He’s right. We put people in college who don’t have the intellectual capacity for university studies. It happens because state investment into higher education dropped off a cliff. So what do you do with the people, the buildings, the labs, everything? Fire everybody and bulldoze down the facilities because there is no more money for the upkeep? Nobody would make such a decision.

The only alternative is to bring to college people who aren’t capable of being college students and bully professors into passing them by declaring that failing a student is racist. DEI is a financial necessity. State funding keeps dropping, so we need more and more students who are incapable of learning at that level. Such students need a battery of professional services – tutoring, counseling, clerks to explain how life works in every area, DEI functionaries to make everybody accept what’s happening – and that necessitates more money.

Tuition grows, student debt grows, but there’s no end in sight because it’s a self-perpetuating model. And it all started when the state turned away and said, “fend for yourselves.” Yes, there’s absolutely too much higher education on every level. There’s a massive overproduction of useless PhDs, Master’s, Bachelor’s. In order to create this overproduction we are embracing unscientific, bizarre superstitions, such as that everybody is equally capable of all kinds of intellectual operations.

Libs of TikTok was a great account that mysteriously went to the absolute dogs for no discernible reason. Here’s a recent example:

No, she didn’t “threaten.” Just like Trump didn’t “confess to rape.” They both ran their mouths stupidly. Big deal.

16 felonies? For saying something dumb? And the same people will complain about inflated court cases against Trump. And bitch about liberal snowflakes who are genocided by misgendering.

This has been the case throughout the past 2 years. Biden promises a lot and then forgets to deliver anything. And people don’t know because they trust the news sources telling them that it’s the fault of Republicans in Congress.

Biden’s support for Ukraine is the equivalent of BLM. Under the slogans of supporting Ukraine (or helping African Americans), Democrats introduce policies that destroy both. It’s the same old “truth is lies” and “men are women” that the Left so loves. Look at their support for Palestinians. Everything they have done for decades has kept actual Palestinians hostage to HAMAS terrorists.

Laura Nowlin is a writer from St Louis whose two-book series “If Only” is mega popular among the teenage #BookTok crowd. The books read easily and invest teenage experience with such importance and coolness that it’s understandable why kids love them.

The world Nowlin creates in the series is worth talking about because it presents some things as normal that I didn’t necessarily expect. Here are some of them:

Fathers

The world of “Is Only” is a world of single mothers. Dads are either dead or evil. This is an upper-middle-class environment of people with trust funds and trips to Europe, so the absence of fathers in the literary universe does not correspond to the reality of the social class that’s depicted and will read the books. The single mothers of the books are portrayed as amazing but it’s unclear how such wonderful women are so incapable of keeping a man around.

Politics

The books insist that all good people are left-wing because being on the Left is the same as being kind. There’s no framework for kindness and abnegation, and these qualities are tinged as political because of that lack.

Abortion

Abortion is a possibility that lies outside of moral concerns but the books veritably glorify teenage pregnancy. The second book in the series, in particular, lays it on so thick one immediately wants to go back in time and get pregnant as a teenager. Again, these books won’t be read by any teens who are likely to get pregnant before the age of 28. Those girls who are don’t read. So it’s interesting that there’s such a detailed foray into the pleasures of teenage single motherhood where babies are raised by all-female communities of manless women.

Sex

The series’ understanding of love is what I found to be the most bizarre. It posits that you can deeply, genuinely and seriously love several people at the same time and have sex with all of them. There are gradations in these “loves”, with some being more important than others but all these liaisons come under the label of love. Adult romance is a lot more monogamous, and one struggles to imagine a situation where adult female readers would find it satisfactory for a romantic idol character to inform his beloved that she’s one of a small harem but he prefers her a tad more.

Pills

The books are heavily into the medicalization of normal life. They posit that depression is something that just happens to people randomly and it’s normal to become a life-long pill-taker at a very young age. The novels also normalize heavy alcohol intake by very young children. It gets quite tiresome to read page after page about how everybody got extremely drunk.

In short, the world described in the novels is one where women should be happy to be chosen as one of the seraglio of mini-loves by a romantic idol and then prepare themselves for lonesome child-raring and pill-popping in the company of other discarded, pill-popping women. Of course, money and magically materializing “careers” will appear out of nowhere to reward you but you’ll still pill up and booze up to bear such a life.

This is classic projection. Trump is a strongman like I’m a dainty wallflower. But people with authoritarian tendencies project their defects on him.

Americans aren’t listening because they have found a new George Floyd and are eagerly debating whether a new round of georgefloyding is necessary. Plus, I’m sure Trump said something that needs to be pored over until he says something else.

Our university is doing a new brand positioning. The people in marketing came up with 3 statements that I’ll summarize as:

1.  We are affordable and offer good value for the money.

2. We are kind, sensitive and offer endless emotional support on and off campus.

3. We are diverse and have a lot of very diverse diversity.

Obviously, I chose #1 because it’s very true. We are the cheapest in the state. The second one is worded in such a pseudo-psych language that I cringe. And #3 is standard woke drivel.

Let’s place bets on what the final choice will be. I’m pretty sure it won’t be the reasonable, honest option.

And it’s not Trump that’s doing it. It’s the Biden administration, well in keeping with its sustained policy to take apart America as a nation-state.

I’m not saying, of course, that Trump wouldn’t do the exact same thing. Partisanship is alien to me. But for people who like to inhabit the pleasing delusion that our only problem is “evil Trump”, this should be a wakeup call. Not that it will be because people are too attached to their partisan fantasies.

I think I finally found the right candidate. It was the shortest interview known to humanity. A mother of three, with a 19-year-old and preschooler twins. So an old mother like me, which means she’s known serious hardship. Has her own business and immediately struck a friendship with my secretary.

I hired her on the spot.

I saw the video, and the professor, and especially his wife, disgraced themselves completely. Yes, the student is a brainless, chirpy airhead. But a professor should know how to engage with pouty students. Under no circumstance should you raise your voice, lose your cool, or initiate physical contact with a student. Most importantly, you do not unleash an overly emotional spouse on them.

The student has an absolute right to express her beliefs – hideous as they might be – at a university function. And anybody else has the right to respond in a similarly calm and, ideally, more dignified manner. There’s a profound difference between having a party at your house as a private individual and hosting a professional event.

How can we ask students not to be enormous snowflakes who freak out when they hear something unpleasant when we act like exactly this kind of snowflake?