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This Week in Privilege Envy Syndrome
Check out this awesome article pushing privilege envy syndrome I came across this week. According to the author of this article, there’s no way students of color in Waterbury, Connecticut can do well in school because the schools they go to are mostly majority black and such schools spend $4,000 less per pupil than neighboring…
Here’s a Great Money-Making Idea for You: A Reparations App
Anyone familiar with this blog knows that I detest the Progressive definition of privilege. In a post that dare not speak its name, I challenged the notion that privilege equates to any unearned advantage a person comes to possess. To me, privilege is when someone lawfully gets preferential treatment at the expense of someone else’s…
Apollo 11 and Peak Competency
Fifty years ago today, two Americans walked on the moon. I was seven years old at the time, just old enough to appreciate how remarkable that achievement was. I still get chills thinking about the summer of 69. My world revolved around two things: the New York Mets and the Apollo moon mission. And while…
The Groovies Do Australia
From April 3 to May 7, Mrs. Groovy and I were on the other side of the world. Yep, we took our dynamic personalites—and our travel reward cards—to Australia. And we’re happy to report that even though we were forced drive on the wrong side of the road, no wallabies and kangaroos met their demise…
A Reading Suggestion for Freedomists and Other Right-Wing Nuts
Anyone familiar with this blog knows I’m a freedomist. I despise the tyranny of mandatory toil (i.e., a 9-to-5 job), and I despise the tyranny of a nanny state (i.e., a government that “cares” so much about the downtrodden, stupid, and prodigal, it is perfectly willing to dispense with freedom and assert abject control over…