Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
From the very beginning, some six or seven years ago, I have made occasional reference to the “dispassionate but logical space alien living in our laundry room,” some kind of intelligent being capable of rational thought but entirely unacquainted with our culture, who is forced by circumstances to grapple with our customs by way of inductive and deductive reasoning instead of by gradually acclimating to them the way we do. I am not the first to ponder this by any means…well-known television shows have been doing it for years, for example, My Favorite Martian, I Dream of Jeannie, Mork & Mindy, Captain Caveman.
The idea is the same: We do not make enough sense to be explained. If someone stumbles across us and is forced to figure us out, as opposed to becoming gradually accustomed to us year by year, as we do when we interact from within — hilarity and hijinks ensue. This is worth commenting-upon, because the inexplicable goes well beyond the merely strange. Wearing wooden shoes is strange, but not inexplicable; I say “In Holland they used to carve shoes out of wood, because they have a lot of mud.” End of story. Makes sense. Strange but logical.
Not only are we beyond that, but some kind of acceleration seems to be taking place.
Posted by me on the Hello Kitty of Blogging (membership probably required for following the link):
Maybe, just to clear up my own thoughts about what’s going on in this culture & society we’ve got going, I should conduct a regular mental exercise just a few times per year, of: “If I were a caveman or ancient who was thawed out from a block of ice right now, or an alien who crashed on Earth right now, left to my own logical reasoning about what the rules must be, what would I conclude…”
On 6/20/12 it seems to be: First and foremost, we’ve got to make the women do things right. They can be pretty or they can have real power, but they can’t have both. Pretty women anchor the news on Fox, and that is all they can do. If they run for President or if they become Secretary of State, the rule is, no sane straight man should ever want to see them naked. If they have hair, they have to bowl-cut it or otherwise hide it.
Also, all women in movies with speaking lines, have to be played by Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Milla Jovovich, or someone else with a super-Americanized accent who weights a hundred pounds soaking wet.
Men, on the other hand, can be ugly trolls or cutie pies. They can have as much power as they want. Nobody cares.
Next: Money. Oh, where to begin with the money. Money is what people need in order to live…but not necessarily…nobody should have too much of it UNLESS — oh, this is tricky. Well, obviously if you’re George Soros or Warren Buffett you can have as much as you want and there’s no outrage. So it’s got something to do with being a proponent of higher tax rates, but you’re not required to actually *pay* the higher tax, you just have to vocally want to. Also, comedians and actors. If your name is well-known, it is just assumed that you should be worth a whole lot of money and this is somehow okay. Nobody else can have too much money, especially if they’re white, male, Republican, and running for President. But, while nobody else is allowed to have too much money, at the same time we’re all still required to give the money away, to help support those who never both to work for it.
If you graduate from college and find your skills aren’t worth a damn, it’s everybody else’s fault and you should “occupy” something. This has something to do with camping. And yelling. Camping and yelling, yelling and camping.
Businesses that need to advertise their products and services, to compel consumers to spend this money (they’re not allowed to have) on said products/services, should not talk about the decision to spend the money on the products/services…instead, they should talk about “going green,” supporting gay marriage, and “standing with the 99%” which has something to do with occupying. More than half the stuff advertised, I see, has something to do with green, gay, and occupying. So advertising, therefore, must have something to do with reciting a bunch of homilies about things, then people will buy your product with the money they’re not allowed to have — to find out what it does, or something.
Which brings me to the cars. Oh, Lordy, the cars, the cars. It is illegal and quite frowned-upon to use your phone while you’re driving…which is why everyone is doing it?? Everyone is complaining, with some justification, that there’s never enough room to park. It seems the cars are newer than the garages and parking spaces — people buying new cars with this money they’re not allowed to have too much of — and sometime in the last ten years, it has been popular to build, sell and buy really big cars. People are not in a hurry when they walk across the parking lot, but somehow once they climb the folding stepladder into these really huge cars and gun up the many, many horsepower in the engine of that lethal weapon, they act as if it’s their job to race across town and defuse a fucking nuclear bomb. While talking on the phone.
We have a separation-of-powers in our government and we hold our leaders to account. But you’re not allowed to ask them any questions.
