Comments on: Feminist Chickens Coming Home to Roost on Supreme Court

By: Pete OB

Pete OB — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:17:43 +0000

I found the comments as informative and entertaining as the article. Thanks to all.

By: Peyton

Peyton — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:54:57 +0000

Great article. It’s interesting that you posted this, because ever since Sotomayor has been on the scene, she has reminded me of one particular English professor I had. Demeanor, voice, ideology, everything.

By: happy1ga

happy1ga — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:24:59 +0000

I am pretty sure kids might just be better off now to take a couple of courses at tech schools and get a job. There’s nothing that will make a person a capitalist quite as quickly as having a job and having to pay your own way in life. Then maybe after growing up a little they can go back and hit the Unis.

By: the troll

the troll — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:27:01 +0000

Damn, with all these horror stories about the indoctrination of the gullible, mushy headed little kiddies by the intellectual elites, I’m glad I didn’t waste my time with college!!

By: Homeschooling Granny

Homeschooling Granny — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:47:29 +0000

Home school your kids. Have them finish high school level work at about 16, then study humanities so that they can ace AP or CLEP exams and go into college as sophomores in a hard science program.

By: Dave ll

Dave ll — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:04:35 +0000

Mary… seems to me you are projecting alot of your suppressed anger and rage at Ms. Sotomayor, for which she may or may not be deserving of…but we REALLY don’t know for now.

My guess is that while she may well be that voice of “humanitarianism” you so profoundly despise, in the end, I wouldn’t be surprised to see her voting with Scalia and Roberts for reasons entirely her own. After all, the Constitution, if interpreted “correctly”, is at it’s core a “humanitarian” document. The question is, will her “feelings” allow her to do that, or will she cater and compromise to the point of inane posturing to make her point, come what may…

I’m not convinced she will, but then like you, I’m quite aware of the worst happening…

By: Rashputin

Rashputin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:40:57 +0000

Regarding : 27. Michael Steele’s Brother in Law’s Bodyguard:

“You’re definitely hitting air here with that one. Judging by the reasoning skills I’ve witnessed here, you’d be lucky if a majority of your readers actually finished high school.”

Now that is an odd way of supporting the point that schools no longer educate people in how to reason but rather, train people to agree with the professor. Were schools doing anything like the job they are intended to do they would be training people who have actually finished both high school and college to reason in a way that rose to your no doubt high standards.

Thank you for the subtle agreement with the article and for pointing out that the failings of the public when it comes to reasoning are in fact the fault of a biased and elitist educator class that feel no responsibility to those they teach. It’s high time that educators have raising the abilities of their students as their primary goal rather than the brainwashing of their students as their major goal.

Have a nice day

By: C. R. Grizzle

C. R. Grizzle — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:19:56 +0000

Wonderfully done article and with SO much supporting documentation! I took a long time to read it along with almost all of the links. But I lose heart when I think of how few people will take the time to read through something as intellectually in depth as this. I agree with Glenn Alen’s comment…. How do we get this message to the masses? You’ve got to be pretty above average in intelligence to even get what Mary is saying. If you don’t take the time to study it, and don’t have pretty good powers of logical deduction, you’re never going to get it. We’ve got to figure out a way to market these ideas to the average Joe.

By: tom swift

tom swift — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:52:23 +0000

I managed to get through MIT without running into Chomsky even once. And that was a few decades ago, back when he got around more. Of course my majors were in the School of Science and the School of Engineering, neither of which were anywhere near his territory, thank Gawd.

By: newscaper

newscaper — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:18:00 +0000

I went to RPI (Rensselaer in upstate NY) a 2nd tier engineering college behind the 2 Techs, in the mid 80s, and while perhaps not the majority, the left-winger had the loudest voice on campus.

The ridiculous thing was how *trendy* the idiots were, following the fads sweeping the Ivy’s as wannabe’s — one year its was Nuke Freeze, then Divest Now, then ‘the homeless’. Pathetic.

I just spent a year back in industry after taking a break a few years to teach computer science as an instructor at a state university. The CS & IS faculty were mostly left-leaning. OTOH, the large majority of the students I got to teach from engineering were right-leaning.

Perhaps the engineers have a more concrete focus on the real world than even the scientists.

Also, perhaps software in general may be more susceptible to liberal dogma, because the focus on symbol manipulation makes it not as different as you’d think at first glance from the noise of much of the humanities bunch.