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Friday, April 29, 2011
Worst/Best Analogies of High School Students
Great list of pretty bad stuff. One favorite: "Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever." Or a longer one:
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at asolar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it."
Gus DiZerega on the Promise of Diversity
DiZerega is a political scientist and a Pagan, and argues that there is strength in diversity.
Keynes/Hayek Economists Fight Rap
I'm not knowledgeable enough to know how well this represents the arguments of the two economists, but it's a fun way of trying!
Journal of Universal Rejection
A xcholarly journal of the highest calibre. You can be sure of it, because they say so.