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The Most Ignorant College Teacher of All Time

by | Nov 22, 2017 |

Benjamin Fong is on the faculty of the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University (ASU), which means that this Arizonan helps to pay him through my state taxes.  But I’m more embarrassed than chagrined—embarrassed that such a dim bulb teaches at a public university. Fong’s ignorance is on full display in his commentary pasted below this article, a commentary that was republished by the New York Times, which apparently likes dim bulbs. Fong’s premise is that global warming is a worldwide crisis that can only be solved by doing away with capitalism and its profit motive. Devoid of...

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Sexual Harassment: a Problem of Leadership, not HR

by | Nov 22, 2017 |

During much of my corporate career, I was a human resources executive for large companies, where I fired scores of jerks and creeps for sexual harassment, long before harassment became headline news. I also was once falsely accused of sexual harassment by a nut-job of a woman.  Fortunately, her female manager knew that the allegation was totally false, because, unbeknownst to the accuser, the manager had observed the interaction in question and listened in on the conversation between me and her.  When the manager subsequently asked me what should be done about the accuser, I responded, “Get...

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Searching for a Doctor, Hair Stylist, and Auto Mechanic

by | Nov 13, 2017 |

In preparing for our move this coming January from our current home in metro Phoenix to our new home in metro Tucson, my wife Kim and I were recently in Tucson to find a new family doctor, a new hair stylist for her, and a new auto mechanic. These were stressful decisions, for if Kim and I didn’t find service providers as good as the ones we’ve had in Phoenix for decades, we might end up regretting our decision to move.  (If any male readers are wondering what’s so important about a spouse liking her hair stylist, they’ve never been married.) The most difficult search was for a family...

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Torture by Smartphone

by | Nov 8, 2017 |

A museum in Paris features torture devices used in the middle ages, such as the rack. Centuries from now, a torture museum of the 21st century will feature smartphones as the most popular torture device of the times. My latest torture by smartphone began with the installation of a new garage door opener at my new house in Tucson. The opener is Wi-Fi enabled and designed so that the garage door can be opened and closed remotely via a smartphone.  It’s similar to the thermostats for my new HVAC system and to the cameras and settings for my new security system, all of which can be operated...

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Hispanic Hokum and Hypocrisy about White Privilege

by | Oct 19, 2017 |

You’ve no doubt heard the agitated small-brained parrots screeching in unison:  “Squawk!  White privilege!  White privilege!  Squawk!” The most mindless are the parrots who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino, such as un-funny comedian George Lopez, who recently insulted an audience at a charity event with a diatribe about white privilege.  Other Hispanic celebrities, as well as pseudo-intellectual Hispanic reporters and commentators, also have screeched about white privilege. These parrots make a mockery out of the diversity movement and make fools out of themselves with their appalling...

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NFL Player Manifesto

by | Sep 28, 2017 |

Here’s a letter that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should write to the players who want to make the National Anthem a political and racial issue: Dear Players: Let me assure you that the NFL takes your issue very seriously, whatever it might be.  In fact, we take it so seriously that we want to give you a platform that is much better than demonstrating during the National Anthem. I have asked each head coach to set aside time at the next team meeting or practice for each of you to write a manifesto of at least a thousand words, summarizing your grievances against society, the nation, the...

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The Asian Skunks at the Diversity Party

by | Sep 20, 2017 |

Asians have done it again. Once again, they’ve debunked the diversity dogma that prevails at universities and elsewhere, including the canard that minorities are held back because of white privilege, which is itself a canard. How have Asians done this? By achieving success as a racial minority, a minority that had faced as much, if not more, discrimination in the country’s past than other minority groups, including  such white minorities as my “wop” and “dago” peasant forebears, other impoverished southern European immigrants, dirt-poor Scots-Irish Appalachians, and, of course, Jews. How...

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Cognitive Dissonance and the Statue of Robert E. Lee

by | Aug 15, 2017 |

When the news broke about white supremacists inciting violence over the removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, I was reading one of the most thought-provoking books on human nature that I’ve ever read—namely, the New York Times bestseller, Sapiens:  A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari. One can’t have a fragile ego to read the book, for it doesn’t speak highly of Homo sapiens. But it does explain why modern humans have such violent disagreements over statues and other totems and the ideas they represent. It wasn’t always this way. Throughout most...

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