Imagine for a moment the Wal Mart decided to ban its customers from hosting bar-b-ques;
If pool builder forbade their customers to allow any friend or neighbor to use the pool they just installed;
That comic book stores banned their customers from playing Dungeons & Dragons;
Ponder peoples reactions if alcohol stores told people they could not take the property they have bought and paid for to parties?
Colleges are a business, and who in their right mind allows a business to tell them how to live their lives? What they can or can not do with their free time off store property? Would you allow McDonald to tell you you could never eat elsewhere?
Why would you allow any business to tell you whom you can associate with? Who you can spend your free time with? Are these people really so servile and spineless?
I'm not going to tell you to have a baby you don't want, but I insist that since you have a choice you make the best one you can, and to realize that yes, you can try again.
Left & right stand together in their enthusiasm for fucking around in other people's lives.
Make the best choice you can! We insist!
Crid
at July 15, 2017 12:20 AM
Interesting article crid.
I note the avoided the hard numbers on infant mortality rates, what the average age of death really is, whether anyone has spent a long time studying them specifically to see what happens when a tribal member starts showing signs of dementia given many neolithic peoples have a habit of encouraging non contributing members to walk off and die
Understatement. Harvard's endowment is $37.5 billion. (That's roughly 0.5 Gates, with nowhere near as much charitable promise.
Harvard has been described as "an enormous hedge fund with a small research institution attached.' No one should be surprised that either by incompetence or intention, the sentimental spirit of the school would be jettisoned for being a distraction.
And it's not my school, and it's not my endowment, so I'm not sure why we should care.
Crid
at July 15, 2017 12:57 AM
Cosh has a couple of interesting exchanges about widowhood in his Friday Twitter timeline.
"Left & right stand together in their enthusiasm for fucking around in other people's lives."
Context, cupcake, context. From our hostess: "Beyond all the suffering this kid will likely go through, I'll ask what I've asked before in cases like this: Who's going to take care of him when his parents die?"
Crid, obviously. And the rest of us. He insists!
Radwaste
at July 15, 2017 1:59 AM
So you're saying kill all the sickly's? You're insisting we make the best choice we can!
This means that there were almost as many people who chose the furthest possible point to the left as there were who chose all the conservative points, the centre-point and the most moderate left-of-centre point combined
Genes were found to account for 30% of variation in sexual orientation, for 32% of variation in gender nonconformity, and for 50% of mating success, measured by lifetime sexual partners.
That might even be partly true.
Crid
at July 15, 2017 6:51 AM
I sure wouldn't be here if there were strict mourning periods. Of course, people were more practical in the old days. I had an ancestor who lost 9 wives to childbirth. He remarried right away each time. Someone had to take care of the new baby.
I cannot fathom the bravery of the latter wives. Could you imagine entering a household where you had to take care of 9 children under 12, all of them half-siblings who had seen one mother after another pass away in childbirth?
Jen
at July 15, 2017 7:17 AM
The great thing about the so-called 'computer inter-net' is that it's turning out to be a great place to spend ones late-middle years, when one's inclined by nature to believe that These kids are out of their fuckin' minds.
The only problem is that These kids are actuallyout of their fuckin' minds.
Crid
at July 15, 2017 7:18 AM
House Dress Code gets updated and "modernized" after protest - because Paul Ryan hates women. That Nancy Pelosi could have updated it during her time as Speaker is left unmentioned.
Conan the Grammarian
at July 15, 2017 8:18 AM
After watching the flick over 30 times, bride-to-be Sharon Price, 52, and her fiancé Andy Price, 51, from England, decided they wanted to recreate the move during their first dance at their upcoming nuptials. But they soon discovered that it's not quite as easy as Jennifer and Patrick made it look.
In other words, the judge acquitted a rapist — whom the court had "no doubt" forced the victim to have sex with him — on the grounds that his culture might not have considered the sex — which left the girl unable to run for two weeks — to be rape.
According to Miami-Dade’s medical examiner records supervisor, the official cause of death is “gunshot to the head“. Eberwein’s death has been registered as “suicide.”
As in most matters (other than the petty attractions of New York City), Hymowitz is correct: Read the linked piece (3 paragraphs!) and the responses to Drum on Twitter.