We have separation of church and state. We’re pretty funny about this particular thing. We voted in our current President because He’s some kind of deity or something…whenever His face is on the cover of a magazine, there’s a digitally manufactured halo around His head so we can all remember He’s divine or some such thing, just like the dictator of any ol’ communist regime. The Supreme Court can rule that this school is, and that school is not, allowed to display the Ten Commandments. While displaying the Ten Commandments.
Radical Muslims can display whatever they want, whenever they want.
I am not to conclude this is because the radical Islamists are ready, willing and able to kill to advance their cause, and people are reacting out of fear…but…truth be told, I haven’t found any other explanation for the double standard.
Buying a gun is a surreal experience. I’m only allowed to buy certain brands and certain models. This is for safety reasons…I guess the kinds of guns I’m allowed to buy, won’t hurt anybody? Well, *that* certainly isn’t true. Nobody’s able to explain this. By which I mean, yes there are explanations, but the explanations all have to do with what someone else did, or thought, or said. Or signed. Nobody, anywhere, can produce the actual rationale.
Teachers are not allowed to teach kids. Spanking the kids when they’re out of line, yelling at the kids when they’re out of line, making the kids feel bad in any way when they’re out of line, this is not allowed. So the kids are expected to *decide*, as if they’re little adults, to follow the rules and absorb the lessons. If they don’t, then that’s a “learning disability” and they’re removed from the class. The only kids who can be mainstreamed, therefore, are what were called “apple polishers” and “brown nosers” back when I was frozen in that block of ice.
Even among their number, some have to be medicated to pay attention. After thirty seconds of the teacher’s lecture, they find it a bit tough. Huh, so did I, but nobody medicated me. Meanwhile, the curtain-climbers can play an online video game for ten hours straight, no problem.
I don’t know what to make of the illegal immigration thing, and I’ve pretty much given up on trying to figure it out. Apparently, it’s against the law, but it’s also against the law to enforce the law against this. In any way whatsoever, I mean. You can’t deport, you can’t ask for papers, you can’t put a law on the books that would require deportation or asking for papers, or would merely allow it…
You need to present photo ID to attend the First Lady’s book signing. But if you’re required to present photo ID before you can vote, that would be racist.
Come to think of it, I’m still working on figuring out what “racist” means. I suspect I’ve been mistaken for a long time on the real meaning of this word…seems to be sort of a “wildcard” word people pull out when they think they’re losing an argument.
This strange society seems to be some kind of “protest-ocracy,” by which I mean, when people think they’re part of the majority and they’re laboring under the tyranny of the minority they start protesting…then they insist on a vote…but there was this guy named Scott Walker who was supposed to have been recalled from office in a vote, and it turned out the “majority” was just a loud obnoxious minority, they got trampled when the matter was put to a vote. THEN they started whining like they were victimized somehow…for what reason, I do not know…and crying. Literally, crying. Oh, that’s another thing. The thing we used to call “manhood,” it’s in deep, deep trouble right now.
That last is a reference to the infamous Minnesota Mike interview:
Uff da.
As a possible explanation for what is happening, I linked the excellent Scott Adams blog entry about Creativity. Summary: Our brains require a certain amount of boredom just as a plant requires water, and thanks to these mobile devices we’re just not getting it. Creativity is a casualty of that.
Well, another thing that is sustained by boredom is the natural ability that goes along with being bored: Focus and alertness. This is why I sometimes call my son’s generation the “Not a single lifeguard worth a damn” generation. The specific talent that is being lost to the ages, is watching something…waiting for an event…and responding to the event with a behavior that is well organized and speedy. Kids can’t do that. There isn’t a lifeguard worth a damn under forty, or if there is then he’s a dying breed.
Nobody’s waiting for anything to happen; nobody’s ready for something to happen. Text, text, text, text.
Well, that could be part of it.
