>> But as a father, there is satisfaction in hearing my son tell me of the things he easily recognizes as garbage; and also that he handled the situation well. >>
I feel that pride. My daughter is now a 19 year old junior in the honor’s program. She texts me the stupid stuff her liberal professors say all the time, but she holds her own in debate. Wife did a great job home schooling her.
She laughed when she saw “The Sexual Politics of Meat.”
Bravo! I bought both my sons tee shirts emblazoned with a large steak and the words: “Meat is Murder! ... tasty, tasty, murder!
She ended up getting a dual Bachelors degree in Chemistry & Physics with minors in Math & the Classics. She had work-study as a lab tech in the schools enviromental science lab. In fact it was fun watching her come to a realization that quite often there was remarkably little science behind some of the enviromental sacred cows. She now is working on her PhD in Chemistry and is working with a group doing quantum chemistry calculations for low temperature superconductors.