Gadflies- I am unashamedly using certain school assignments to double as posts on the rather silent site of late. I used to do history segments, now I am doing literary critique and opinion peices. Where did I go wrong. Horatius, Romulus, where are you! The following is a analysis of the argument proffered by a [...]
Some of you loyal Gadflies out there, having seen the results of my last assault upon “Liberal” education may be surprised to see me leveling my sword at the dragon once again. Some of you may not. But I resent being used as a sponge, being used by socialist professors who determine the curriculum at [...]
Dear Gadflies My mandatory English 102 class consists mainly of reading Barbara Ehrenreich’s despicable “Nickel and Dimed”. The author is an ACORN activist, feminist, and probable communist who spent several months doing “undercover” reporting on the dire conditions of the minimum wage worker. If any of you decide you REALLY have nothing better to do, [...]
Well, I am utterly charmed by this little poem that I accidently happened upon, by G.K. Chesterton. Really, it is too good, and it beautifully compliments Weaver’s critique of an unbalanced democracy. Here it is: “On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes” Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That [...]
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