But I think another part of it is — and this does have overlap, certainly it has something to do with lifeguarding — we have become estranged from the idea of having a meaningful effect upon the outcome by way of an autonomous, individual decision & action. People still register the thought that something is taking place they don’t like; disliking comes easy. But it seems organizing some kind of protest, has become the default answer, and this is not overruled in favor of a different answer even in situations in which it promises very little benefit, and isn’t the least bit appropriate. The above-mentioned graduating from college and finding out you don’t have any skills that are worth a damn, for example. The youngsters start “occupying.”
That’s an underpants-gnome plan like nothing else is, you know. Step 1: We occupy! Step 2: ??????? Step 3: Jobs! (Or money or something.)
And, as I also noted above, manhood is suffering. Perhaps there’s a direct cause-and-effect relationship going on. Or perhaps there is a spurious relationship.
Perhaps it’s all explained by what I jotted down four years ago.
Perhaps it is getting better, but it might be getting worse. I have hope that it’s getting better. I’m afraid that might not be the case…
However, I do think it’s a self-correcting problem, whichever side of the slope we happen to be, er, occupying at the present time. I think it’s got something to do with lack of life’s-exigencies; I think our problem-solving skills are deteriorating, because the occasions that genuinely demand our deployment of these skills, are becoming infrequent. My hope is, this becomes a self-correcting problem because of the Stein Rule: That which cannot continue forever, won’t.
If your problem-solving skills are in a state of continual deterioration, you are going to have more problems, and the problems will endure — to the point where you’re going to have to nut up, and start re-fortifying your problem-solving skills. Then there will be some kind of reversal. Starting with, it’s okay for people to be rich and hang on to their money even if they’re not spoiled brat Hollywood actors…maybe continuing right up until it’s alright for America to have a female Secretary of State who looks as good in hot pants as Sarah Palin. Or, maybe the ugly women have to continue their irrational and unexplainable generations-long monopoly on powerful positions, but at least, some of the other stuff gets fixed. Maybe, given that we’re supposed to have a secular government, or a denomination-neutral one, we stop voting in phony deities. And grown men stop crying on live television…or at least, don’t brag about it openly while the mic is still on. We get rid of this notion of “safe guns.” Those would be good ones to fix.
The gun thing worries me most of all. By the time you actually get to the range, it is very important that anyone who so much as touches a gun, have a good, realistic idea of what is actually likely to cause a mishap, so they can avoid it. That’s, like, Rule Number One. Well, we’ve got these people running around thinking it’s the device, not the human behind it, causing all the trouble…and they’re making the fucking rules. When common sense says, their misconception is so great, and fails such basic competency tests, that it should disqualify them from entering the front gate of said range. If we have to fix one before we fix any of the others, I’d vote for that one. I can wait awhile longer for the woman who has real power & fantastic looking legs. Let’s stop people from getting hurt & killed first.
Cross-posted at Right Wing News and Washington Rebel.
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When common sense says, their misconception is so great, and fails such basic competency tests, that it should disqualify them from entering the front gate of said range. If we have to fix one before we fix any of the others, I’d vote for that one.
My friend, I give you the Dunning-Kruger Effect:
Stupid people don’t realize how stupid they really are, because they’re stupid. This fools them into believing they’re smart.
Smart people, on the other hand, assume everyone else is also relatively intelligent, and therefore processes information in roughly equivalent ways. This makes them more inclined to take dumb people’s obviously dumb ideas seriously, since they simply don’t realize how dim the dim really are.
[And there, come to think of it, is everything that’s wrong with modern liberalism. It’s a sort of meta-Dunning-Kruger Effect: They think — scratch that, they know — they’re smart, and therefore assume that everyone else processes information in the same way they do, and that anyone else is dumb. Thus their acceptance of obviously retarded notions like socialism becomes proof that they’re a) good people, for taking even idiots’ ideas into consideration, and b) smarter than you, because hey, if all us smart people take it seriously then it’s obviously got some merit to it…..]
- Severian | 06/20/2012 @ 08:44Funny thing is, I’ve been accused of suffering from the DK effect more than my share of times. Ed Darrell is particularly fond of slinging this one around, and I’ve called out repeatedly the unbroken pattern of what might be called “outcome based competency testing” — no way can you possibly know anything about anything if you don’t agree with Ed & crew…about everything…and, among those who do so agree, well not that they’re necessarily all-knowing savants or some such, but certainly their intellect can never be derogated. So Peggy “Obama gonna put gas in my car” must know more about what she’s saying than Thomas Sowell or Charles Krauthammer.
