The Foreman Awards For Excellence In Humanity - December 14th

[ericcoleman]

Jim Rutz says that soy makes you gay. I don't know about the science here (especially since this is from wnd.com), but I think that when he says "Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because "I can't remember a time when I wasn't homosexual." No, homosexuality is always deviant.", well, that says it all.

A young man found a pellet gun. He gave it to the assistant principal, who expelled him. Sure he probably should have left the gun where it was and went to get the principal, but ... expelled?

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[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Psst! Same link for both articles. You need fix0r second link.

[ericcoleman]

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[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

*stunned*

Rutz is being a twit, and confusing his own messed-up prejudices with science.

But the school principal and board are confusing a petty literal reading of a rule with appropriate action. A kid finds a weapon, secretes it away to give to authorities, and you penalize him as if he willfully brought it there in the first place.

Unless there's something not being reported (like IF the authorities already had heard the kid had it, and IF he concocted the finding-it story as a cover to get out of trouble), the school principal wins hands down in my opinion. Way to teach kids what honesty and doing the right thing will get you today.

[ericcoleman]

The impression I get from the article is that this is a good kid who did the right thing the wrong way ...

It's all clear to me now!

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

"All humans (even in old age) tend toward femininity."

Which explains why women grow beards as they pass mentlepause.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Both candidates here are outstandingly deserving, but I have to go with Mr. Homophobe for the malicious distortion of science. Perhaps 1 out of 100 will fail realize the second guy is a complete raving moron, but many more, not having any understanding of either science or of how to evaluate scientific claims, will be taken in by Mr. Homophobe's bullshit. He undermines not only gay rights but science itself.

[rose1thorn.livejournal.com]

You make a good point. Still, I wish I could vote for both.

[mstrhypno.livejournal.com]

To me, the issue is whether one has a direct impact on someone's life RIGHT NOW and being expelled for a GuN VIOLATION at school is going to haunt this kid for a LONG time.

This is a classic case of "shooting the messenger" with a gun that HE brought to YOU to turn IN!

The hell of it is that it wasn't even a REAL firearm, but a PELLET GUN - but the administration TREATED IT AS THOUGH IT WAS A REAL FIREARM!

In DuPage County, IL we have a program going on right now where citizens can turn in firearms that they don't want, no questions asked. Can you imagine what would happen if the cops suddenly turned around and arrested some guy who turned IN a weapon on that program?

They would NEVER see another unwanted firearm handed in EVER again, nor would the citizens OR the criminals trust their word on ANYTHING, ever again!

Some (many? MOST?) of these tin-plated martinets that we have as school administrators really need to get the hell out of their offices and into the real world for a few years so they can have a grasp of what it is LIKE out here.

The majority of them have NEVER left academia.

Ever.

Such being the case, they are completely clueless as to how the REAL WORLD works.

Having been on a high school parnt's advisory board for two years, and having dealt with uncompromising administrations when I went BACK to college (a Psych of Sexuality course that taught ONLY Freud?! - no Masters & Johnson, no Hiite, nothing on psycho-biological structures in relation to sxual response?! - NOPE!), I believe that I can speak to that with some experience and authority.

I firmly believe that ANY school administrator should be REQUIRED to spend at least THREE YEARS working and living outside of academia before being allowed to run the lives of our kids.

Lee

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I would say we shouldn't have people trained as professional school administrators at all. Principals should be experienced teachers -- and they shouldn't get a raise for switching, it should strictly be a lateral career move. I see a big part of the reason we spend so much on public schools and get so little out is that we have so many administrators -- always higher paid than the people who actually matter, the teachers. If we got rid of 50% of the administrators who work in the school buildings and 90% of the ones who work in other offices, and used the money to raise teacher salaries, I bet we'd see a dramatic improvement in our schools.

[mstrhypno.livejournal.com]

Actually, if things were the way they were supposed to be - theacher would be paid like professional sports "heroes" and sports "heroes" would be paid like teachers are now!

The average teacher makes in one year what the average NFL/NBA player makes in a WEEK!

And only about TEN of them can string a coherent sentence together in ANY language - INCLUDING gibberish!

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

If people would get lives of their own instead of investing their passion in people they see on TV, the sports heroes would go away. And if teachers were paid in proportion to their importance, kids might develop into people that had lives.

[mstrhypno.livejournal.com]

That is probably one of the most profoundly truthful statements that I have read in ten years.

Brava!

Lee

[wyngarde.livejournal.com]

I don't touch soy and I'm king of the men! I have perfect Lee Majors chest hair and it's from eating HAMburgers, not SOYburgers...My kids ain't gonna be no Soy-Sissies! Now excuse me, I'm got a Flintstone's sized rack of ribs to eat. ;)

Methinks the robot doth protest too much

[ericcoleman]

You find me attractive ... don't you ???

Re: Methinks the robot doth protest too much

[wyngarde.livejournal.com]

I do...But don't let Holly find out!!!

Hope your show was good last night. I was doing 'The Scope' X-Mas pod-cast. May see you tonight if you are going to be where I heard you might be...