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Sunday, June 15. 2008

Sunday links

Pre-posted for your reading pleasure, like all of Bird Dog's posts this week:

Are men boring? Women think so. They never met me.

Inconspicuous consumption. The less money your peer group has, the more bling you buy.

Giving poor kids laptops does nothing for them.

Saudi-run VA school teaches hate. But if some cultures hate, then isn't tolerance of hate multiculturally tolerant?

The utopian origins of Dilbert's workspace

The few, the proud. Harvard's 5 ROTC grads

Politics and religion: Permitted, but not encouraged?

The Myth of Equality: Bynum in The New English Review

Why the FCC should not exist

Get ready for the oil price drop

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The "myth of equality" vanishes when you read carefully the phrase "all men are created equal" and realize that from that point of creation they start to differentiate. Some end up the good guys, and some the bad. The challenge is learning the skills to figure out which is which. I've been working away at that for about 80 years.

Marianne
#1 Marianne Matthews on 2008-06-15 14:40 (Reply)
Since posts on the "moreintelligentlife" site are of the "approved" nature, I thought I'd cross-post...

How appropriate for Father's Day weekend. It's been my personal observation that the kind of men who can stomach being around a self-centered, I-must-always-be-entertained high-maintenance woman are generally on the dull side. Often they inherited their wealth.
#2 KRW on 2008-06-15 17:59 (Reply)
KRW, Can't be any of the male bloggers here on the Farm. I think half of the men on this site are verbally and physically assaulted, by their wives daily. One quarter have a choke collar on them so tight that their unconsciense, all day . the other quarter are nambbie pambbie types. We're not dull, just whipped, and brow beaten, but never DULL!!
#2.1 jappy on 2008-06-15 20:27 (Reply)
I arrive in California shortly for a two month visit ,gas prices compared to England are low so I plan to drive the arse off my hummer...it just has to annoy somebody!
#3 thud (Link) on 2008-06-15 20:28 (Reply)
Re: the conspicuous consumption article link: This required funded, academic study? Anyone who has read 'Class' by Paul Fussell knows that the lower middle class is far more grasping than the bottom portions of the upper class. If you've got dough, it's gauche to display it with visible baubles- better to send the kids to a good school and vacation well and often, than to drive the Hummer to a home with sheets in the windows. The former has money, the latter only temporarily disposable income. In any boarding school, the rich kids 'slum it', (coach class in tattered jeans), while the scholarship students place undue importance upon brand names. Upper middle class homes are adorned with pictures of the owner standing next to political figures; the upper class assumes such associations, and has no need to broadcast.

Peregrinus
#4 Bridget on 2008-06-16 02:26 (Reply)
Wahabbist Saudi's fund and operate thousands of schools and many mosques in USA where it is taught that all religions are false, except Islam, specificly, Wahabbi Islam.

They have also, infused America's public schools with a sanatized version of what Islam is.

The enemy is being sought out and destroyed by American and Coalition Forces worldwide but in the US they have a free pass.
#5 Leag on 2008-06-16 11:23 (Reply)
Well, not quite a free pass, if their hate is conspiring to kill US troops outside the US.

Three Toledo-area Muslims were convicted Friday the 13, by a federal jury for such conspiracies and distributing information regarding explosives to terrorists.

Three down but how many more haters are praying in Saudi supported mosques and schools?
#6 Leag on 2008-06-16 12:46 (Reply)

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