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...
Dr. Helen links to an interesting story about the U.S. Civil Rights Commission:
This week, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights announced that it will investigate whether colleges discriminate against women by admitting less qualified men. It will strike many as odd to think that American men would need such a leg up. From the men-only basketball games at the White House to the testosterone club on Wall Street, we seem surrounded by male dominance.
And yet, when looking to America’s future—trying to spot the future entrepreneurs and inventors—there’s reason to be troubled by the flagging academic performance among men. Nearly 58% of all those earning bachelor’s degrees are women. Graduate programs are headed in the same direction, and the gender gaps at community colleges—where 62% of those earning two-year degrees are female—are even wider.
Economists at both the Department of Education and the College Board agree that, to ensure high future earnings, men and women have an equal need for college degrees, and yet only women are getting that message. The numbers are startling. This summer the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University published the results of a study tracking the students who graduated from Boston Public Schools in 2007. Their conclusion: For every 167 females in four-year colleges, there were 100 males.
She comments,
Typically, I would not be for any type of affirmative action. I think people who are qualified, regardless of race and gender, should be admitted to these universities, end of story. But in today’s PC world, that is not possible. If we admit people based on their gender and race, then we must do it in an equitable way. Men should be represented at colleges in equal numbers to women since they comprise roughly half (a little less these days) of the population.
What do you think?
I disagree. I do see a silver lining here, but it’s a silly and comical one. All preferences look reasonable, at first, when they benefit you or some group with whom you sympathize.
But in the end, all preferences are the same. The antecedent action that made them appear to be part of some reasonable thing to do, or that “had to be done,” really doesn’t weigh into it that much.
Also, across lines of race, gender and creed — preferences do not heal divisions. Just from a vantage point of looking back on the last few decades, that whole belief was pretty stupid. That was an example of our “leaders” telling us that gasoline was the perfect agent for putting out a house fire.
Colleges shouldn’t be doing it; but once they do, we shouldn’t be having some commission investigating it. Anyone on the commission, or in the college, in favor of such a practice, regardless of what direction, should be treated just like someone trying to recruit for the KKK.
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Entrepreneurs and inventors never had any use for college even in the day when the bar was raised. All those women are in college now because they do not know what else to do, and are afraid not to be there. Vast new government employment is created to employ people in jobs that should not exist for voters who never should have been in college, taught by a vastly expanded bench of third-rate professors in a dumbed down or self-loathing cirriculum.
- xlibrl | 11/07/2009 @ 09:53In this environmnet, it is a good sign that men are avoiding college. No one who will actually benefit will fail to already be there.
I’m surprised that actually came from Dr. Helen’s keypad.
- CaptDMO | 11/07/2009 @ 11:48OK, Let’s see
1. Pronounce colleges as institutions of SOCIAL JUSTICE advancement. Let’s get rid of all this higher education and employment competence qualification nonsense.
2. Determine at what point Title IX is no longer primarily benificial for da minority of wimins , then abolish it, lest we be hoist by our own petard. (Kinda’ like Mass. “special” election laws, apparently concerning ONLY replacement of Democrats who abandon their posts.)
3. DAMN those “policies” that ultimately thin the heard, as well as the earning potential of remaining eligible meal tickets to attract. Even the jocks had potential as big ticket pro playa’s. DAMN Title IX!
I know, Let’s make lesbian marriage viable so the “new” majority of wage earners in the ACTUALLY-PAYS-TAXES range is eligible for extortion after a minimal investment. We can let the other homosexuals under the tent as long as they continue to refrain from threatening The Good Life.
(Oooo…maybe then, the REAL numbers concerning feminine “domestic violence” (a la Duluth) would suddenly rear their ugly heads by family court “advocates”.
John Rosenberg of Discriminations, who is painfully aware of what Title IX and “Affirmative Action” actually say, weighs in far better than I can.
- CaptDMO | 11/07/2009 @ 12:00