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Tangentially related: --they wouldn’t do that, unless they were extras in a company of The Sound of Music. --FAKE NEWS!…
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When you're defending nazi salutes, you're telling me that you're a nazi.
About Elon's Nazi salute, I'll again post this video, which shows Elon's salute side by side with the salute as…
The only thing a beggar provides you with is a blessing/karma, which has no economic value, although I would still…
Well, clearly at least one does. God knows Musk doesn’t have to work another day in his life and hasn’t…
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I wrote about what is probably the most dysfunctional cartoon family ever.
http://bakertoons.blogspot.com/2008/04/dame-oyaji.html
Last night I decided to pretty much stop blogging and reading blogs, so that I can spend more time with my kids. I am shooting for a max of 20 minutes a day. As y’all know it’s a hard process; it will surely take me a while before I’m down to my goal. I never smoked or got addicted to physical substances–but I’m ADD as all hell, and sitting in front of a computer every day. This won’t be easy :-)
In any case, thanks for running such a great blog, it’s one of the best out there. I’m sure I’ll keep reading and posting occasionally, but hopefully less and less. So if I don’t answer you, now you know why.
Must. Close. Firefox.
Must.Stop.Posting.
MUST.CLOSE.FIREFOX!!!
Jeez, this is going to suck–I’m already over 20 minutes today and I haven’t even gotten to Rachel’s yet! And somewhere, someone is WRONG on the internet! Maybe even in more than one place! Aaaaugh!
Lol. Try to make it easy on me and don’t reply to this, willya?
Now I know more about how a smoker feels ;)
Must.Close.Firefox.
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Hey, Sailorman, did you see this fascinating new blog about a guy who’s trying to reduce his time online? The URL is…
To repeat the slogan used in an ad campaign for the Royal Mail a few years ago now: I saw this and thought of you.
Chay Magazine is looking for submissions. i’m not affiliated with it in any way, but it looks pretty interesting:
deadline May 15
My credit union sponsored a “What would you do for $100” contest, so I said I’d let them film me mailing the JPEG on my “Energy Wastage” page to my entire subdivision, on account of I’m becoming an energy conservation whore.
Did I win? No!
Save the planet, my @ss. They’ll probably give the prize to someone who swallows goldfish.
It’s a 150 some odd pages in pdf but this manual on recruiting and retaining female officers is definitely worth reading.
FCH, they probably didn’t pick you because you’re helping to freeze us all to death. Now, go and turn on your oil-burning furnace and let it run for a while!
Is Industrial Pollution Making America Fat ?
So… whatever happened to the Jena Six? I can’t find any information more recent than 2007. Has anyone been continuing to follow the case closely?
DSimon,
Google newsing (hmm, what’s the phrase for that, googling with google news) turns up an interview with the lead attorney for the Jena six. He reports that:
So Mychal got out after a year in jail, and none of the other students have been brought to trial yet.
In a related article today, a white teenager who displayed nooses at the Jena Six rally last fall plead guilty to federal misdemeanor civil rights violations.
Radfem, interesting document. In the beginning, it states:
In reading through some of the rest, I have to wonder if they’re looking at this the right way. Yes, it would take a long time under present conditions to achieve a 50:50 mix of male:female cops. But they seem to think that this is purely a function of having the right recruitment techniques and creating a better work environment. I have no argument with the idea that both men and women should be able to become cops, and should not face a discriminatory or hostile work environment. But the goal they set – achieving a 50:50::male:female force – isn’t itself discussed. On what basis has this been put forward as a desirable goal? On what basis has it been determined that it’s an achievable goal?
One example: one reason given for hiring women is based on their assumption that women have better communication skills than men and are more likely to attempt to resolve a situation without resorting to force. Well, I’ve met some pretty inarticulate women and some very articulate men. It seems to me that the more objective approach would not be to hire more women and presume that this would solve the problem, but to evaluate applicants for communications skills. If there is a real difference between the sexes, then you will end up hiring more women; in any case, you will have directly addressed the problem instead of taking an indirect approach and hoping it will work.
They do talk about how media depictions of law enforcement promote an image of LEO’s as people who use a lot of force and having other characteristics that would make it an undesirable job for women. But those are suppositions on their part. Maybe I missed it, but what consideration has been given to the idea that maybe women just aren’t drawn to LE work for some other reasons? Has any work been done to actually determine what the reasons are why more women don’t pursue LE as a career; not why the authors think they don’t, but why they actually don’t? Seems to me that the answers would give them a better shot at building effective strategies, and would also give them a better understanding of how practical the goal is.
It seems off-topic to even mention it, but wow…that video is awesome. I’ve never seen someone play guitar like that. Great find.