{"id":5494,"date":"2017-05-25T04:44:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T04:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/25\/of-snowflakes-and-library-fines\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T04:44:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T04:44:37","slug":"of-snowflakes-and-library-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/25\/of-snowflakes-and-library-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Snowflakes, Library Fines, and Wood Paneling"},"content":{"rendered":"

I cite yet another example<\/a> of liberal erosion of standards.  But that's to put it too mildly. Contemporary liberals have lost their minds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Harvard libraries will no longer charge 50 cent per day fees on overdue books.<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have witnessed firsthand the stress that overdue fines can cause for students,\u201d [Steven] Beardsley continued. \u201cEliminating standard overdue fines and standardizing loan periods across Harvard\u2019s libraries should help students focus on their scholarship, rather than worrying about renewing library books every 28 days in order to avoid fines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I'm not making this up. Click on the link and see for yourself. <\/span><\/p>\n

And did you know that wood paneling<\/a> is sexist and racist?<\/span><\/p>\n

As I have been saying for years, there is no idea so crazy that some liberal-left loon won't embrace it. These idiots do not need refutation; they need therapy.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the root of the problem is that liberals do not understand human nature. They do not understand that people are much more likely to behave properly under the influence of various incentives and disincentives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cite yet another example of liberal erosion of standards.  But that's to put it too mildly. Contemporary liberals have lost their minds. Harvard libraries will no longer charge 50 cent per day fees on overdue books. [. . .] \u201cWe have witnessed firsthand the stress that overdue fines can cause for students,\u201d [Steven] Beardsley … Continue reading “Of Snowflakes, Library Fines, and Wood Paneling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}