It seems like milquetoast cowards are reaching out from their blanketed bassinets to scratch at passersby, and we'd better be ready to answer them hard and fast... And mean when necessary.
We need to live by principles that we articulate AND DEFEND reflexively.
"So you're saying kill all the sickly's? You're insisting we make the best choice we can!"
Wow. All that power of prose and you cannot read. FFS, read the whole linked post again, but this time read it like it wasn't all about you.
The POINT is that parents, not us, have to make the best choice they can in full view of the incontrovertible fact that they cannot command others to care for their offspring forever to provide them a life of comfort.
You want healthy offspring? I get that. If that's not possible, and you have a child anyway, you get what you signed up for and YOU condemn your child to a life of misery.
That's not the loving father and mother you otherwise, and properly, promote.
Universities ought to be places where issues are analyzed, distinctions are made, evidence is evaluated, and policies crafted to attain clearly stated goals.
Huh?
Crid
at July 15, 2017 5:25 PM
The more I think about it, the more I am totally cool with this happening to Harvard.
Crid
at July 15, 2017 7:57 PM
I bet more people - including women - obsess over a Kardashian than know this.
Radwaste
at July 15, 2017 8:21 PM
If only we could tell these little gals what they're supposed to be paying attention to!!!
Turns out Alzheimer's is literallyWEIRD.
Crid at July 14, 2017 11:52 PM
Regarding sixclaws link from yesterday
https://qz.com/1027873/harvard-just-moved-to-end-frats-sororities-and-final-clubs-entirely/
Imagine for a moment the Wal Mart decided to ban its customers from hosting bar-b-ques;
If pool builder forbade their customers to allow any friend or neighbor to use the pool they just installed;
That comic book stores banned their customers from playing Dungeons & Dragons;
Ponder peoples reactions if alcohol stores told people they could not take the property they have bought and paid for to parties?
Colleges are a business, and who in their right mind allows a business to tell them how to live their lives? What they can or can not do with their free time off store property? Would you allow McDonald to tell you you could never eat elsewhere?
Why would you allow any business to tell you whom you can associate with? Who you can spend your free time with? Are these people really so servile and spineless?
lujlp at July 15, 2017 12:18 AM
Reading this from today calls to mind Raddy's classic from yesteryear:
Left & right stand together in their enthusiasm for fucking around in other people's lives.Make the best choice you can! We insist!
Crid at July 15, 2017 12:20 AM
Interesting article crid.
I note the avoided the hard numbers on infant mortality rates, what the average age of death really is, whether anyone has spent a long time studying them specifically to see what happens when a tribal member starts showing signs of dementia given many neolithic peoples have a habit of encouraging non contributing members to walk off and die
lujlp at July 15, 2017 12:26 AM
> Colleges are a business
Understatement. Harvard's endowment is $37.5 billion. (That's roughly 0.5 Gates, with nowhere near as much charitable promise.
Harvard has been described as "an enormous hedge fund with a small research institution attached.' No one should be surprised that either by incompetence or intention, the sentimental spirit of the school would be jettisoned for being a distraction.
And it's not my school, and it's not my endowment, so I'm not sure why we should care.
Crid at July 15, 2017 12:57 AM
Cosh has a couple of interesting exchanges about widowhood in his Friday Twitter timeline.
Crid at July 15, 2017 1:29 AM
Verily, this story is a mess, and CC is correct.
Crid at July 15, 2017 1:52 AM
"Left & right stand together in their enthusiasm for fucking around in other people's lives."
Context, cupcake, context. From our hostess: "Beyond all the suffering this kid will likely go through, I'll ask what I've asked before in cases like this: Who's going to take care of him when his parents die?"
Crid, obviously. And the rest of us. He insists!
Radwaste at July 15, 2017 1:59 AM
So you're saying kill all the sickly's? You're insisting we make the best choice we can!
Crid at July 15, 2017 2:37 AM
Japan.
Don Jr.'s future.
Crid at July 15, 2017 4:04 AM
Social sciences:
.Crid at July 15, 2017 6:25 AM
Also, sleeveless dresses.
Crid at July 15, 2017 6:41 AM
Meeeeyow!:
Meanwhile:
That might even be partly true.
Crid at July 15, 2017 6:51 AM
I sure wouldn't be here if there were strict mourning periods. Of course, people were more practical in the old days. I had an ancestor who lost 9 wives to childbirth. He remarried right away each time. Someone had to take care of the new baby.
