Education

Howling like a wolf and barking up the wrong tree

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism, with the announcement of a new “comprehensive review” that could jeopardize billions of dollars for the Ivy League college.

A federal antisemitism task force is reviewing more than $255 million in contracts between Harvard and the federal government to make sure the school is following civil rights laws, the administration announced Monday. The government also will examine $8.7 billion in grant commitments to Harvard and its affiliates.

April 1st, 2025

The felonious occupant of the White House, oblivious to the centrality of religious education to early American independence and  stability, takes aim at Harvard.  He does not know that the Pilgrims established the environment in which neither Jesus nor Moses were the dictators of society’s norms at Harvard.  It is also clear that the hordes of evangelicals, who are pretending to support the state of Israel, do not give a rat’s backside about EVERYONE’S right to exist,  much less the right to participate in the quest for improved prosperity, more mature unions and guarantees of security.

All who think that American power will bring the globe to harmony and peace are dining on delicious tidbits from a table of wasted dreams and rejected nutrients.  Since the felon of Mar a Lago confesses that he likes illiterate and rich people a deadlier combination cannot help but lead to more greatness like a civil war, Jim Crow, rampant disease and a failed State.

Good luck dismantling the scaffolding while the tower is under construction.  Huff and puff, ye moguls of law, moronic excellence and greed.  Little Piggy’s house will stand.  He’s always stood for mercy, justice and humility.

Harvard does not Have an Idiot Parade

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We do not want to imagine that there are  graduates of top-ranked universities who are rank idiots, complete nincompoops, people who learned little from their discipline, but there are people like Jared Kushner, the Swiss Army Knife of the criminal mob that is the frontline for potus45.  While there are increasing numbers  of people with degrees we have outstanding and longstanding evidence that the people running governments and large corporations are always going to be the usual witting and unwitting tools of God and the devil, and a parade of graduates.

Schools for learning

Why go to school if not to learn?  Why call yourself human if you do not revel in our wonderful and diverse solidarity?  Why do some of us we call ourselves God’s people when we have no intention of even striving for human honour and integrity? 

People like badges and medals and get to wear some whether or not they are earned.  I know many people who have been to school, graduated but have no expertise. They ask the same elementary questions that begin most serious inquiries and they support theories that have long ago bit the dust.  Men and women with certificates, diplomas, bachelors and masters degrees seem incapable of intelligent discussion of the principal subjects of their discipline.

Inhumane populations

It matters little what school a person attended.  A dunce with a degree shouts loudly the same disgrace as a pastor with a megachurch, as a bigot with a bully pulpit.   Surely we see that there are exceptional graduates of every school, women and men who serve with distinction using the expertise of their fields.  When the graduate uses his resources for nefarious purposes such as abusing migrants and their children, or the idiot parade may seem to be real and actively aggressive.  We hope the phenomenon is rare.

We may never know how many graduates of top-ranked universities are rank idiots, complete nincompoops, religious extremists, grass-trampling pastors and neo-Nazis. Pity!