Questions
Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Kip
–Should chronically truant students be required to wear GPS ankle bracelets?
–A related Special Guest Question: When did college go from a place where people receive an education to a nanny and temperance institution?
–How do you think Ezra “Zoning is No Big Deal” Klein would react to using zoning to try to ban Jews from praying together? (Via Religion Clause.)
–Have you donated any money to the Knights of Columbus recently? If so, do you know where your money is going And will you ever do so again?
–Speaking of donating money, have you sponsored a 2008 Equality Rider yet?
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I have never donated money to Knights of Columbus, but I have donated time to guide groups through a KoC Halloween Haunted House fundraiser. Think I'll have to pass from now on.
On the guest question:
College debate is a farce. Instead of it being about the postive and negative policy impacts of the chosen resolution, and effective communication and persuasion, it's about finding whatever Marxist or "victim study" philosophy floats your boat and arguing why arguing that philosophy is better ("more educational" or "less offensive to whatever victim group you've made common cause with") than arguing about the chosen resolution. Also, you argue at 600 spoken words per minute.
My best friend quit college debate because he got called a rapist, in round, for reading evidence that said "congressman" instead of "congressperson" or some other gender-neutral term. The girl started crying, he got a big lecture from the judges about how insensitive he was, and he got booed when he was given a speaker award.
I'm a high school assistant coach, and I'm trying my damndest to keep this from infecting my area; one of the last bastions where communication and actual policy analysis means something.
Oh, whoops. I followed the link to Market Power, saw the article on colleges nannying MIPs, and then read a different story (still on Market Power) about the college debate mooning incident. Then that became the "Special Guest Question" in my mind (it was still about college, right? Right?).
Sorry for not appearing to make any sense.