I cannot fathom the bravery of the latter wives. Could you imagine entering a household where you had to take care of 9 children under 12, all of them half-siblings who had seen one mother after another pass away in childbirth?
Jen at July 15, 2017 7:17 AM
The great thing about the so-called 'computer inter-net' is that it's turning out to be a great place to spend ones late-middle years, when one's inclined by nature to believe that These kids are out of their fuckin' minds.
The only problem is that These kids are actually out of their fuckin' minds.
Crid at July 15, 2017 7:18 AM
House Dress Code gets updated and "modernized" after protest - because Paul Ryan hates women. That Nancy Pelosi could have updated it during her time as Speaker is left unmentioned.
Conan the Grammarian at July 15, 2017 8:18 AM
http://www.wtae.com/article/middle-aged-couple-attempted-to-do-dirty-dancing-move/10309415
Sixclaws at July 15, 2017 9:31 AM
So rape is now a social construct?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/04/21/german-judge-acquits-turkish-man-of-rape-after-4-hours-of-forced-violent-sex/
Sixclaws at July 15, 2017 10:12 AM
He was suicided.
Sixclaws at July 15, 2017 10:42 AM
Jeffy the Beez-meister.
Crid at July 15, 2017 10:45 AM
★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★
☑ Jen at July 15, 2017 7:17 AM ☑
☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆ ★ ☆
Crid at July 15, 2017 10:56 AM
Also, if you go back far enough, every one of us has an ancestor like that.
…And three times as many monsters.
Crid at July 15, 2017 10:58 AM
This is via the Moynster.
Crid at July 15, 2017 11:01 AM
As in most matters (other than the petty attractions of New York City), Hymowitz is correct: Read the linked piece (3 paragraphs!) and the responses to Drum on Twitter.
Crid at July 15, 2017 11:47 AM
As with the Geraghty">http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/449499/real-tolerance-we-need-right-now">Geraghty piece (and Raddy's evasion) above, there's a really nasty force at work in public life nowadays.
It seems like milquetoast cowards are reaching out from their blanketed bassinets to scratch at passersby, and we'd better be ready to answer them hard and fast... And mean when necessary.
We need to live by principles that we articulate AND DEFEND reflexively.
Crid at July 15, 2017 11:49 AM
Bungled the link. Sorry.
Anyway, it's on.
Crid at July 15, 2017 11:51 AM
"So you're saying kill all the sickly's? You're insisting we make the best choice we can!"
Wow. All that power of prose and you cannot read. FFS, read the whole linked post again, but this time read it like it wasn't all about you.
The POINT is that parents, not us, have to make the best choice they can in full view of the incontrovertible fact that they cannot command others to care for their offspring forever to provide them a life of comfort.
You want healthy offspring? I get that. If that's not possible, and you have a child anyway, you get what you signed up for and YOU condemn your child to a life of misery.
That's not the loving father and mother you otherwise, and properly, promote.
You wouldn't make a dog live that way.
Radwaste at July 15, 2017 2:24 PM
As Snoopy likes to say:
Crid at July 15, 2017 4:57 PM
> Wow.
It's good that you're expressing your opinion about this (and presumably that you recognize your tone in the Geraghty piece:
People need to know that you're not going to tell [us] to have a baby [we] don't want... Since [we] have a choice.Crid at July 15, 2017 5:08 PM
So you're saying kill all the sickly's? You're insisting we make the best choice we can! -Crid
Naw, I'd suggest not allowing the government to pay for anyone's healthcare, and if people die because they choose not to pay, so be it.
It is not society's job to protect you from yourself
lujlp at July 15, 2017 5:15 PM
Pinker drops the ball re: Harvard—
Huh?Crid at July 15, 2017 5:25 PM
The more I think about it, the more I am totally cool with this happening to Harvard.
Crid at July 15, 2017 7:57 PM
I bet more people - including women - obsess over a Kardashian than know this.
Radwaste at July 15, 2017 8:21 PM
If only we could tell these little gals what they're supposed to be paying attention to!!!
!
Crid at July 15, 2017 9:15 PM
The future of sexual intercourse.
Crid at July 15, 2017 9:45 PM
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