A depressing essay. Just one more sign of the abysmal state of our educational system at all levels. I don’t think that you should get a college degree if you can’t write coherently and grammatically. Or graduate high school, for that matter.
I always found that the best way to learn how to wrote was to read, and appreciate, others’ writing.
More thoughts from George Leef. As he points out, inability to write clearly is probably indicative of an inability to think clearly.
Dumber than you may think. I never had any reason to think him smart.
Having to prove you’re black, in Detroit. By any sane reading of the 14th Amendment, all of this is not just absurd, but unconstitutional.
A test drive, on your dime.
Some thoughts on Peter Pan and the Occupy movement.
[Update a few minutes later]
Occupy’s totalitarian temptation. It’s what Leftists do.
The case against them.
I’ve been thinking about getting a standing desk.
Few soldiers lose their humanity in war. But that they don’t, at least temporarily, can be one of the unbearable pains that they carry forever.
Barack Obama and his rich socialist buddies.
It’s the day to commemorate the Victims of Communism. Particularly the living ones in places like Cuba and North Korea, for whom there is still some hope.