Extracurriculars 101: Keeping College Enjoyable & Pricey (But Not Rigorous)
Brad DeFlumeri, president of the UMass/Amherst Republican Club, gave me his blessing to post the attention-grabbing ad that was used to advertise a debate featuring a famous granny:
Wonder if students went to hear Phyllis or went across the river to hear Gloria?
Sidebar: Brad also has another title: Petty Officer, United States Naval Reserve. He spoke, candidly, of his military experience in this article.
Another sidebar: The Skipster blogs about the economics of "student life" and George Washington U. That's one ridiculously expensive school.
Vox to Homeschool Moms: They Fear You; Be Thrilled
Allan Wall sent me Vox Day's column about Mother's Day - and what a powerful column it is (although I'm more partial to female doctors and potential Maggie Thatchers than he might be).
Invoking a rather prophetic tone, he writes:
"In the ongoing war against Christian civilization, it is the mothers who matter most. The sterile secularists don't fear Christian intellectuals or Christian pastors, they regard the former as petty annoyances and there's little need to worry about one weekly hour of Christian teaching on Sundays overcoming 40 hours of secular reprogramming from Monday to Friday. But they fear our mothers who can create children faster than they can manage to indoctrinate them. And they are downright terrified of our homeschooling mothers who rob them of their primary means of creating a new generation of secular barbarians."
