For all of the good that civil rights crusaders have done over the years, one of the few disservices I believe they’ve rendered to our society is the vilification of the word “discriminate.” At its core, “discrimination” is not inherently evil. In fact, unbeknownst to many, nary a day goes by during which we don’t discriminate: [...]
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President Obama laid out his education plan today, and I’m a little confused by it. Specifically, I’m looking for the part that is completely bizarre and makes no sense. I’m not seeing it. I’m not sure that this will ever be anything but rhetoric, though: he urged states to develop standards “that don’t simply measure [...]
In a post earlier today, I wrote that my waffle iron has as much “Presidential experience” as Obama does. KMike has called me out on my lazy language: To be fair, Pete, which of the candidates had presidential experience? Was Jimmy Carter on a third party ticket somewhere? And how many terms did [...]
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It wasn’t any easier to wake up this morning. My breakfast didn’t taste any better. MARTA didn’t move any faster. I’m not going to make any more money today than I did yesterday. Today is, essentially, yesterday with a new name. So, while I’m certainly not trying to rain on any parades here, to those who [...]
I finally found a platform point of Obama’s I could get behind: Down with the BCS! (Just for clarity’s sake: this post is satire. I do not actually want you to vote for Obama.)
one of the major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people must want to rule people are, ipso facto, [...]
I’ll admit, I haven’t been keeping an overly close watch on the primary campaigning. I learned a long time ago that we will never nominate anyone who would actually make an outstanding, principled president… so when November rolls around, it’ll just be the lesser of evils again. The puzzling thing, though, is all of the hype [...]