Posted on 12/11/2014 10:01:55 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
College students and Congress need to get a grip on reality. Anyone who wants success must work for it, not rely on make-believe that obsequious emotions or statements can correct injustice or evil acts.
Choking back tears over hyped-up social strife to demand a reprieve from the hardship of sitting for college exams is just the latest chapter in over-emotionalizing politics. Most university instructors have pretty much heard it all when it comes to excuses for dodging assignments or tests. The old “the-dog-ate-my-homework” grew up to be Monday flu (hangover), monthly incapacitation (cramps) or temporary crippling (sprained/broken limbs resulting from stupid acts like jumping off a roof into a swimming pool).
Given these lame pretexts for avoiding work, this latest reason given by Columbia, and now Harvard and Georgetown, law students of trauma inflicted on their tender hearts by the grand jury rulings in Ferguson and Staten Island goes beyond the pale.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
FUTURE lawmakers?
Have you SEEN the lawmakers we have now? Especially the current self-appointed "Lawgiver"?
A nation governed by metrosexuals ls doomed.
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