House of Eratosthenes

Off-Topic But Related: I disagree with former Gov. Palin on that questionable word. I understand how it grates on the ears of those who have a close relationship with a special-needs child…

…but there are those of us who are parents of children who are not special-needs. Children who, nevertheless, ah…let us just say their communicative experiences with the academic world are not quite ideal. The cooked-up campfire-story made-up “learning disabilities”; if your kid is within three years or so in age of my kid, and he isn’t getting along with his teachers like gangbusters, you know what I’m talking about. We can’t call the kids inattentive or disobedient or bratty or ill-tempered or just plain mouthy, those options have all been eliminated. So we fall back on the phony-baloney learning disabilities.

Sorry, Sarah. If we’re manufacturing the goddamn things, we have to have some kind of a name we can call ’em.

Maybe it’s not quite so off-topic. In my mind’s-eye, I imagine this is the next issue to be pursued between “futureman” and the curious Eisenhower-era audience. Yeah that’s right fellas; we stigmatize against strength, and reward laziness and weakness. Then we wonder why our economy is in the shitter. I’ll bet you thought you’d already hear the worst of it, huh?

Hat tip to Linkiest.

Update: Since it’s my last night in town, my lady has taken a break from watching the gawdawful Extreme Makeover Home Edition bullshit so we can watch South Park, specifically The Snuke.

Those poor bastards in the photograph. When Future-man gets to the whole Clinton/Lewinsky thing, they’re all going to have a fucking aneurysm. I lived through it myself, and I still don’t get it.

He cheated on her — and then, the affair was dragged out in front of the entire country in lurid detail for over a year. When all was said and done, she was not only a sympathetic figure, but qualified to become a Senator representing a state with which she had practically no connection whatsoever…because she was a betrayed housewife. Just that and nothing more. That’s how sympathetic a figure she was.

But he was a sympathetic figure as well. Was, and is. Leader of the free world was simply unable to control his animal impulses. And got yelled at by his bitchy wife. We need to give him all the breaks we can.

If you don’t see what’s all cockeyed about this…well, hell. You thaw out some dude who was frozen in 1957, and explain it to him. See how that flies.

And then tweet it for me, with your breakfast.

Yeah, the whole “handicapped”, “disabled”, “hand-able” … sorry.

Yes, if you can’t walk, you’re handicapped. There is something you can’t do that the species is designed to be able to do. Doesn’t mean you can’t do anything, or that you’re not valuable. But you are handicapped.
- philmon | 04/02/2010 @ 13:22
Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Right. Even though that show does some great work, there’s much to criticize about it. First up would have to be Ty Pennington, easily the most annoying person on television after the Flo the Progressive chick. I hate the way he’s always hollering at people through that stupid megaphone of his. Every time he does, I’ve got this urge to grab it out of his hands, turn it around, scream at him through it at point-blank range…then throw the stupid thing as far as I can.

The show’s crew comes along and builds this big castle in a neighborhood filled with modest 1960’s tract homes. It’s like putting up a big neon sign stating, “Hey, burglars. Come break in here.”

And do you every wonder how the people getting all this free stuff from Ford and Sears and whatnot…manage to pay the insurance, taxes, and other maintenance costs on all that stuff when they were supposedly dirt poor when Ty’s crew arrived and shipped them all off to Disneyland? I’ll bet a lot of them would have preferred the cash equivalent and probably sell off as much of those items as they can before someone comes along and steals it all. And then there’s the tacky way that Ty’s staff decorates the rooms, and the way the show focuses too much on private single-family homes, and not enough on community centers, nonprofit group facilities, or something else that everyone could enjoy. Ugh, the list goes on and on.
- cylarz | 04/02/2010 @ 23:40

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