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It's That Time of the Year -- Yearbook Controversy
She should be more embarrassed that the picture in question was for the pottery club. HaHa.— May 18, 2009 11:53 p.m.
Paying Housewives
It often amazes me how human beings cling to their beliefs in spite of evidence and reasoning which should lead them to reconsider, but then I remember how humans cling to religion, and I'm reminded how many people just believe what they choose to believe, not because it makes sense or evidence supports it, but just because they want to.— May 12, 2009 7:17 p.m.
Paying Housewives
Josh has done a great job proving his point in these posts, which shouldn't even be necessary. You can figure this one out logically. In a free market people get paid what they're worth. If a woman is worth more than she's making she can ask for a raise or seek a new job, same as a guy. Many jobs have pay scales where everyone in a position makes the same. The jobs where your compensation is based on what you bring in to the company (sales, etc) it makes no sense for there to be discrimination, because a company would be hurting itself by not treating a productive woman the same as a man. The people who cling to this belief of disparity in spite of logic are those with a particular world-view. They see a difference in outcomes as proof of a difference in opportunity. It is not. This country does not promise equal rewards. It promises equal opportunity. What you do with it is up to you.— May 11, 2009 11:27 p.m.
From Preps to Pros
I just came across this. I'll use it to illustrate my point. The AP (4/28, Tanner) reports, "Children on medicine for attention deficit disorder scored higher on academic tests than their unmedicated peers in the first large, long-term study suggesting this kind of benefit from the widely used drugs." Lead author Richard Scheffler, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Public Health, and colleagues, examined "several standardized math and reading" results of "nearly 600 children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...from kindergarten through fifth grade." They found that "compared with unmedicated kids, average scores for medicated children were almost three points higher in math and more than five points higher in reading." According to the researchers, that "difference amounts to about three months ahead in reading and two months in math." Meanwhile, "both groups had lower scores on average than a separate group of children without ADHD." So kids born without ADHD are better students than those born with it, but those born with it do better if medicated to lessen it's effects in the classroom. IT'S BIOLOGY.— April 28, 2009 6:03 p.m.
The Movie Blog
SDaniels you must LOVE Duncan.— April 28, 2009 5:50 p.m.
The Movie Blog
Josh, most of your overrated movies are better than every one of your underrated movies, except Frantic and Crash, but Frantic wasn't even that well reviewed. Crash was hollywood-version-of-reality crap. Rushmore was overrated. Vanilla sky was underrated. Unbreakable and Boiler Room were pretty good. But what your list really shows is people have different tastes. For instance I thought Fight Club was brilliant. People don't even get how good that movie is because they don't get some of what it's saying. But other people hate that movie. Terminator (the first) is another movie that's better than people realize. There's more to it than a sci-fi/action movie. It's funny to ask people their favorite movies. The responses will make your jaw drop.— April 28, 2009 5:46 p.m.
From Preps to Pros
Lallaw said "Look you have to agree that the quality of education in poorer neighborhoods is far less than in more affluent neighborhoods". No I don't. This is an example of one of the universally accepted truths of our society that is crap, along with any other attempt to explain away differences in achievement as environmental. Here's the truth no one will tell you, and most won't believe anyway. NOTHING IS ENVIRONMENT - EVERYTHING IS BIOLOGY. People achieve to the level of their ability. Smarter parents generally have smarter kids, not because they emphasize the importance of school or make their kids do their homework, but because they're smarter. Smarter kids do better on tests, better in college, and better in life. Test scores of schools in the ghetto don't suck because there is sonething wrong with the school, they suck because they're full of crappy students. I'm a big believer in the value of education, but the fact is, some people are more prepared to reap the rewards of an education than others. If a kid can go make a mil by dropping out of HS, he should. He can always go back to finish his education. If he doesn't it's probably because he knows he's one of those guys not cut out for it. It's just funny how we in this society can't come to grips with the fact that everyone isn't the same. Some are tall, some short. Some fat, some skinny. Some smart, some dumb. Differences of outcome do not prove differences of opportunity. They do not prove bias. They prove - tah dah- that everyone is different.— April 28, 2009 5:29 p.m.
Police Officer Shootings
What all the liberal idiots need to realize is the cops do not get paid to kiss your ass, or even to be nice to you. They get paid to deal with the worst elements of society, so the rest of us don't have to. So if you give them an attitude when you have an encounter with them, they're probably not going to treat you very well. Drew, for instance. But this is why they deserve the benefit of the doubt. Because of the job they do, and the type of people they deal with every day. If you can't see the truth of this, then you probably are one of the people I'm talking about.— April 21, 2009 12:34 a.m.
Big Bottoms
I say we just put in bench seats and make everybody pay by the inch.— April 19, 2009 12:39 a.m.
Old People Driving (nails into their face)
I blame drive-thrus. They planted the seed.— April 15, 2009 8:31 p.m.