Eat My Knickas, Libs
Posted on February 13th, 2012 by Tintin
ABOVE: John J. Miller and Herman Munster at family reunion
Shorter John J. Miller, America’s Shittiest Website™
Black or White
- Black college students are stupider and lazier than white students.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
That’s jus not possible.
Johnny’s still stewing over the report that black men have bigger cocks than fat, right-wing douchebags like John J. Miller, Jonah Goldberg, et al.
“just”, too.
Herman Munster is the most.
Herman is smiling because after the photographer is done, he’s going to murder the asshole standing next to him. GO FRED GWYNNE!!
i LIKE HERMAN MUNSTER BETTER WITHOUT GLASSES
Herman has an INVITINGLY LARGE FOREHEAD.
Damn, some things never seem to change. I imagine the racism will only get worse as the presidential campaign progresses.
Herman has an INVITINGLY LARGE FOREHEAD.
Sounds like an invitation to the House of Substance.
My doctor tells me I should avoid munster in favor of low fat cheeses.
Lowering the cheese fat.
SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE!
No, it’s not really but you probably know that. From the very article that John J. Miller – IF that is his realname – cites and links:
Imagine that.
That made me wonder how many black folks made this list.
Black college students are stupider and lazier than white students.
And white wingnut bloggers are the stupidest and laziest of all.
So tempted to get off the boat, but I don’t want to spend the day pulling leeches off my skin when I get back.
“Peter Arcidiacono, a Duke economics professor,”
I dunno, man. I won’t believe this guy until he can prove he never played lacrosse.
Don’t bother Galactic. His post consists solely of one paragraph from somewhere else. The paragraph he quotes is misleading, to say the least.
“People have written that my study says black students are taking the easy way out and have a poor work ethic,” he said. “The paper says nothing close to that.”
Yeah, so he quotes the paragraph that best distorts what the the study says into something that fits his biases.
Meanwhile, in YOU’RE THE REAL [RACIST | antisemite | bigot | …] land,
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2012/02/former-homosexual-calls-for-arrest-of-it-gets-better-founder-dan-savage/
And white wingnut bloggers are the stupidest and laziest of all.
It’s curious how they portray themselves as such studious workers, when all they do is try use one of five variations of LIBRULS IZ DUMB with the optional Topic ‘O The Day or Cherry-Picked Study attached.
I mean: did he fact-check this with other studies? Did he talk to any one else in academia? does he point out that while you can take as many “easy” electives as you want, eventually you will have to take the classes associated with your major, which (unless your major is alcohol) is usually difficult?*
Of course he doesn’t. ‘Cause he’s lazy.
* = meaning, you’re either doing a lot of reading or a lot of math or both. One way or another, if you’ve made it to your junior year, you’re gonna bust your ass a little.
If you click through to the article the NRO asshole based his little hit-and-run post on, you find that this study basically attacks affirmative action. Cripes. Won’t they ever get tired of fighting that battle?
Won’t they ever get tired of fighting that battle?
Considering that they’ve re-opened the war on contraception, I’d say the answer is “nope.”
I hope everyone saw the Pixar video. Beats Cars 2.
“Peter Arcidiacono, a Duke economics professor,”
I dunno, man. I won’t believe this guy until he can prove he never played lacrosse.
How can you trust the guy? He sounds like one of those shiftless, wine-guzzling Eyetalians.
He obviously has never met any of my frat boy or libertarian (not mutually exclusive categories) students.
Johnny’s still stewing over the report that black men have bigger cocks than fat, right-wing douchebags like John J. Miller, Jonah Goldberg, et al.
Hell, it is a well known fact that hamsters have bigger cocks than that bunch.
You know Monday is going to be okay with the mention of hamster cock.
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The paper, for those who love PDFs:
Herman is smiling because after the photographer is done, he’s going to murder the asshole standing next to him.
I’d pay to see that.