Interestingly, “patient zero” of the DK effect was a bank robber who’d read somewhere that, if you smear lemon juice on your face, the cameras can’t record your image. He in fact *did* test this out before robbing the bank. But his eyes smarted so much from the juice, that he didn’t aim the camera at himself right, and when the image came back without his face on it he concluded this must work like a charm. So he showed up at the bank smelling like fruit, blinking his eyes, all ready to be hauled off to the pokey.
He read something someplace that sounded good and failed to give the theory a reasonable reality-based test…just like a proggie! So yeah, you’re probably right.
- mkfreeberg | 06/20/2012 @ 09:23Funny thing is, I’ve been accused of suffering from the DK effect more than my share of times
I’m not sure who this Ed Darrell guy is, but he sounds like a pretty typical leftist. You know, the kind of guy who accuses you of being an idiot today for not believing X, but when the new talking point comes down tomorrow about Y, calls you an idiot for not believing that.
I’m not sure what that’s called — narcissism, reaction formation, being a shameless hypocritical hack — but it’s not Dunning-Kruger.
[Actually, I suppose it’s yet one more example of the Left’s binary state (the Leftist BS, if you will) — many conservatives will, however begrudgingly, concede the intelligence (IQ-wise, at least) of certain leftists, but I have never heard a lefty concede anything about the brainpower of any living conservative. The closest I’ve ever heard was posthumous praise of long-dead conservatives (William F. Buckley and newfound progressive hero Ronald Reagan come to mind), or this curious hedge thing they do where they say something like “Tom Sowell’s a bright guy, of course, but in this particular case he simply doesn’t know what he’s talking about”….. where “this particular case” is, you know, economics, a field in which he has a PhD and decades of professional experience.
You either have all the brains, or none, according to your political opinions, in other words.
And yet we’re the dull, dogmatic ones.
Yeah. Dunning-Kruger indeed.]
- Severian | 06/20/2012 @ 14:15If you graduate from college and find your skills aren’t worth a damn, it’s everybody else’s fault and you should “occupy” something. This has something to do with camping. And yelling. Camping and yelling, yelling and camping.
In all fairness if you paid $20,000 dollars for something and then found out that, contrary to what everyone in the shop told you, it wasn’t worth shit, you’d do a little “camping and yelling” yourself.
- rhjunior | 06/20/2012 @ 21:25If you graduate from college and find your skills aren’t worth a damn, it’s everybody else’s fault and you should “occupy” something. This has something to do with camping. And yelling. Camping and yelling, yelling and camping.
Has it occurred to any of them to ask themselves why this behavior would make any responsible person who’s in a position to do so, actually WANT to offer one of them a job?
Buying a gun is a surreal experience. I’m only allowed to buy certain brands and certain models. This is for safety reasons…I guess the kinds of guns I’m allowed to buy, won’t hurt anybody? Well, *that* certainly isn’t true. Nobody’s able to explain this.
Nor is anyone able to explain why other US citizens, who live in other states, some of which contain cities larger than the city I live in – citizens who are just like me in every conceivable way other than our DNA – can legally access all sorts of “brands and models” (and configurations – .50 BMG caliber, 30 round magazine, no bullet button, pistol grip, thumbhole stock, etc) that would be a serious crime for me to merely possess. And yet, strangely, blood is not flowing in the streets in those places; some of them are actually safer and less violent than my city and state.
Nor is anyone able to explain how disarming the law-abiding – or artificially restricting their available choice of weapon to a small subset of those available elsewhere in the US – makes us safer.
Well, another thing that is sustained by boredom is the natural ability that goes along with being bored: Focus and alertness. This is why I sometimes call my son’s generation the “Not a single lifeguard worth a damn” generation. The specific talent that is being lost to the ages, is watching something…waiting for an event…and responding to the event with a behavior that is well organized and speedy. Kids can’t do that.
“Kids” can’t do that?
