Recent content by Bodhisattva

The Left has promoted Marxist political thought for decades. They once denied it; now it's declared proudly. Core ideas include viewing personal economic interactions as one of conflict/exploitation and the peddling of envy as policy. Even though free market capitalism is a system for...

I too was a victim of unlicensed, homemade barbery in my youth. The trauma was unspeakable! It was bad enough being subjected to the public education system. To have to attend with a haircut like this guy's ... millions of children suffer needlessly every year. We have to do better ... for...

There are so many examples that prove you correct. Lan taught nursing classes on the side for a while. (She loves teaching and always volunteers to show nursing students the ropes at her hospitals.) For a couple of semesters when we lived in Virginia, she actually was an adjunct professor at...

I agree. It's the give a man a fish or teach a man to fish choice. Education is teaching a man to fish. That's a far more effective way to change the trajectory of people's lives.

What is this "post" you speak of? I think you're just making stuff up.

Trouble-maker!

I appreciate the kind words about my wife's family. Look at the population of many immigrant communities to this country - particularly among Asian communities. They are doing better that anyone - including the white "oppressors." Why is that? Could it be some communities just care about...

Run it again until we get to 12-0! Don't you take your simulated football seriously?

I disagree particularly with this statement. In this country, upward mobility is relatively easy. (It's getting harder thanks to governmental stupidity.) Get a skill that will lead to good compensation. Invest much of your disposable income. (What a concept!) Don't ruin your life by being...

I've had the same experience with many grad school classmates. They all received grief from their neighbors for "wanting to be white." That's a shameful attitude. Becoming more intelligent and successful is not "being white." It's "being Asian." A related commment is that my black classmates...

I'm far more persuaded by the scholarship of Thomas Sowell on the subject. Social and economic disparities in the black community stem primarily from culture, family structure, and welfare policies rather than contemporary systemic racism. Sowell has written extensively on how government...

It is amazing watching the applied attitudes of different groups of people. My wife and her peers came to this country and are eternally grateful for the opportunity to rise to the level of their effort. And they went from having nothing to having millions. And then there are other groups who...

No, I don't. That's ridiculous. Where one lives, for example, will greatly limit choices. Probably can't get access to a wagyu steakhouse in the sticks of Alabama. Regardless, markets will allow one more options than the crap sandwich the government serves. No force needed. Supply and...