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Entry: Neocons and the Left: Know Your Enemies Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/neocons_and_the_left_know_your_enemies#2552 Post contents: "Kevin" has not read what I wrote very carefully. Rather than having "resented [my] early childhood when [I ] had to share a classroom with the 'average' and 'mentally deficient,' I am grateful that early IQ testing accelerated my education and enabled me to graduate from high school at 16 and from college at 19. As for whether my "genius was once or continues to be unrecognized," genius is one thing I have never claimed - but I'm glad my gifts, such as they were, WERE recognized when they were. Boastfulness is distasteful, but let's just say that since completing my education a couple of years sooner than average, I've been successful to an extent that confiscatory income and estate taxes are among my concerns. Unfortunately, "educrats, therapists, and other officials of the Nanny State" do not take much cognizance of the gifted today. It's politically incorrect. Grade-skipping, as employed in my case in the 'fifties, is not often done now. The formulae by which federal and state financial aids to local public schools are distributed positively discourage it, because they are based on the number of pupils attending school and the numbers of days they have attended. Allowing a bright student to finish school earlier accordingly takes money away from a public school district. The gifted, accordingly, get short shrift; there is very seldom any educational accommodation specific to them. On the other hand, there is a positive incentive to classify pupils as mentally or physically handicapped, because this results in the receipt of extra subsidies for "special" education. Then there is the "attention disorder" fraud, by which many boys ("ADD" kids are very seldom girls) are doped into a docile trance by the use of drugs, when all that most of them need is teaching techniques and discipline that is suited to them. "One size fits all" is not an appropriate maxim by which to provide education. On the subject of "American Catholicism's sodomitical clergy," all I'll say is that not to far from where I live, a pedophilic priest murdered two men that he thought were going to expose his molestation of numerous boys, and then compounded all of his previous sins by committing suicide. The truth came out after a protracted and careful police investigation. Local prelates have yet to make satisfactory amends to the families of the victims. A bit further to the east, the notorious theologically and politically liberal archbishop of Milwaukee, Rembert Weakland, was not too long ago forced to step down after the exposure of his ongoing homosexual liaison with a much younger man, whom I believe was also a priest. Perhaps the poster boy for clerical pedophilia was Paul Shanley, a diocesan priest in Boston. This worthy was once a favorite of the local media, a "hip" young cleric ministering to "street kids." With another queer clergyman he owned a "resort" in Key West for people of his sexual persuasion, at which "nude sunbathing" and other activities best left unmentioned went on. When the Vatican caught wind of this miscreant and complained to the Boston archdiocese, what did they do? They transferred him to other duties! In a just society he'd have been turned over to the secular arm, with the traditional admonition to "shed no blood." If these and the literally hundreds of other clerical persons - I hesitate to call them "men" - cannot be described accurately as "American Catholicism's sodomitical clergy," how, pray, should we describe them? It is small and overdue redress for the victims of their actions that the Vatican is finally taking action to root out the corruption of the past thirty or forty years; too late for the slain who lie in their graves just across the river from where I write this. Sent at: 2008 05 16