Neither can adults, including me, and I’m creeping up on 40. I can’t tell you how maddening it is to go hunting – a sport that requires to remain silent & motionless – and alert – for hours at a time…and have enormous difficulty doing so. I’m so used to being stimulated and entertained from one moment to the next that when that stimulation is gone and I’m sitting in the wilderness looking for wild animals to shoot at, I cannot go more than 30 seconds without my mind wandering…even as I scan the terrain with my binoculars. No wonder I haven’t bagged anything, despite several years of trying.
I can only imagine how much harder it must be for the younger generations. Mine only grew up with arcade games, 13 TV channels, and the Atari 2600. Nobody had heard of smart phones, texting, or PlayStation back then.
- cylarz | 06/20/2012 @ 22:00In all fairness if you paid $20,000 dollars for something and then found out that, contrary to what everyone in the shop told you, it wasn’t worth shit, you’d do a little “camping and yelling” yourself.
Actually, the first thing I’d do is ask myself why I hadn’t bothered to research labor market information, prior to choosing a school and picking a major. I wouldn’t assume that I’d made the right choices, or that the business world was simply too stupid to recognize my genius and potential now that I’d graduated.
I certainly wouldn’t presume that my education made me exempt from the economic laws of supply and demand that govern…well, pretty much everything else that is bought and sold. The people who are “occupying” things need to look in the mirror if they want someone to blame. (And for that matter, I always found it amusing that the Occupy crowd can’t see that our rotten economy, is a direct result of the policy decisions made by the very people they helped elect.)
- cylarz | 06/20/2012 @ 22:09In all fairness if you paid $20,000 dollars for something and then found out that, contrary to what everyone in the shop told you, it wasn’t worth shit, you’d do a little “camping and yelling” yourself.
Speaking as one who went the non-STEM route with clear eyes (hey, I suck at math, what else was I going to do?), I’d like to know just who is out there telling people “no, it’s cool, there are loads of opportunities out there for interpretive dance majors.” More to the point, I’d like to know who really believes this. I know there are some very naive 18-year-olds out there, but c’mon, man…..
One of the biggest elephants in Occupy’s living room is that all these interpretive dance and art history majors are, quite simply, the kind of people who can afford to major in that kind of thing. I’ll bet an Occutard’s trust fund that you’ll never find a first-generation scholarship student majoring in poetry or wymyn’s studies (“diversity” hires obviously excepted) — they’re all down in the chem lab. Similarly, you don’t see too many blue collar kids getting their PhDs in Protest Studies — your aspiring non-STEM PhD is most often the child of two other non-STEM PhDs.
These people look at money like the rest of us look at oxygen — it’s kinda just there, and we have no reason to suspect it won’t just kinda be there tomorrow. They’re the kind of people who think a summer interning for a gitchy-goo nonprofit in order to pad their college apps is some kind of actual work. You know, just like the blue-collar lunch pail guys do to put food on the table.
Nobody’s lying to anybody — there’s just such a thick, warm, blubbery layer of Daddy’s money insulating everything that it’s tough to look at the world in any but the most approximate way.
- Severian | 06/21/2012 @ 06:46Please.
1)You and I are both fully aware that not every person out there is an “underwater basket-weaving major.”
2)It wasn’t just the ones who went out and went OWS who’ve been sold a bill of goods.
3)Regardless of whether you can “afford” it or not, getting screwed for an average of $20,000 is still getting screwed.
The ones doing the screwing weren’t passive actors in this scenario either. These two-bit snake oil salesmen have been selling the college diploma as the ultimate cure-all… enlightens the mind, broadens the horizon, expands the options, improves the future. Moreover there was a dedicated effort— through popular media and the public education system— to install a panic in the populace that without this fabulous palliative, they would fail at everything, fall to consumption and die. Then after the panic was chronic, they raised the price four hundred percent, and kept right on selling.
