Inviting Me Off To An Irrationality 'Adventure'

 The problem in inviting me to be irrational or loony way of thinking....you assume that you can drag me up to your level, and I'll give you the signal of affirming your frame of mind. 

But why would I stop?  If I can be at your level of irrationality....why can't I pass it and go to twice the level  of irrationality?  

Why can't I identify as being naked....wherever I please?  Or, why can't I eat 16,000 calories a day and pretend to be healthy?  Or, why can't I identify as Dracula and suck blood out of people?

I see this whole discussion as reaching a stage where some 8-year old kid will demand to be released from school...because he identifies as being smart enough.  Or how about two 13-year-old kids marrying because they identify as 'ready'?  Or, why can't we sell whisky to 14-year old kids?  

There is some end-point to this irrationality 'game', but I doubt if we've even reached the half-way point yet. 

Watching The Biden Student-Loan Debt 'Drama'

 The Supreme Court laid out the only option....no, the President doesn't have powers to forgive $400-plus-billion of college loan debt.  

I have three suggestions there....to go forward:

1.  Set a index up on degree 'pay-back' (it wouldn't take more than a month of research by PhD folks to assemble the payscale for degrees and how they relate to your ability to pay back a loan).  Then let the kids know....x-degree will have a limit of $8,000 a year for loan activity, or perhaps $25,000 a year.  

Personally, unless you got a degree in science, engineering or law....I don't think you should consider more than $10,000 a year of debt.

2.  Require a debt management course at every single university that takes in students who borrow money.  8-hour situation.....all-day Saturday seminar (no test) and ensure they understand.....paying back $80,000 is a awful serious issue.

3.  Make public universities display the instructor to staff ratio.  Publish the actual cost summary of the college..  

The Family Woes

 This week, I came to this 'Dear Anne' question over a family situation.

To sum it up....this gal has a daughter who was getting married, and the woman has a brother who is a pro-Trump guy (I should note by the description.....he sounds like he's a successful businessman).

The daughter laid down the law.....the uncle could NOT come to the wedding (saying she felt unsafe, or fragile).  The mother had to explain to her brother....he wasn't invited.  I doubt if she said 'unsafe' or 'fragile'....it'd just make the irrational daughter look more stupid. 

After the wedding...the mother did send the brother a card with pictures of the wedding.  

Oddly enough....after mailing that....she hasn't heard from the brother, and also oddly enough....while it'd be typical in the past for him to write out a thousand-dollar check for wedding gifts.....this time, he did nothing. 

So we advance to the point where the mother is very disturbed over the brother (not the daughter or herself) and wants to let the brother know that he is upsetting/embarrassing her.  I should note as well....as family members found out about the whole story....they've been pretty negative on the mother.

I paused for several days after reading the piece.  It's about 30 lines and it's a pretty wild situation to lay out in public view.

I would imagine on a weekly basis....this scenario plays out at least fifty times in the nation, and is becoming fairly common.

Conservative folks geared up to forbid liberal relatives from attending family functions?  I would imagine there's some but when you say the word 'fragile'.....I would take a humble guess that 90-percent of folks are on the left side....not the right.   

How she'll end up confronting the brother?  She might try to make it for another year....but I doubt if the guy will get friendly around the Christmas holidays, and that will just make her more angry/frustrated.

The problem I see....this is almost cult-like....where you have to fence-off your boundary and refuse friends or relatives to be in the inner-circle.

Ripe material for a movie?  Yeah....some script-writer ought to be collecting material.....there's a five-star movie here.