Here's Your Protest Candidate....Or A Random Word Generator...[CBD]

It's unacceptable that we have spent $700B on the endless war in Afghanistan, but are told $15/hr is too high for minimum wage. #priorities

— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) August 15, 2016

Dr. Jill Stein: Green Party candidate for president. Presumably the "Dr." before her name indicates some minimum level of education and the ability to think logically. But these two ideas are completely unrelated, unless her plan is to use taxes to subsidize the minimum wage. Which wouldn't surprise me at all. Or maybe she thinks that the U.S. corporate tax rate is too high? No...I don't think so.

It's unacceptable that we have spent $700B on the endless war in Afghanistan, but are told that we cannot drink red wine with fish."

That's better....

And tangentially related, Oregon State University now mandates "Social Justice" training for freshmen. even though the "chief diversity officer" can't even define the term: Asked how Oregon State defines social justice, Batista said that is also a work in progress.

Luckily the stoners over at Reason are on it....

"Students are no longer merely required to grapple with leftist ideas in the classroom -- they increasingly must live, sweat, and breathe 'oppression studies,'" Soave wrote. "It is no wonder that so many of them have developed a healthy disrespect for the principles of the First Amendment. They are being trained -- not taught, but trained -- to think everything that offends them is a bias incident."

posted by Open Blogger at 05:23 PM

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