Shoulda took the tripod. Further down there were a couple who took off JUST as I was firing up the camera. Wish I could have caught them in flight – their wings are fucking huge! Oh well, there will be lots more oppy’s, surely some with better light. The crew from Oregon Field Guide, a superb Oregon Public Broadcasting production, is coming to some friend’s to film the mating rituals in a couple weeks. The ospreys should be back probably mid March, really looking forward to that too.
http://imgur.com/a/voDpr
One of the co-authors says the study is being misrepresented. Well of course; some folks gotta believe there’s a sober-minded counterpart to the naked, ugly racism surrounding the news of Whitney Houston’s death.
As a white student of the humanities and spouse of a white social scientist, I am mildly offended (not by the study, but by the cons’ take). School is what you make of it. People who are motivated by hopes of future wealth and status are attracted to SOME rigorous majors. They do not necessarily want to think and learn, though. People who want to think and learn will follow their passions to a greater degree than mere hoop-jumpers. If everyone was like them, we’d have little need for grades.
We need fewer douchebags who fake, cheat and half-ass their way through challenging degrees. They’re the real blight, even if they jump through tougher hoops. After graduation, are they gonna behave professionally, or just keep being douches when nobody’s watching?
John Miller got us real good there, didn’t he?
After graduation, are they gonna behave professionally, or just keep being douches when nobody’s watching?
Let’s ask any wingnut or Congress member with a college degree in something other than business.
I’m going to take issue with the idea of the humanities being less harshly graded. That’s a pretty stupid generalization, Mr. study author guy.
hamster cock.
And another rock band is born.
are they gonna behave professionally, or just keep being douches when nobody’s watching?
What if they never use their fancy degrees for anything but rolling weed on or outhouse decoration? AFAF.
And another rock band is born.
Hamster cock rock is a genre. See Air Supply.
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hamster cock.
And another rock band is born.
I insist there be an umlaut.
“I’m going to take issue with the idea of the humanities being less harshly graded.”–tsam
All I know is that I have seen dozens of people with science and engineering degrees who cannot write passable English. Some are ESL types, some not. They arrive in programs that ask them to write, and they can barely manage it. Many cannot follow simple instructions, or paraphrase, or cite sources. We just had a guy with a masters in computer science quit in a huff, saying his written work was always good enough before. (I am no model of prose style.)
So tempted to get off the boat, but I don’t want to spend the day pulling leeches off my skin when I get back.
Dude, that’s what the two wet suits, and double breasted hazmat kit, topped off with one of Spearhofoc’s fine chapeau.
And as soon as I finish my din din, Imma off the boat.
B4 sayeth:
Damn, some things never seem to change. I imagine the racism will only get worse as the presidential campaign progresses.
Provider Reminseth: It is NigitNigityNig[Clang] History month after all!
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Well of course; some folks gotta believe there’s a sober-minded counterpart to the naked, ugly racism surrounding the news of Whitney Houston’s death.
Crap, I forgot about how her death would be a catilyst for all manner of racist outburst. The drug overdose angle “see that just how those opeople are”, the fact that this is sucking oxygen from the possibility that some young white gile is missing in the world somewhere, and last but no least is the reminder that “…it is fucking nigger history month and by got dammit we gots to put up with an extree day!!!!”
Nowhere to go but down. Think about it, who is calling any of these asmunching gutter snipes out. The preznitencial nominees are free to get away with very thinly vieled code speak and won’t get called on it, ‘specially after Newt put ’em in their place.
If it looks like they are gonna lose and big to that guy somebody is gonna get hurt.
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I have seen dozens of people with science and engineering degrees who cannot write passable English
My father, the engineer, used to complain about that constantly and almost all his colleagues were native speakers with graduate degrees.
All I know is that I have seen dozens of people with science and engineering degrees who cannot write passable English. Some are ESL types, some not. They arrive in programs that ask them to write, and they can barely manage it. Many cannot follow simple instructions, or paraphrase, or cite sources. We just had a guy with a masters in computer science quit in a huff, saying his written work was always good enough before. (I am no model of prose style.)
