I recently came across an article about school segregation that twisted my undies a bit. The article was written by Whitney Pirtle, a professor at the University of California Merced, and she believes that schools that identify students who are strong academically in order to provide those students with a more challenging curriculum are practicing …
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 …
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During my first stab at higher education, I was a prop. I wasn’t at Buffalo University (UB) to enrich my own well-being, I was there to enrich the well-being of others—namely, administrators, tenured professors, and coaches. Sadly, I wasn’t the only prop at UB. Most of my fellow students were props as well. We partied, …
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In my freshman year at Buffalo University (1979), I lived on the sixth floor in one of the towers in the Richmond Quad. Because I lived on the sixth floor, I naturally used the tower’s elevator a lot. And I’ll never forget the day I got on this said elevator and became the victim of …
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Because I’m a fan of bodyweight training, I come across a lot of YouTube videos like the one below. Well, since I’m a little long in the tooth, I really have no interest in doing 100 pull-ups or push-ups a day for 30 days. I just don’t have the intestinal fortitude to push myself physically …