So, I spent the weekend avoiding my 15th high school reunion. Ugh. I’m not sure I completely understand the point of reunions—especially since I can’t really remember any of them anyway. But, I was told by a friend of a friend that one old classmate decided to get all naked and let Mr. Willy out […]
Once again the Republicans are pulling out the “gay marriage” Constitutional amendment card to try and gather those right-wingers back under the umbrella. “No, darlings. Don’t look at our moderate—and perhaps even, gasp!, compassionate—approach to illegal immigration, we still hate those big ol’ gays, just like you!”
I never have understood this argument that allowing marriage […]
A friend who teaches at a small college has been taken to task. He caught a student plagarizing, but was reprimanded by his boss because his syllabus didn’t have a specific section on plagarism. In other words, because he didn’t explicitly say “don’t plagarize,” catching a plagarist has caused him trouble. Since when has plagarism […]
jinkies1973: Is it wrong to think the environmental movement is shiny and ineffective?
JK: I don’t think so. I think a lot of their stuff smacks of that “the world would be pristine if only we…” stuff. There are environmentalists who are more realistic, of course, but the public face, at least. It certainly tends to […]
Environmental activists mostly amuse me. They drink bottled water (which is sucked into plastic via environment-polluting processes when tap water has been proved to often be healthier and contain less bacteria). They drive mom and dad’s SUV and they spend all day on the computer, running up the power bill and personally polluting the air […]