The Mind Abhors The Death Of Reason

Contratimes readers recall the unfortunately-this-is-true story of the public servant disciplined and dismissed for using the very apt word "niggardly" in a public meeting wherein budgetary issues were on the agenda. Extremely wounded souls claimed injury over the man's allegedly racially-insensitive diction. That the word has nothing etymologically in common with that other word matters little; that there is no commonality other than a mere homophonous relation (this term, by the way, is not a "gender slur") matters little to the offended.

Now comes this incredible story out of Purdue University. It is simply amazing.

No doubt this offers more fodder for those thinking that the home schooling movement might consider establishing home universities. At the very least, home universities would seriously reduce higher education's massive "carbon footprint." Or is that higher education's massive carbon "jackboot-print"?

Peace.

BG

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