(While scanning this, the HP photo software offered me the option to "Smoothen Textures." Smoothen? What, did HP contract with the author of Beowulf to write their dialogue boxes?
Wow. Yet again, tanx for the memories. A commune I belonged to (now, don't all raise your hands) once resolved to learn to speak only Middle (ca. 1300) English, at least to each other. We didn't.
"All of this means that while the government has been artificially propping up the economy and 'stimulating' it through artificial means, peoples’ perceptions of economic life have been transformed into that which was intended by the central planners: the economic crush is over, our government cured all the problems, things are great again, go back to your old ways. Rinse and repeat."
Reader rob smeared me as "weird and out of touch" for noting how intolerant progressives and progressive institutions are today. No, he complains, they are only being "fair"! So let me share three items of interest.
At one large organization where a friend works, two black cafeteria cooks were asked to prepare a special meal in honor of African-American history month. No doubt, they thought back to their own childhood and prepared on meal of ribs, collard greens, and cornbread. A much higher status member of the organization came to the cafeteria and was sorely offended by their "stereotyping." She got them fired. So this highly privileged woman got two much less privileged, minority workers, who were probably supporting families on their low wages, thrown out of work because they had offended her progressive ideology by implying that African-American people ever ate African-American cuisine. Hey, fair's fair!
From Amherst College, as noted by the left-leaning journal Commonweal:
‘Despite the sentiment expressed in its introduction, such a document will not serve to encourage discussion, but to stifle it; the goal is not intellectual diversity, but conformity. A professor friend of mine at another college notes ruefully that colleagues who oppose the ideas and language put forth in the Amherst document don’t dare say so publicly. “They’d be ostracized and shamed,” he told me. “You just can’t disagree with this kind of thing.”’
Wow. Yet again, tanx for the memories. A commune I belonged to (now, don't all raise your hands) once resolved to learn to speak only Middle (ca. 1300) English, at least to each other. We didn't.
ReplyDeleteOutsourcing to the 4th World (Ghosts) is even cheaper than outsourcing to the 3rd World. Watch for it--it's coming on strong.
ReplyDeleteI alwasys want to have a lot of gw gold and then i will give my friends some GuildWars Gold to make them strong. I like to earn the Guild Wars Gold and also want to get a lot of GuildWars money,sometimes i will get some cheap gw gold to buy some weapons.
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