Browsing the archives for the Irrational category

Five Monkeys, Or; How Government Policies Are MaintainedPosted By: Barry Belmont

New ASUN Fee: The Failure of Democracy?Posted By: Barry Belmont

I know absolutely nothing about running a university. My knowledge of economies of scale, of recent financial crises, and of what needs to be done to ensure self-sustaining microeconomies is minimally theoretical at best with practical aspects not nuancing my ideology to any great degree. I am not a proponent of governments, bureaucracies, and their [...]

AS(sholes)UN: $64,000 Extra = $64,000 SpentPosted By: Barry Belmont

For those interested in such manners (I’m looking at you VisLupiEstGrex), the ASUN Senate allocated an extra $64,000 in student funds yesterday. Why they didn’t just give $5 back to every student is beyond me. How are they to know that students wouldn’t rather get a Big Mac or pick around the Wal-Mart DVD bin? [...]

Fox and Friends and Genetics and Ignorance and Some Closet RacismPosted By: Barry Belmont

The perversification of the sciences of biology, genetics, medicine, sociology, and psychology, the utter disregard for the institution of acceptance and tolerance, and the disgusting, romping foray into the most shameful shadows of xenophobia that still plague the otherwise noble humanist values to which much of this country suscribes can all be seen in the [...]

Don’t Vote: The Irrationalities of the Election and the Cult of the VotePosted By: Barry Belmont

When our voice is reduced to a single button push, when who we are as a person with hopes and dreams and aspirations can be demeaned to the point of absurdity with such statements as “the only way to be heard is to vote,” when noses are looked down and idols are held up at [...]