I saw TDS with Christina Hoff Summers. I agree. She's too vague and evasive. She should have came to the interview better prepared. But it could very well be her book is all based on this kind of anecdotal observation rather than solid research. I like how John pushed her about the red ink issue. She should have been more specific in her examples.
I also finally caught up and saw Reza Aslan. DAMN! That boy's a hottie. I heard his interview on Fresh Air. It doesn't surprise me. I know some extremely hot Iranian men here in town. Persian boys are too adorable.
I'm going back to the library to get his book. I think I'll skip the Summers' book.
13 years old is too young to have a baby. It's physically dangerous and cruel to put her through it. I hope they tracked down who the father is and beat him in the head with a giant brick.
Sorry, not grumping at you and I hadn't seen neo-con education lady yet. I agree with some of her points, but not the agenda she's pushing.
Ah, good. I couldn't tell if maybe you thought I was saying those things about hippy-dippy educators or something. Yeah, honestly, you think kids aren't going to learn about competition if the schools don't implicitly reinforce ONEWINNERMANYLOSERSUCKAH? And I like what you're saying Little League does -- learning about competition is good, but learning to feel comfortable trying new things is even better. God knows, if the emphasis hadn't been so hugely on winning, I might actually have been willing to try some games.
Or possibly not. But knowing that, not having played them before, I was likely to lose tended to make me reluctant to invest too much and get ridiculed.
I'm eating a cookie right now. it's an oatmeal cookie, so that's breakfast, right?
Vortex, it's almost 11. That makes it brunch.
I'm not sure how tag could be eliminated from public schools. In gym class, sure, but at recess?
Well, a lot of schools are eliminating recess. And who ever played tag in gym? So there you go.
there has to be a happy medium between sadistic dodgeball and everyone gets a trophy, right?
stupid extremists on everything.
My personal favorite moment of the entire show came earlier, though, when Stewart mocked the tee-heeing giggly us-girls ineptitude of the CNN co-anchors at the end of a serious, depressing story in which a spokesflackster had just lied on-air: he flailed, he giggled, he exploded into righteous expletive-laced fury. I would've had his baby right then and there.
Yes! I'd forgotten about that in my irritation with the these-schools-today-head-shake thing, but that was wicked. And I like his sparing use of bleeped obscenity. It nicely adds emphasis to the comedy -- like, "Look at this, isn't this funny? In the way that it drives you fucking insane?"
What's the joke about the "Conflicting theories about the Earth's shape" headline?
Well, a lot of schools are eliminating recess.
Oh, lord. I would hate to be the 2nd grade teacher of a recess-deprived bunch of kids. Do they really expect the little blighters to sit calmly at their desks from 8-3, with only a lunch break? Heck, I can't do that and I'm 37.