There have been constant messages sent out to the young since I was a kid, clear back in the 70s and 80s; “Follow your passion,” “Get a college degree NO MATTER WHAT,” and “You don’t want to end up flipping burgers, do you?” Note: IT WAS NOT THE OWSERS WHO WERE PUMPING THIS MESSAGE. It was the ADULTS who were pumping this bilge. Three entire generations— my parent’s generation, my generation, this current generation— followed this advice. Now you have people with degrees in engineering fighting for a job bussing tables, and if they dare complain that it’s not enough to pay the ruinous cost of their college debt, some asshat is standing there busting a gut saying “you dumb kid! You actually believed us? Why didn’t you get a degree in something practical?* ”
We used to tar and feather such shysters and ride them out of town on a rail.
*Note: definition of the term “practical degree” will be altered on a frequent and irregular basis, without notification and/or warning. Generally after you have spent 4 years and enough to buy a small house.
- rhjunior | 06/21/2012 @ 15:361)You and I are both fully aware that not every person out there is an “underwater basket-weaving major.”
No, but many were. Many others have chosen to go into so-called practical fields that are simply already saturated. The market can only support so many geologists.
2)It wasn’t just the ones who went out and went OWS who’ve been sold a bill of goods.
No, but they ARE the ones rioting in the streets and who seem to have the attitude that the world “owes” them something now that they’ve completed college.
3)Regardless of whether you can “afford” it or not, getting screwed for an average of $20,000 is still getting screwed.
If you’re suggesting that it’s asinine that tuition has increased four-fold in only twenty years or so, you’ll get no argument from me. What I find interesting is that every time more federal student aid becomes available. colleges promptly raise tuition so that students are right back to where they were before – barely able to afford schooling. Worse, much of that “aid” is simply low-interest loans…which must be paid back. It’s getting to the point where students will be paying on these loans until retirement age. Big Education is getting to be a big racket, even as the degrees themselves become more and more worthless in the job market.
The ones doing the screwing weren’t passive actors in this scenario either. These two-bit snake oil salesmen have been selling the college diploma as the ultimate cure-all…
It sounds like you’re around the same age I am. I heard the same speeches.
It’s starting seem like that times are changing, however. I don’t remember there being private vocational schools on every corner, marketing themselves as an alternative to traditional college. Now, there they are.
Now you have people with degrees in engineering fighting for a job bussing tables, and if they dare complain that it’s not enough to pay the ruinous cost of their college debt…
Maybe our socialist president, his cronies, and runaway immigration might bear some responsibility for this part. I don’t remember it being like this back in 2003, do you?
, some asshat is standing there busting a gut saying “you dumb kid! You actually believed us? Why didn’t you get a degree in something practical?* ”
Getting a degree in “something practical” still isn’t a guarantee of a good job after graduation. Like I said, a person needs to study labor market information beforehand.
We used to tar and feather such shysters and ride them out of town on a rail.
When WAS that, now that you mention it?
*Note: definition of the term “practical degree” will be altered on a frequent and irregular basis, without notification and/or warning.
Labor market research. Labor market research. Labor market research. It’s the student’s responsibility.
Generally after you have spent 4 years and enough to buy a small house.
You’ve never heard of changing your major? I changed mine four times…
- cylarz | 06/21/2012 @ 18:21some asshat is standing there busting a gut saying “you dumb kid! You actually believed us? Why didn’t you get a degree in something practical?*
I guess I’m one of those asshats, because I say this all the time… to myself.
I agree, though, that “a college degree” has long been [marketed as] synonymous with “a ticket to the middle class.” Which it might have been, once… in the Fifties… or the Forties…. or pick your arcadia of choice. When you find out it’s not, though, you have one of two options: Either 1) get a job in some unrelated field, no matter how “demeaning” this is (“I wrote the best senior thesis on left-handed lesbian paraplegic chicana midwives in the history of Bong State! Why should I have to answer phones for Omnicorp?!”), or 2) camp out and yell and hold singalongs and poop on police cars.
The liberal arts do expand your mind. You’ll find no stauncher defender of the traditional curriculum than I (if more people studied basic 20th century history, for example, the Democratic party would cease to exist, because folks would see that socialism doesn’t fucking work. But that’s a rant for another day). So, yeah — pursue that degree in Hemophiliac Hermaphrodite Studies. It’ll make you a better-rounded person (and probably the all-time champ at bar trivia night). But don’t expect to have a job in that particular field waiting for you.
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