Let’s hear it for belated ad hominem attacks! Woo hoo!
It’s interesting that someone who took classes at Cornell, and had the balls to send his kids there too, then turns and cries ‘wolf’ with the ‘LATENT SOCIALISTS’ brand. In psychology that’s called projection. Cornell is no Hillsdale, my friend.
Have you had any talks with the kiddos recently? Any Mao posters crop up on the back side of the bedroom doors?
Oh, gosh, that’s so ad hominem. (slapping own wrists)
On a serious note, as a fan of classical music, what’s your opinion of Beethoven’s Allegretto from the 7th? (I’m not a big classical fan, but this piece is wonderful - and yes this is an olive branch)
Also, I am glad to see you’re at ease with using God in your chat. Although not Jewish, I am at ease with Him, too.
I guess you're not married. It was very important to my wife that my son go to an Ivy. He was for it too so I got outvoted. I'd say the school was not good for him, but I'm sure he shares some of the blame. He did come back a lot more left than when he started.
As for me going there, I love it because I get to straighten out some of what goes on there. For example, in a "global warming" class the professor compared the incidence of solar radiation to ocean temperatures (or something like that - it's been a while). I asked how he could equate what was going on at the top of the atmosphere with something at the bottom when there was a little thing called clouds in the way. (He was very insistent that I ask questions!) And so he replied that, yeah I was right and it was an apples and oranges comparison. And twenty kids got to hear that not everything they were hearing about the data they were seeing was being properly explained. You can see another example for a class I wish I had taken in this Amazon Book Review. No Mao posters though, and surprisingly enough not even an Obama poster, though he has been a big Obama supporter. (My daughter cancels him out.)
On a serious note, as a fan of classical music, what’s your opinion of Beethoven’s Allegretto from the 7th?
I love everything about the Beethoven 7th, and the Liszt transcription too.
ML/NJ