The schools set up the angry studies programs to bolster graduation rates among those who couldn't compete in finance or physics.

A recurring question is what to do with those who can't compete. We usually offer make-work, or institutionalization. What is unique/troubling here is that we have a cohort demanding equal outcomes for the non-achievers, and this often includes trampling the achievers.

All non-documented foreign nationals living in the US are double plus good. How dare you think otherwise!

I just posted a piece a week or so ago about how illegal aliens are costing California $5 billion a year -- as our state is about to go bankrupt. The law needs to be enforced, they need to be deported, and the 14th Amendment needs to be amended so non-citizens who come over here pregnant and squat and drop babies will not create instant citizens. These are not the times of wide-open spaces. We live in a welfare state, and I'm disturbed enough about all the welfare we have to provide to major corporations and irresponsible assholes in homes they can't afford who are here legally.

Last week, I read a piece about children who were born here to Mexican parents, who walk across the border to a city called Columbus to go to school every day on the U.S. taxpayer dime. No thanks! Again, time to amend the 14th amendment.

Thank goodness for the definition of "hate speech." We can now acccurately label everything said on behalf of feminism as hate speech.

The lengths they went to come to the conclusion that the innocuous statement on radio was hate speech reminds me of what is said about lengthy Supreme Court decisions. Which is, you can tell how bad a decision/argument is by the lengths used to explain it.
I wonder if that class will ever diagram some of the statements made by Keith Olberman on MSNBC?

Colleges and universities are in the later stages of being a scam. The ancient Chinese required a long course in Confucious to be admitted to the bureaucracy. We require a long course in college to be admitted to serious work.

College does not have to provide a measurable result, so they provide any convenient result or no result. They are separated from the needs of their customers, except for providing the "diploma", a mysterious piece of paper that can be awarded in any subject. So, colleges and universities are being run for their own advantage, not for students. Academic "freedom" has become academic "anything".

College is an Expensive IQ Test
-- They Let You Pay Them. It Doesn't Mean They Are Worth It.

From 11/2008 Washington Monthly by Kevin Carey:

Colleges are status-seeking institutions. Research and scholarship, Division I sports programs, new buildings, and high SATs are all components of status. Status seeking would be perfectly acceptable if a college’s reputation were based largely on teaching. Colleges would balance the competing interests of students, faculty, administrators, alumni, and the public. Self-interested institutions would prosper, and students would get a high-quality, reasonably priced education.

But status in higher education is not based on comparable measures of student learning, because such measures aren’t publicly available; lobbyists for colleges and universities have made sure the data is kept under wraps. It is effectively impossible to judge institutions by their outputs, by how much students learn. So, the pecking order is based on inputs like freshman SAT scores and tuition cost. Price has become a symbol of quality, instead of a component of quality. Colleges have many incentives to raise prices and none to lower them. Lower prices send a negative signal, often driving away students.

Let's see (Been 9 years since I did HTML)

Just trying to end these italics, is all.

Test

Should be italics
Should be normal.

damn

Couldnt we accuse tis group of hate speech?

After all tey are TARGETING daytime broadcasters and are using FALSE FACTS by not admitting that while Newsom's admin may not have come up with this policy they do endorse and enforce it.

They are using Flawed Argumentation by mentioning the name of the show and placing all the blame on the hosts without mentioning the people working behind the sceans or the broadcasting comapny and its parent corp, they also claim the show considers the Mayor to be a "dangeous, colluding criminal" which is patently false and grounds for a libel suit.

S why would we listen to people who spout hae speech on what constitutes hate speech?

Apparently, people are seeing a lot of italics here somewhere? I'm on a Mac, and on Safari, Camino, and AOL's browser, I'm not seeing it. Please advise.

"The schools set up the angry studies programs to bolster graduation rates among those who couldn't compete in finance or physics."

"A recurring question is what to do with those who can't compete."

That's simple: teach them to do something they can do! Despite what the politicians and do-gooders think, a college education is not appropriate for everyone. Tell me what a carpenter, plumber, or painter needs from college?

These are absolutely essential and respected professions, and what they need is vocational education followed by a good apprenticeship program.

Amy,

All the comments seem to be coming through in italics. (I'm on a dell at the library, that's about the extent of my ability to describe the tech I'm on.)

Free speech? What's that? It doesn't exist anymore. I have some vague memory of someone (I wish I could remember who since I think of it often these days for some "strange" reason) saying when the revolution comes, they'll still it America but it'll be a different country. I can't even remember if this was someone I liked or not but they sure as fuck called it.

Sorry. That should read...

They'll still call it America, etc.

All the comments from a certain point, all the comments on this entry, or all the comments on my entire blog? Thanks, please let me know.

Last year, when a major battle about Free Speech occurred here in Canada, I was mildly amused every time I saw an American commenting about how grateful they were to live in a country where free speech is guaranteed ... no matter what.

I told each of them to be very careful about taking free speech for granted because there are insidious groups in every country whose sole mission in life is to shut up those who disagree with them.

In terms of Free Speech, I do wonder if America will be the same place 4 years from now.

Thanks so much to the commenter (not sure if this person wishes to be named) who figured out it was an unclosed tag within my entry, and e--mailed me. Oddly, the ital wasn't appearing on a Mac - it all looked fine on Safari, Camino, and AOL.

Please refresh your browsers or close and reopen and refresh and let me know if you're still getting the ital.

I hate that singing bastard Barney. Oops, is that now hate speech against all purple dinosaurs? All Barneys? (Damn you Rubble and Fife!)

Just 'cause it'll make you smile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjFnJuk1Aw

unclosed tag within my entry, and e--mailed me

It was just hard to explain the problem when you can't use the various fonts to show what you are seeing. And each browser is dependent on the underlying OS for how renders a page.

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As for hate speech, what drugs are they taking? -- And can I get some?

It amazes me that such a small group who has no real touch with reality can do so much damage.

And it comes from both sides -- but mostly it is the golden rule: (S)He who has the gold, makes the rules.

Amy- I've been checking this entry off and on since you posted and I've noticed no problems. I'm using a Mac and browsing w/ Firefox.
Also have checked w/ the Ubuntu machine (Firefox browser) as well as the Windoze machine using Firefox and IE and there was no problem.
I think Jim P. has it right w/ the individuals browsers and underlying OS.
As far as hate speech goes- Every time anyone opens their mouth and speaks, it can be construed by someone else, as hate speech. To try to define it, or outlaw it, is foolish and impossible. BUT it won't stop the asshats from trying.

Remember-we don't call them italics. They are Italic Americans,

Some people will not be satisfied until the definition of hate speech is anything they disagree with.

There's a way to kill these two birds with one stone.

All publicly financed colleges and universities establish a 'student code', which is an implied contract between the institution and its students. This is where anti-harassment policies are typically defined.

If violations of these policies were open to civil action (e.g. lawsuits), this could have the salutary effect of both motivating schools to limit and clarify their anti-harassment policies, and also to reform their various identity programs.