Anya ,'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But, really, I don't know what dodgeball was like in its original incarnation, and I'm perfectly happy to give original dodgeball a pass -- but by the mid to late 70s dodgeball was a way for popular kids to fuck with unpopular ones with the teacher's permission.
DX, I think JZ just called you old.
let's stop sending them outside to blow off some steam for 20 minutes a day.
Running around getting exercise is no way to meet No Child Left Behind standards. Therefore it's counterproductive.
stupid extremists on everything.
This is where I come out.
I can see the argument for eliminating dodgeball. The whole point of the game is to throw the ball at other kids. An awful lot of potential for injuries there. Especially since kids can be pretty sadistic.
Also, shouldn't one purpose of gym class be to encourage kids to be physically active? A diet of nothing but "one winner many losers" games is only going to discourage those who aren't natural athletes. Even a steady diet of two-team games, where half the class is going to be on the winning team on any given day, is better.
But it's also appropriate to make physical activity fun. And it helps to have a certain amount of no-particular-winner activities.
The self-esteem movement doesn't deserve the scorn it's often given. In the gym class context, I think it's appropriate to give a few words of praise to the uncoordinated kid who shows improvement, even if the kid is still well behind everyone else. Trophy for everyone? Not necessarily. Praise improvement? Definitely.
I'm probably the most extremely-to-the-right buffista in terms of the abortion issue, and even I'm horrified hearing about what people are doing to that poor girl. Quite apart from the moral judgements and psychological trauma issues, aren't there grave health risks to both mother and child when the mother is that young? I'd think a 13 year-old would be too physically immature to safely carry a baby to full term.
Running around getting exercise is no way to meet No Child Left Behind standards. Therefore it's counterproductive.Actually, even with whatever standards, if a kid doesn't get out to run around for spell, he's not going to be able to learn anything, because the adrenaline floods his brain, and a brain drowning in adrenaline is dumb. SCIENCE FACT (or possibly my asspull opinion, but let's go with SCIENCE FACT).
On the 22nd of December 2004, Kyle Van Horn taped a disposable camera to a piece of black foamcore and inscribed upon it the following message: "ATTENTION POSTAL WORKERS! Please help us with our project. As this camera travels across the country we want photos of all whom it encounters. Please take a photo before you pass it along. Thank you!"
That IS cool! Except many of the photographers seemed to ignore the flash button, which is unfortunate.
DX, I think JZ just called you old.
Dude! Stop putting words in my fingertips! A man who's willing to quote The Producers at the drop of a hat is forever young in my book.
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.
OMG, I KNOW!! In Oprah magazine this month, there is a list of "five women we'd like to trade places with for the day" or something, and Tracey Stewart is on the list. For a minute I was annoyed that they couldn't come up with five women with their own merits, but then I remembered HOW FUCKING TRUE it is.
JZ, you're a stompy suck up.
My favorite was jailball. I was good at jailball.