Neighborhood Schools, Local Business

Over at The League, the (extra)ordinary Mr. Kain has a splendid piece on “the concept of the school itself as an essential part of one’s community.” It is, rest assured, well worth the read. (At Front Porch Republic, Professor Fox offered, a couple of months ago, the very interesting “A Partially Localist Defense of Public [...]

Porn, Rights, and Higher Education Or, Thank God I’m Gone in Two Months

The University of Maryland: Our basketball team fails; featuring two socialists, a communist, and left-liberal constitutes intellectual diversity, and we like to show xxx-rated porn on campus.

Obama at ND — Or, Everyone Is Wrong

Joining the fray late, but better (I hope) than never, and probably nowhere near the end of this tortuous, torturous, obscene debate, I feel, if only to keep promises that I have made, that I need to say something about the matter of President Obama’s presenting the commencement address at my alma mater and receiving [...]

“A big corporation”

That’s what one Maryland state delegate thinks of the flagship university of the University System of Maryland!

The Catholic Capitulation: Blame the Leadership, Part II

At the heart of Catholic culture must be the parish. Here, members of the faithful, ideally, undergo instruction (The family, of course, ought to supplement this!), either, when possible, through the Catholic schools or, otherwise, through CCD programs. The should share in worship, in celebration, and in community. They should also be inspired — in [...]

The Catholic Capitulation: Blame the Leadership, Part I

A few weeks ago, I conversed online with a friend from Notre Dame, a devout, knowledgeable Catholic (undeniably better than I), who is married and the young mother of two adorable children, whom she and her husband intend to raise, and already raise, in the Faith and traditions of the Holy Mother Church, when she [...]

Even More Academic Insanity

Again from the University of Maryland’s daily FYI e-mail
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 00:01:11 -0500
From: fyi-poster@umd.edu
Subject: Where My Girls At?: A Comedic Look at Black Lesbians
Subject: Where My Girls At?: A Comedic Look at Black Lesbians
When : Thursday, November 20, [...]

A world without apostrophes is not a world for me

From the Times of London, “To Dump the Apostrophe Would be Apostasy”:
Of course, we all make spelling mistakes. But to abandon the attempt to get it right would be the biggest error. In one nonsensical proposal, the reformers suggest that we leave a space where an apostrophe should go. Wouldn’t you still have to know [...]

Vin Suprynowicz on the disastrous DC schools

Read it all here. This line from Cato’s Andrew Coulson that he quotes is incredible:

Instead, Mr. Coulson concludes, the failure to “think outside the box” leaves Washington’s parents, students, teachers, and even well-meaning reformers trying to “manage a bureaucracy so Byzantine it would give Rube Goldberg an aneurysm.”

Further indication that I shouldn’t be at the University of Maryland?

As some readers may know, either from conversation with me or from a previous post, I’ve been considering, quite strongly, withdrawing from the University of Maryland. Doing my best to exhaust all options, I’ve contacted multiple departments for which I might be even slightly qualified as a teaching assistant, hoping, against hope, that one program [...]