Entry #1: Don't give delicious 16 cent donut hole treats to babies, or else you'll be fired for "theft." Right, for a 16 cent Timbit (or Munchkins) you get to explain to your unemployment office why your generosity and your fledgling career was struck down by an overzealous manager, who likely has an exact count of every single Timbit in the inventory, including the size and the time the frosting was put on. Good news: she was rehired, but likely Tim Horton's gave the manager a dress-down, which likely went like this: "She gave the baby a freakin' Timbit! We can cover that measly 16 cents in the time it takes for you to go to the john!"
Entry #2: Don't read "Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan" by Todd Tucker, in which Notre Dame students beat the living snot out of the KKK, when in the presence of "affirmative action" officers with a hair-trigger sensitivity. This leads me to wonder: would it have been OK to read adult magazines in public instead of a book that emphasizes teamwork against naked racial hatred? Were I a professor, not only would I assign the book, I'd make sure these college kids read it during summer vacation.
Note to the "Affirmative Action" meddling dingbat: is it any wonder why people roll their eyes and put "diversity" in quotation marks? Many other "affirmative action" officers would recommend several other books along that line, and they wouldn't carry their title with such aggressive seriousness. And why did it take the ACLU, FIRE and several news agencies to make the university drop this? Answer: no one wants their college to be labeled a cauldron for academic Stalinism.
5/07/2008
If you're planning on making comments, please read below...
I set the comments so I have a chance to review them before I post them. I reject posts out of hand when they seem spam-like, don't make sense, attack other posters (rarely me), engage in long "is too! is not!" arguments, or seem really "fishy". "Anonymous" posters get double-secret probation because I'm not sure if they're legit or they're trying to jam up the comments board with verbal bovine effluvia - as in one post I had rejected flat out because they decided to key-word and link-farm their entry to the hilt.
It also means I have to exercise some benevolent censorship; one person's well reasoned comment is fine; a five-page manifesto on why Alfred E Neuman should be elevated to King of America is not. Those of you who do follow the rules are not affected - at least you have the common sense not to test your BS skills on the comments board
If it gets out of hand, COMMENTS WILL BE DISABLED.
It also means I have to exercise some benevolent censorship; one person's well reasoned comment is fine; a five-page manifesto on why Alfred E Neuman should be elevated to King of America is not. Those of you who do follow the rules are not affected - at least you have the common sense not to test your BS skills on the comments board
If it gets out of hand, COMMENTS WILL BE DISABLED.
4/28/2008
An analogy...
Malcolm X : The Honorable Elijah Mohammed : : Barack Obama : Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Somehow I thought of this after remembering the excellent (if long) Malcolm X by Spike Lee. At least somewhere along the line, Obama may have an epiphany.
Somehow I thought of this after remembering the excellent (if long) Malcolm X by Spike Lee. At least somewhere along the line, Obama may have an epiphany.
4/27/2008
Сняло JR?*
Interesting article on how Dallas, with JR Ewing as the ultimate capitalist, ended the Cold War.
When the public under Communist rule saw that America wasn't the evil empire its leaders purported to be, they figured, "Hey, JR Ewing is an SOB, but at least the SOB doesn't put people in the gulag - and he doesn't have a secret police force watching our every move!"
* Who shot JR?
When the public under Communist rule saw that America wasn't the evil empire its leaders purported to be, they figured, "Hey, JR Ewing is an SOB, but at least the SOB doesn't put people in the gulag - and he doesn't have a secret police force watching our every move!"
* Who shot JR?
4/26/2008
Putting people first
Another thought on Earth Day, from the Great White North.
Summary: when teachers scream at full-throat that learning multiplication tables is "dull, rote learning," then what the hell is screaming slogans about "saving the planet" and "reducing your carbon footprint?"
And I wonder why these same kids, when they reach college, are so underprepared that half of their freshman year is spent in remedial learning - you know, the lessons the idiot teacher should have prepared but was too busy watching An Inconvenient Truth for the eighteenth time.
And kudos to the first smart high school kid who says, "I think your statistics are hogwash, and you don't deserve the union-mandated salary to teach this environmental Inquisition. I'd like to learn the law of Cosines and Shakespeare, not the Gospel According to Al Gore and his Marxist buddies."
Summary: when teachers scream at full-throat that learning multiplication tables is "dull, rote learning," then what the hell is screaming slogans about "saving the planet" and "reducing your carbon footprint?"
And I wonder why these same kids, when they reach college, are so underprepared that half of their freshman year is spent in remedial learning - you know, the lessons the idiot teacher should have prepared but was too busy watching An Inconvenient Truth for the eighteenth time.
And kudos to the first smart high school kid who says, "I think your statistics are hogwash, and you don't deserve the union-mandated salary to teach this environmental Inquisition. I'd like to learn the law of Cosines and Shakespeare, not the Gospel According to Al Gore and his Marxist buddies."
4/24/2008
Don Gillis 1922-2008
Don Gillis, former sports director for the WHDH (when it was Boston's CBS affiliate until 1972)/WCVB (an ABC affiliate since then) and host of Candlepin Bowling on Saturdays, passed away at the age of 85.
Candelpin Bowling was a staple at my grandparent's house, as every Saturday afternoon my grandmother would be serving my grandfather lunch, and he'd dip his sandwich into his tea. My uncle also bowled on Candlepin Bowling back in the eighties, against Hugh Ferguson, and I can also remember as clear as yesterday Tom Olzsta rolling four consecutive strikes.
No word yet if the pallbearers will be in a half-Worcester formation, but Don would certainly laugh at it if he did.
UPDATE: Joe Fitzgerald from the Boston Herald details Gillis' service in the Navy, and was there the day the Japanese surrendered and ended World War II.
Candelpin Bowling was a staple at my grandparent's house, as every Saturday afternoon my grandmother would be serving my grandfather lunch, and he'd dip his sandwich into his tea. My uncle also bowled on Candlepin Bowling back in the eighties, against Hugh Ferguson, and I can also remember as clear as yesterday Tom Olzsta rolling four consecutive strikes.
No word yet if the pallbearers will be in a half-Worcester formation, but Don would certainly laugh at it if he did.
UPDATE: Joe Fitzgerald from the Boston Herald details Gillis' service in the Navy, and was there the day the Japanese surrendered and ended World War II.
A solid analysis of how taxes work
This article from CNN Money/Fortune is a straight-ahead (i.e. bias-free) observation on who pays what in taxes, based on wealth.
All I have to say is, "Better not show this to Congress...or maybe Congress knows this and would get clobbered if the public knew the truth!"
All I have to say is, "Better not show this to Congress...or maybe Congress knows this and would get clobbered if the public knew the truth!"
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