tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post2599219368864585569..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: You read it here lastAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-13688367518885749342013-05-01T15:54:53.159+01:002013-05-01T15:54:53.159+01:00EYaw, it is pretty chicken-shit, pretty "mora...EYaw, it is pretty chicken-shit, pretty "morally inferior" to pick on dumb-fucks. Brass tacks, ones and zeros it's bullying. Nerd Bullies, but bullies never-the-less.<br /><br />The verbal (and physical) abuse I have suffered is moot in the generally accepted venicular.<br /><br />No fear.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-47661716046868566212013-05-01T15:43:09.574+01:002013-05-01T15:43:09.574+01:00The Infidel of the Roundup over @ Crooks & Lia...The Infidel of the Roundup over @ Crooks & Liars this morning links to a BQ Brew look at the corporate colonization of public schools. Floyd, of Pink, called that ball.<br /><br />Viewed from this mountaintop it's all really rather humorous.<br /><br />No fear.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-76490973070891103072013-04-30T07:35:03.926+01:002013-04-30T07:35:03.926+01:00Funny! Worth reading just for the opening sentenc...Funny! Worth reading just for the opening sentence.<br /><br /><i>Matthew Yglesias—a Norelco marketing experiment to see if a hand-drawn Sharpie beard on a peeled potato could sell men's earrings—wrote a morally and intellectually odious article at his second job yesterday. His Slate column, "Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That's OK," addressed the deaths of 161 workers in a factory collapse in Bangladesh with the tone they so richly deserved: bored.</i><br /><br />First time I've seen that site. Thanks for the link.<br />ksixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15406854618914127269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-72451079017633092132013-04-30T04:11:52.704+01:002013-04-30T04:11:52.704+01:00Waterboarding for Jesus: An Open Letter actually s...<a href="http://welcomebacktopottersville.blogspot.com/2013/04/holy-waterboarding-for-jesus.html" rel="nofollow">Waterboarding for Jesus</a>: An Open Letter actually sent.jurassicporkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673461210301442978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-46907955131320852532013-04-29T23:56:34.179+01:002013-04-29T23:56:34.179+01:00Re: Yglesias -- Inside the Beltway is also inside ...Re: Yglesias -- Inside the Beltway is also inside the biggest imperial war-making machine on the planet. You can see why liberals start to feel they have to sound "tough-minded" to even be heard in such a place, but it's still ugly to see. "Our lives are worth more than your lives" -- pretty much sums up imperialism.Peter Patauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15791464275398693662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-19728971298486047702013-04-29T22:05:58.237+01:002013-04-29T22:05:58.237+01:00Re: Matty Y
~<a href="http://www.mrdestructo.com/2013/04/destructo-salon-does-matthew-yglesias.html" rel="nofollow">Re: Matty Y</a><br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-1878539230429483112013-04-29T21:45:14.128+01:002013-04-29T21:45:14.128+01:00"sexism in general is still so pervasive, so ..."sexism in general is still so pervasive, so accepted, that it isn't worth the ink"<br /><br />Well, I've got some ink to show how sexist our society is. For instance, even though men are only 56% of victims of violent crime, and 80% of victims of murder, some people didn't see the need for the Violence Against Women Act to be passed a second time! Despite the fact that an American woman's average life expectancy is only five years longer than a man's, there are multiple federal agencies for women's health but none for men's! And a mere 57% of US college students are women, compared to a whopping 43% who are men!Notorious P.A.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03116305567552784744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-47437700790261081582013-04-29T07:03:31.790+01:002013-04-29T07:03:31.790+01:00And much as I know that it's very satisfying t...<i>And much as I know that it's very satisfying to see headlines about a "study" that says something about how conservatives are intellectually or morally inferior to liberals, I can't help feeling that it's juvenile to harp on it and maybe a bit stupid to be suckered by this kind of categorization.</i><br /><br />Thank you.ksixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15406854618914127269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-66202305176440687982013-04-29T06:15:05.630+01:002013-04-29T06:15:05.630+01:00Link to Iain Banks doesn't work.
That articl...Link to Iain Banks doesn't work. <br /><br />That article by Yglesias was simply weird. Sure, Bangladesh is poorer than the US and will have inferior physical plant. But most safety is free, the result of good planning and proper training rather than capital investment. <br /><br />What Bangladesh--not to mention the US--needs is greater worker power. That ultimately flows from an excess of demand for, over supply of, labor. Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04761044906837521471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-3944826242598384222013-04-29T02:06:25.603+01:002013-04-29T02:06:25.603+01:00The graphic nicely sums up why I no longer "t...The graphic nicely sums up why I no longer "teach". Though I do have "students".<br /><br />Our schools don't teach, they indoctrinate. We don't graduate critical thinkers, we certify drones sufficiently literate to perform the task at hand yet just braindead enough not to question why, or what are the consequences upon the seventh generation. As a retired college instructor I indict not only the K12, but the entire system, which today joins the church and pornography, joins seemingly innocuous community organizationes and the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox/CNN Kool-Aid as the third leg of the Corporatist (Fascist) domination of the masses.<br /><br />Somewhere out there Goebbels and his buddies are rolling on the floor laughing their asses off.<br /><br />No fear.<br /><br />Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-67986051617061499682013-04-28T23:35:59.621+01:002013-04-28T23:35:59.621+01:00On Matt Yglesias and the other centrist sociopaths...On Matt Yglesias and the other centrist sociopaths -- I wonder when they'll discover <a href="http://www.art-bin.com/art/omodest.html" rel="nofollow">this great economic plan</a> developed by Jonathon Swift in the 18th century. There just wasn't real support for its implementation back then, but if it were published today, our economic and political establishment would hail it as bold new thinking that the silly left should quit being all moralistic about.nihil obstethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02336022385130880362noreply@blogger.com