The snark potential, it’s just–limitless. The thoughit chokes me up.

Excuse me, I have something in my eye.

Come to think of it, I’ll give Amy money to make that video. I wouldn’t pass up this performance for the world.

Her entire “Save the Sluts” program consists of Alkon showing up once a month to an inner city school to lecture the girls about abstinance? And now she wants money to videotape it and put it on the internet, something most teenagers can manage for pennies with mom’s video camera?

Yeah, it’s not like B of A doesn’t have all kinds of dough to throw around right now or anything – it’s the PERFECT time to apply for a loan for some hare-brained business scheme! Go for it, folks!

In fairness to Amy, her last moderator quit when she stiffed him.

For a year.

Yet with this past record of fiscal restraint – well, at least that’s what the GOP calls it these days – she STILL can’t get a quick loan? Color me shocked.

Seriously, resisting mass suicide must be a daily struggle.

I applaud the Bank of A. for the sensible decision. If she’d wanted an unustifiable and high risk loan, she should have picked one of those currently under investigation by the FBI.

PS. I’m wondering how she would have paid the loan back.

From a few comments after Amy’s:

Amy, this is controversial, but I believe the reason you don’t see pregnant Jewish or Asian teenagers is mainly cultural and also due to IQ.

According to “The Great IQ Debate”, Jews, as a group, have the highest IQ levels – almost 10 points higher, (I believe) than average. Asians are second highest. They also, as a group, tend to have less of a low range. It is a more homogenized group, both intellectually and culturally, even despite originating from different countries.

The diverse US population, on the other hand, may range in IQs from 60 (like my retarded brother) to 200 or higher.

It is highly controversial to look at the situation this way, but having a retarded brother, as well as a genius son, I’ve come to believe that IQ can’t be discounted when viewing these social problems.

At a certain point, my brother was removed from mainstream school and taught at a level more appropriate for him. He simply did not have the mental capacity for high school level work. He was never going to be a “high-achiever”.

And we know WHY he is retarded. His birth mother admitted to drinking alcohol heavily throughout her entire pregnancy. This obviously damaged his brain.

Unfortunately, what I see in the black community – and to an increasing degree in the white – is that there are many kids who are basically at the same intellectual level as my brother. Although they appear “normal”, if tested, they would likely score in the lower IQ range too. Yet, there is a reluctance to acknowledge this as mental retardation. These kids are mainstreamed and expected to succeed as if there’s nothing wrong.

Of course, these particular kids fail. They grow discouraged, drop out of school, end up on the streets, doing drugs and having babies – many of whom are likewise mentally challenged because their womb environment wasn’t good either.

While in school, they also drain the educational resources that are available for those students with higher abilities. The ones who can and want to succeed are often dragged down by the weight of the low achievers.

I would’ve hated to be in class with my brother. As much as I love him, that would’ve been extremely frustrating for me, as well as him. You could spend weeks teaching him Shakespeare or biology, but he wouldn’t retain almost any of it. He’s mentally handicapped!

But he’s white – and my brother – so I can say that. Unfortunately, this isn’t easy to talk about, much less address, in the black community.

It doesn’t matter how much money we spend on education. We are not going to have a successful outcome unless there’s some honest self-evaluation within the black community. As you say, there needs to be greater accountability for behavior because this is leading to a problem that education alone simply cannot fix.

Posted by: lovelysoul at September 24, 2008 6:19 AM

Lovely, indeed.

Eugenics/2008!!!1!

In fairness to Amy, her last moderator quit when she stiffed him.

For a year.

Behold the mighty economic power of S,N!!!11!!fifteen!!!

It must have sucked to go through that harrassment as a kid. But that doesn’t mean you build a shit moat around yourself and hope for more persecution to feel important.

T-Bone Walker.

Hey, only tryin’ to help!

I’m a writer and I want to be compared to writers as a whole.

Okay. People who read Isaac Asimov become smarter. People who read you become stupider.

How many Korean-American women do you know, have you ever seen or heard of, who are single unwed teen mothers? I can’t imagine it’s a sizeable group. Can you? How many Jewish girls do you think are unwed teen mothers? The mere idea of it wouldn’t have been possible for me, and not because I grew up in the lap of luxury, but because I had an intact family and cultural values that drove me to do something different

That’s not sociology I can believe in.

That’s a lot of stuff I wrote, eh? Two quarters of it actually makes sense, I suppose – maybe even less.

Whatever, man.

The last days are here, everyone.

Play X-Box, fornicate, do drugs, compose fleetingly witty blogposts – whatever tickles your fancy.

The time has come.

Crid the Crud. And good ol’ momof3, whose children I pity. And pathetic brian sans brain. The queen bee herself needs years of therapy.

Hey, isn’t Crid supposed to be some kind of a super computer sleuth? You’d think he could figure out blockquotes and italics, wouldn’t you?