I’ve seen that sort of thing as well, along with brilliant writers who can’t seem to get their mind around the most basic of Newtonian mechanics. I don’t think that’s any indication of how harshly the classes are graded. Being an engineer doesn’t mean you did much besides barely pass your English classes. I know that most engineering schools are almost solely focused on your math skills, and don’t give a huge crap about humanities. The point is that claim that graduate level prose classes, advanced ethics, etc… are not necessarily easier, nor are they graded on some easy metric so that black people can pass them.
He must have just forgotten to include the statistics on Asian kids.
That is the fucking weakest of sauce that was ever sauced. however I do feel compelled to drag the following mango from the commentariat:
I guess to make an arguably clearer point:
Physics 101 and English 101 are graded similarly.
Take a physicist in a graduate program and drop him/her into graduate level humanities, and we’ll see just how easy those classes that all the brothers seem to like so much because they’re just so damn lazy. I think the entire premise of the assertion that humanities is an easier ride through college is ignorant, personally.
**are,
There should be an “are” in there. Lookit how I dismantle my own argument for well rounded education.
Reminseth
dswhatsa diff anyway.
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All well put, tsam.
Off I go to practice so I can have the late evening for other pursuits.
Lookit how I dismantle my own argument for well rounded education.
I am guilty of same. We should start a club. I have been sounding like JarJar freaking Binks since I finished my din din.
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Here is an interesting sentence from the paper:
Other races are represented at 47.50, 48.4 and 45.7 percent female.
Here is an interesting sentence from the paper
Boom goes the dynamite.
I have seen dozens of people with science and engineering degrees who cannot write passable English
When I was interviewing engineers – EEs and CS guys – I gave them writing assignments. How they reacted to the requirement was usually as informative and important in the hiring decision as the written response itself. More than one I responded to “why did you hire that guy” was “because he can write.”
“once”
“more than once”
Fucking iPad.
What I don’t understand is, why is this a big deal to the wingnuts anyway, since they tend to mistrust anyone with a good education?
Slightly OT, but remember Bill Clinton’s second term? When all the wild-ass “militia” groups started coming out of the woodwork to fight the imaginary federal “Tyranny”? Assuming Barry gets his second four (and the GOP is sure working hard to make sure that happens), I think we’re gonna be in for more of same, only nastier:
Emerging Movement Encourages Sheriffs to Act as Shield Against Federal Tyranny
You can’t destroy everything without starting with SOMETHING.
Is this a great country or what!?!
See the link at 3:23 in the previous thread for some real vomit-inducing examples.
I’m another dude who did well in courses that required language skills and the ability to analyse meanings of texts and whatnot, but struggled (read: stunk royally) with math and sciencey stuff.
Emerging Movement Encourages Sheriffs to Act as Shield Against Federal Tyranny
Federal tyranny is ok if you are using it against the 99%. Otherwise it is unconstitutional!
I’m glad somebody values it. I can’t believe how horrible the scientists around me are at writing.
I’m surrounded by biologists, toxicologists, chemists, entomologists, and probably eleventy more -ists that I can’t think of right now, and they have me, the database geek with no degree, edit their writing.
I think random capitalization syndrome is my current favorite pet peeve. It’s amazing that supposedly smart people can’t get over this idea. “Oooh, that word looks important, I’ll put one of these Big Fun Characters at the front!” Gaah! Stop. That. Now.
I’ve mostly given up trying to get them to understand those incredibly complex (to them) ideas like voice and tense. I just try to catch as many of their stupid errors as possible so that they don’t look like idiots. Hopefully that helps us keep our funding.
The National Review is urging Gingrich to leave the race. Or maybe not. You figure it out. Or don’t.
The person who will “stand tall against federal tyranny,” even if it means armed resistance, according to organizers, is the county sheriff.
The 82nd Airborne is probably quaking in their boots as we speak.
What I don’t understand is, why is this a big deal to the wingnuts anyway, since they tend to mistrust anyone with a good education?
