the club through rules of evidence, common values, and objective scholarship, have pushed in their alternate “ways of knowing.” The feminization of education has led to the idolization of Oprah. In the matriarchal upheaval in the academy, the great works of the canon that draw from our Western tradition, like Milton’s majestic Paradise Lost, are replaced by crudely rendered emotive investigations into oppression, like Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” or any of the “multicultural” offerings in the latest anthology.
In addition to eviscerating the canon to add women’s writing, of whatever dubious value (personal letters, diary entries, popular books), the academic feminists’ project was to attack the base of our way of thinking, which they correctly traced back to the notion of a monotheistic God who created a universe with an order based on reason, however indiscernible that at times might be to those he endowed with reason. The matriarchs’ attacks began on linearity, logic, argumentation — the very notion of the individual thinking self. Theorists promoting the “maternal presence in the classroom” accused even the thesis statement of the freshman five-paragraph essay of having embedded within it masculine goal-oriented thinking that in a rapacious manner eliminates weaker ideas.
My only quibble is that it didn’t begin with women in academia.
The denigration of reason began with Kant – a point Ayn Rand made, in her own inimitable way, repeatedly.
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
America is the last thing standing between humanity’s intact testicles and the quivering blade of liberalism. – Rachel Lucas, No. You cannot possibly be serious.
I wish I could write like that.