Conversation about elites running the country. And the LGBT.

ME: I think we should look at the academic inbreeding that happens in the Supreme Court nominations. There's a lot of Harvard and Yale alumni.
PERSON: Yea, but there's even more networking that happens on lower level courts.
ME: Okay, well I just looked up a couple of Court of Appeals and a vast  majority aren't from the Ivies.
PERSON: Stop denying there's networking being done.
ME: I'm sorta not since networking happens in business, academia, entertainment, family stuff etc. I'm pointing to a specific job and you're pointing to some underground New World that's happening on the lower level federal courts.

Discussion goes into "regular" people getting into politics.

PERSON: It makes it harder for regular people getting into the elites of politics. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sarah Palin (yuck).
ME: But Arnold was a celebrity before he was California's governor. What's up with Palin? Is she's the wrong type of Joe?
PERSON: Sarah Palin holds atrocious views on gay people and she's dumb as a brick wall! She is the wrong type of Joe and she's a joke!
ME: I'd be rich for every person under 35 saying X politician is horrid simply for the fact they do not support gay marriage or, even, fights back against its normalization. Rich. I'd also be rich for every person saying Palin is equally as dumb as GWB. Does it make it true? No. What's closer to the truth is that those who say such things have been listening to popular media and the MSM for far too long.
PERSON: #&@%
ME: Typical of your kind.

NOTE: When did the LGBT become the beloved dog of modernism? 

What non-Americans think of America's higher educational system.

When non-Americans comment on America's higher educational system these are the things that I've heard -

1. That their degree(s) cost 1/3 (or anything less than the amount the average America pays for a BA) of that of an American degree.

2. American graduate students are babied and that graduate students at say, Oxford, are treated with independence where a greater amount of maturity is expected.

3. If your degree isn't from the Ivy League, Stanford, University of Chicago or MIT it's crap.

These came from several Englishmen, an Australian and I believe some European from continental Europe. Of course, one of the Englishmen was the father of a Cambridge student and the Australian had a law degree, so go figure about the snot coming from their nose.

Axioms and math.

Militant atheist: "2 + 2 = 4" is not "absolute," but contingent on a set of axioms like ZFC. It's validity within such frameworks is absolute, though.

Militant's atheist political views are "very liberal" as he noted on his facebook page with this quote:

"I would describe myself as a communist, and I think most people I know would too. I am commonly asked why I behave as if the world around me were already (or were at least on its way to becoming) the world I wish it to be; to that I can only reply by pointing to this: "We need to be the change we wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi

Militant atheist graduate with an undergraduate degree in physics form Harvey Mudd College.