The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Motivational speakers and televangelists are like talking lines of cocaine (from what I've heard). While they may temporarily make you feel good and believe that you can do anything, they often times lead to long-lasting negative effects. That leads me to motivational speaker Tony Robbins, who has gotten himself into some hot water with his recent comments regarding the #MeToo movement. When speaking to a crowd in San Jose, California, he made the following remarks: - "If you use the #MeToo movement to try to get significance and certainty by attacking and destroying someone else, you haven't grown an ounce. All you've done is basically use a drug called significance to make yourself feel good." - "I was with someone the other day. Very famous man, very powerful man. He's saying how stressed he is because he interviewed three people that day. One was a woman, two were men. The woman was better qualified, but she was very attractive, and he knew, ...

A YouTube clip was just released of a speech Lincoln University (PA) President Robert R. Jennings gave at the university's annual women-only convocation a month ago, which is causing quite the stir. During this controversial speech, Jennings made the following comments: - "We will use you up, if you allow us to use you up (referring to women). Well, guess what? When it comes time for us to make that final decision, we're going to go down the hall and marry that girl with the long dress on. That's one we're going to take home to mama." - "You know I'm right about it (about women making false rape accusations)." - "We have, we had, on this campus last semester three cases of young women who after having done whatever they did with the young men, and then it didn't turn out the way they wanted it to turn out -- guess what they did? They went to [the university's Department of] Public Safety and said, 'He raped me.'"...