In the United States, the government mandates washing eggs before commercial sale. In Europe, egg washing is forbidden by law.
Source: Why Americans Refrigerate Eggs – Jeffrey Tucker – Liberty.me
Category: Education
Adler on Education
They forget that individuals learn a great deal with little or no schooling. They forget that experience teaches, and that learning by any means is part of a lifelong educational process. Schools of all grades and kinds are only one group of means in the pursuit of education.
A much better question to ask is: Who is a generally educated human being? The negative answer is easy; certainly not any person who has just earned a diploma: a degree, or some other sort of certification.
Source: Education
10 Essential Life Skills to Pass on to Your Kids
Yet, even outsourced education is severely lacking when it comes to critical life skills. Younger children are being forced to consume academics at tender ages from educators who struggle to impart basic social skills. Parents of older children often complain that high school students learn none of the basic life skills they once attained in public school: sewing, financial management, basic home and auto repair. College graduates who used to be able to establish successful careers with broad-based liberal arts degrees now struggle to find work. Trade school students have a better chance of becoming independent business owners than their more elite peers.
The Not-So-Secrets of Success
“Don’t be a weirdo”
… here is a short (and by no means exhaustive) list of things that parents should warn their children to avoid:
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Communism
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Heroin
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Pornography
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Canada
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Canadian pornography
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Herpes
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Feminists
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Feminists with herpes
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Facial piercing
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Tattoos
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Anyone with an anime character as their Internet avatar
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“Sexting”
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Internet dating apps
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Syphilis
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Conspiracy theories
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“Charismatic” cult leaders
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Gender Studies majors
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Chlamydia
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Rape
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Al Gore
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“Social justice”
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Gonorrhea
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Murder
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Anyone who has ever worked at Disney or Nickelodeon
Source: The Not-So-Secrets of Success
A look at the workings of ‘Climate Propaganda Inc.’
Mooney relies on a staple of alarmists, what Andrew Revkin calls the “single study syndrome” (e.g., see his NYT articles here and here). The mainstream media broadcast scary papers but never mention those that contradict the doomster climate story. For example, a new paper by Nicholas Lewis and Judith Curry in the Journal of Climate: “The impact of recent forcing and ocean heat uptake data on estimates of climate sensitivity.” This is one of several paper suggesting that the climate is much less sensitive to CO2 than the major climate models assume. Letting people learn about this science would ruin the science is science is settled narrative.
Whatever the Left Touches It Ruins | National Review
A partial listing of the damage done.
The Left has ruined most of the arts. The following three examples are chosen because they are scatological, a favorite form of left-wing artistic expression. Before the Left poisoned the arts, art was intended to elevate the viewer (or listener). But to the Left, “elevate” is a meaningless term; it is far more at home depicting urine, fecal matter, and menstrual blood.
Source: Whatever the Left Touches It Ruins | National Review
Political Correctness Destroys History and Christianity
Reading left-wing sources might give you the impression that evil Christians in Europe wanted to take back the holy land from the peaceful Muslims. Here’s a map you’ve probably never seen, showing the battles waged by Muslims against Christians. Christians fought back by focusing on the holy lands. Muslims had waged 548 battles before the First Crusade in 1095 called by Pope Urban II.
Islam is not a religion. It is a totalitarian political movement. It needs to be defeated and banned by all civilized nations.
Source: Political Correctness Destroys History And Christianity
Temple Professor: The American Home Is an Oppressive Cisgender Space | Breitbart
A recently published academic journal article from a professor at Temple University makes the case that the typical American household reinforces oppressive cisgender normalities.
Max J. Andrucki, a professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, penned a recent academic journal article on the oppressive nature of the American household. The article, which was recently highlighted by the popular New Real Peer Review Twitter account, is entitled “Trans objects: materializing queer time in US transmasculine homes,” was published last week in the academic journal Gender, Place and Culture. The article, at its core, argues that traditional American homes fail to embrace “trans objects.”
Why is this guy not locked up? He’s deranged and needs to be put away for the safety of himself and his students. There is no such thing as a ‘transmasculine’ home. He’s fighting a war against reality here and doubtless he is spreading this perverted thinking to his students at taxpayer expense.
Source: Temple Professor: The American Home Is an Oppressive Cisgender Space | Breitbart
The Overthrow of the Great Books
The professors act this way because they are suffused with ressentiment. Ressentiment is, of course, Nietzsche’s term for a certain state of mind, or rather, a condition of being. He liked the French word because it signified a deeper psychology than the German (and English) equivalent does. Ressentiment is the attitude of slave morality, Nietzsche wrote, the moral formation of one who feels rage and envy but hasn’t the strength or courage to act upon them. A man of ressentiment knows and resents his own weakness and mediocrity, and he hates the sight of greatness, which only reminds the lesser party of his own inferiority. And so he fashions a new moral system whereby victimhood becomes a high badge, suspicion signifies a sensitive eye for justice, and group denunciation of lone dissenters is the surest path to virtue.
I grew up with a set of the Great Books in my home. I was the only one who used them, and I still have them. With a set of these books I don’t need to deal with, or pay exhorbitant sums to, mediocre professors (but I repeat myself).
Source: The Overthrow of the Great Books
‘Uneducated’: The Left’s Favorite Pejorative
The left wants to keep up the great lie that you need a college education to be happy and successful, and moreover as a prerequisite for holding any sort of an opinion. Leftists mock the idea of an autodidact and any form of self-education. In their minds, “real” knowledge can only be spoon-fed to you within the great halls of an institution.
As an autodidact myself, I’ve run into old acquaintances who do indeed mock the idea that one can educate oneself. Even worse is the disdain they exhibit for ‘real world’ experience. These are credentialed academics teaching at eastern universities.
I’ve found them to be shallow, ill-informed, and, from my perspective, uneducated in anything but, maybe, the narrow area of study their degree is in. Yet for some reason they think they are ‘experts’ on everything else also.