by John Galt » Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:25 pm
jesus christ
my father went off on me this weekend when i made some joke when i called up to tell him he should open up his own Atlantic magazine and at least read the article by the "leftist" kurt anderson from last month. i forget exactly what i said as it's not really important but he started going on, "some libertarian you are. you're just another of the elite republican establishment, which is basically the democratic party". i don't think my father is an idiot, at all, and he knows what he is saying (generally to goad, so he was doing that there) but when i see shit like what you just posted philly... we really need a national curriculum, with money at least flowing to the state level to be evenly distributed instead of local property taxes, and need to mandate homeschools pass certain tests or they will have to go to real school -- including the amish. there is no reason why an adult with no mental disabilities should not have been able to answer that question
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.