It’s just another cudgel with which to belabor black people. Shit, they make it illegal for generations to teach black people how to read, then criticize them for not being academically up-to-snuff. Cognitive dissonance and racism are essential to the right-wing “mind”.
The person who will “stand tall against federal tyranny,” even if it means armed resistance, according to organizers, is the county sheriff.
The 82nd Airborne is probably quaking in their boots as we speak.
That guy couldn’t even catch a couple of bootleggers driving a garishly painted car through the county every week.
That guy couldn’t even catch a couple of bootleggers driving a garishly painted car through the county every week.
I always love that gag!
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No, Barney, ah aint a-gonna give you your bullet until we see the whites of those ATF fellers’ eyes
What I don’t understand is, why is this a big deal to the wingnuts anyway, since they tend to mistrust anyone with a good education?
I thought that fancy book-lernin’ was just for elitists anyhow?
Ashamed to say I got out of the boat. There were only SIX count em SIX comments and half disagreed with John J. Munster-Miller. It was worth the leaches.
Apparently the walking talking turds in the Repiglicker party believe “The Southern Strategy” will still work in 2012. Lots of luck, suckers. No wonder the Repiglicker Party is doomed to extinction.
…Indeed, we show that accounting for academic background can fully account for differences in switching behaviors across blacks and whites.
Amusingly enough, that last sentence might better end with, “across black and white student populations.” As written, it’s pretty unintentionally funny.
As an engineer who writes a lot in my work, I do appreciate the irony of the humanities folks here harping on the stereotype of engineers as crap writers. Persons with advanced degrees in humanities are infamous for turgid, uninformative prose, and the feminist in me always loses patience with those feminist writers who never, ever use one word when five hundred (or thousand) will do.
Ian Fleming noted, “there is no top limit to writing well,” a sentiment he shared with my last writing professor in college, who said (of any creative endeavor), “the job is never done; the deadline arrives, and you turn it in, but you could always improve it with more time and effort.” It sounds as if some of these scientists need to be reminded that the final report is as important as the research, and to devote the appropriate amount of time and effort to the report.
Of course, we have quelle surprise that some lazy, entitled bigot misrepresented a study for racist purposes. We can answer the question, “ignorant or lying?” with “who cares?”
Since the most important thing a band can have is the proper image (talent comes later, if at all) I came up with a really top-notch album cover for their debut release.
Yes, there is an umlaut, and a hamster.
As a physics major who could do the math but got better grades in humanities classes, I’m not going to say one is easier than the other (math was always easier for me than literature) but I can affirm that the STEM classes were generally speaking graded more harshly.
If you show up and do all the assignments on time you can usually scrape by with a B in humanities, whereas perfect attendance and homework record will only count for 10% of your grade in science/math. Bomb those exams and you WILL earn that D.
And I went to a liberal arts college, so no countering that English courses at engineering school don’t count. Also, too, many of the freshmen wash out every year at engineering school–liberal arts colleges by contrast find this embarrassing and try to keep those numbers down.
PS: Also found the humanities’ “not for majors” courses super easy A’s, whereas I think science classes “for jocks” tend to depend on the school… sometimes they are easy classes and sometimes they are symphonies of wailing and gnashing of teeth. Generally depends on whether they take the stamp-collecting route or the “here’s the basic model” route. Dilettantes, like Goethe, HATE the model.
Santorum Passes Romney
OUCH!
Pew: Santorum
‘Nuff said.
As someone with an engineering B.S. (from a very tech-y engineering school) and a history M. A. (from a very social-science-y social science school), I’d say both fields are equally difficult and equally rewarding, just in completely different ways. In both cases I used to read about the topic I wasn’t studying to relax from the strain of what I was studying.
What I don’t understand is, why is this a big deal to the wingnuts anyway, since they tend to mistrust anyone with a good education?
