A Really Stupid Way to Waste $10
A post from Monday's "Corner":
TAKE THE NRO SAWBUCK CHALLENGE [Jack Fowler]
We want you to help NR put an entire high school on the right path, and it will only cost a sawbuck. That’s right: For $10 we’ll send a high school college-guidance office a copy of the special NR edition of Choosing the Right College, America’s premier college guide. Bursting with analysis of 125 top U.S. colleges and universities, this massive book (nearly 1,000 pages!) tells which schools meet our high standards; advises prospective students about which courses and profs to take--and which to avoid!--at major state universities; gives the real skinny on Ivy League institutions, the “Seven Sisters,” and other elite schools; and so very much more.
No kid seriously considering higher ed should do such without this phenomenal book. Indeed, one copy of Choosing the Right College in one high school will help scores of kids make the right choice. Imagine copies of Choosing the Right College in 5,000 high schools! Talk about a revolution!
Imagine millions of high school kids taking orders from National Review about which schools to attend, which classes to take, and which professors to avoid. And imagine these students becoming NR's unholy, unthinking, zombie soldiers in a revolution to overthrown the United States and install William Buckley's brain as Supreme Overlord!
And that’s our goal:
I knew it!
to get this most important book into 5,000 high schools, influencing and helping hundreds of thousands of juniors and seniors find an excellent, traditional education. There’s nothing worse than seeing a bright kid come under the sway of ideological professors, with mom and dad dropping $150,000 so their upstanding teen becomes a liberal flying monkey after four years. If only they had had a book like Choosing the Right College to help them avoid that dreadful outcome!
Yes, it IS sad to see bright, upstanding kids from wingnut familes going off to college, learning to think, and becoming liberals. And worst of all, their parents pay good money to have their kids educated, and yet the kids aren't all becoming Young Republicans! If only there was some way to keep these youngsters from being exposed to these pernicious, addictive liberal ideas. Hey, I know -- brain implants that administer severe shocks to the kids' genitals if they have unapproved thoughts!
We want to stop that from happening--and we need you to help. [...]
Help change the world for the better by helping a kid make the right college decision. Choosing the Right College will help dozens of kids at a high school discover that there are indeed a number of solid conservative schools offering excellent educations (and it will warn them about the snares of liberal academics at other leading universities too!). In the end, we’ll all benefit.
Especially National Review.
Send your sawbucks to send Choosing the Right College. Do it here.
Posted at 08:57 AM
Now, from today's corner:
TRUE CONFESSIONS [Jack Fowler]
I’m a wee bit underwhelmed by the response to the “Sawbucks Challenge.”
People by the millions aren't giving National Review money for this project? I am shocked, SHOCKED!
I mean, conservatives constantly (and correctly) bellyache about good kids get force-fed liberalism on college campuses, and here’s a chance to give these kids a conservative alternative via Choosing the Right College, and … few seem to care. Posted at 10:24 AM
That's because while they may talk about good kids being force-fed liberalism, all they really care about is those sex scenes in I Am Charlotte Simmons.
But seriously, this really is a sad story: National Review has all these guides printed, and nobody wants to donate them to high school guidance counselors, who are no doubt pining for such tomes so they can help protect their students from new thoughts.
And because nobody is paying to send the guides to our country's high schools and private Christian academies, thousands and maybe millions of bright young people from conservative families are going to turn into liberal flying monkeys (which is like seeing Bullwinkle J. Moose go to college and come back as Rocky T. Squirrel).
This reminds of me of that old ad: "A conservative mind is a terrible thing to waste. Donate now to the 'Keep Our Kids Ignorant Foundation.'"
Anyway, speaking of Charlotte Simmons, Vigen Guroian does just that several times in his article for Christianity Today entitled 'Dorm Brothel' ("The new debauchery, and the colleges that let it happen"). I would hope that that the NR guide tells which colleges these are, because that way some students might find it useful after all.
Here's my favorite line from Vigen's piece:
Still, in most American college coed dorms, the flesh of our daughters is being served up daily like snack jerky.
As dermatologists warn, this is price you pay for spending too long in the tanning bed.
Okay, one more bit from Vigen:
I remember once hearing that the British lost the empire when they started sending their children away to boarding schools. I do not know whether anyone has ever seriously proposed that thesis. I am prepared, however, to ask whether America might not be lost because the great middle class was persuaded that they must send their children to college with no questions asked, when in fact this was the near-equivalent of committing their sons and daughters to one of the circles of Dante's Inferno.
Yes, Vigen is very prepared to ask this. Don't think he isn't!
And if it turns out that America loses our empire due to coed dorms, Vigen will have the satisfaction of saying, "I was prepared to ask about that very thing!"
Oh, and speaking some more about I Am Charlotte Simmons, guess who else is reading it for its sociological insights into how liberal colleges ruin good conservative kids?
Yes, President Bush!
Per Newsweek
Another popular misperception: that Bush doesn't read. [...] And he's not just poring over white papers. Friends and aides speak of his passion for novels, including Mark Mills's "Amagansett" (a murder mystery set in postwar Long Island), and Tom Wolfe's racy college tale "I Am Charlotte Simmons."
But of course the President is NOT reading it for those sex scenes and all the bad language. Hey, maybe George will give National Review $10! It could be part of the administration's ongoing plan to subsidize third-rate wingnuts.
P.S. I just noticed that at the bottom of Vigen's article there is a link to "What to Say at a Naked Party." Sadly, it's not as helpful as one might anticipate.
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Hi Ladies,