Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

WHY NOT? THERE ISN’T A SHRED OF EDUCATION LEFT IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS:  The Right Cannot Afford to Abandon Public Education.

At this point kids would learn more from loitering on street corners. At least they would learn the rough money arithmetic of illiterates the world over. The schools work really hard at not educating the kids, while filling their heads with things that just ain’t so.

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:  The Guardian Cycle, Vol.1: In Dreams and Other Stories.

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The Guardian Cycle, Vol.1: In Dreams and Other Stories by [Caroline Furlong]

A man whose debts must be paid by vengeance. A woman desperate to save her husband. A grieving father finding a young enemy soldier on his veritable doorstep…

These fantasy and soft sci-fi stories wonder whether or not heroes need families. Are we not told that families slow the hero down? Is it not typically implied that they get in the way of the adventure? Are they a burden, or truly the greatest strength from which the hero and those he loves can draw?

Six tales in this collection center on family, faith, and self-sacrificing love as men and women fight for the ones whom they hold most dear. Whether the enemy is inner turmoil, a nightmare, or a demon really does not matter. If the threat seeks to harm a member of the family, it is going to pay dearly.

IT’S SPELLED MOONBAT:  Monbiot : We Must End Our Dependence on Farming.

We’ll give up on farming when he gives up on eating, and not a minute earlier. What a nutbar. Where does he think the raw materials for these artificial foods will come from? Bah.

AS ANOTHER OVER-EDUCATED, OVER-DEGREED WOMAN, SHE’S RIGHT:  Academic Failure and the Loss of Discourse.

Despite all the leftism, ten years ago, I assumed everyone interested in a life of the mind would go to college. Now? Now if anyone were to ask my opinion, I’d tell any 18 year old to take training in a trade, or learn to do whatever they must do to start a business, build their gadgets, start creating a future.

I’m not sure colleges have changed that much in the last ten — or twenty — years. But their faults and flaws have become more stridently evident.