I think they really believe that whatever education they got…ie..GED or Apollo College, mixed with what they like to call “street-smarts and common sense” (what educated people call ignorance, cognitive and logic FAIL), makes them somehow smarter than highly educated people who refuse to look at the world solely through the lens of their upbringing and comfortable paradigm. Once you become educated, you learn to not fear words or diversity, in fact you come to realize that humanity without such things is really a machine-like existence which, subject to the darker sides of human nature, would have ended this race a few millenia back. Imagine if we had nukes before the Enlightnement and Renaissance. Wingnuts fear everything that isn’t familiar to them. That’s certainly not an American anomaly, Osama Bin Laden was exactly the same way. “Convert to Islam or die”…
I hope I never pass a Romney.
Hey Oregon—nice work, fella!
Shorter N__B:
Larnin” is hard.
S’truth I say.
Federal tyranny is ok if you are using it against the 99%. Otherwise it is unconstitutional!
Actually, the 47%. The upper 53% are cheering for the Romney types to get a tax cut on his capital gains, cuz FUCK, 14% of 20 million is LOT OF GODDAMN CHEESE, BRAH. We’re broke because unemployed people and …ahem… blacks are not paying any taxes at all. We need shared sacrifice. Maybe those fuckers could cut back to ONE package of Top Ramen for dinner and pay some fucking taxes.
HAHAHAHA~
That’s so fucking awesome, OBS. Now all I need is bass player, a drummer, and another guitar player and we’re set. You in? I vote we do Celtic Frost cover, but with an Elvis twang like Dred Zeppelin only way more badass and junk.
Indeed.
This requires a member with an effective grunt for time-signature changes.
I’m in. I have a ukulele, a guitar, a piano, and harmonicas. Unfortunately, I actually know how to play the harmonica so that’s right out.
That made me wonder how many black folks made this list.
Seriously, The Clash and the Sex Pistols?
I’ve got even better rhythm than Linda McCartney so…DIBS ON THE TAMBOURINE!
Unfortunately, I actually know how to play the harmonica so that’s right out.
Play several at once.
Ashamed to say I got out of the boat.
Please report to the forward deck for decontamination.
Seriously, The Clash and the Sex Pistols?
He’s not that bright, and he desperately wants to pass for someone who’s only thirty-odd years behind the times.
I guess this one wouldn’t have made it. And I am really dating myself here.
Of course, my area in school was visual arts, so I had it easier than all of you. All I had to do was draw and paint and stuff.
Ha!
I’ve known plenty of really smartypants PhDs, etc who spew pure wingnut bullshit like its gospel and that really vexes me.
News for aging types:
BRMC is in the at-work iTunes library.
I tried dating myself but it turned out that I just wasn’t that into me.
I found I was all grabby.
Unfortunately, I actually know how to play the harmonica so that’s right out.
I agree. We immediately toss anyone who shows skill, dedication or sobriety. I can’t stand those things.
Do you think ZRM had a coyote-ugy moment that cost him an arm and a leg?
I’ve known plenty of really smartypants PhDs, etc who spew pure wingnut bullshit like its gospel and that really vexes me.
I know what you mean. William F. Buckley was a very educated man. He was also basically a neo nazi, so WTF?
Also, if I hear the term “radical conservative” again, I’m going to write a VERY sternly worded letter.
IT’S CALLED REACTIONARY, ED, YOU FAT BLOWHARD DOUCHE.
Lovecraft was also a pretty intelligent guy. He loved books, read up on current science, spent his life corresponding through letters because he felt that writing came as easily to him as speaking, but he was also so racist he named his cat the N-word. Go figure.
And here’s another picture of Salma Hayek, for no reason. I’ll stop with the objectification in this thread now. Sorry, I’ve had a bad day.
Oh no, not a sternly worded letter.
We immediately toss anyone who shows skill, dedication or sobriety.
I might just make the cut then. I have zero musical talent whatsoever.
I came up with a really top-notch album cover for their debut release
Where did you find the model?
Not AFAF, mind you.
And here’s another picture of Salma Hayek, for no reason.
One needs a reason to post pictures of Salma Hayek?
BRMC is in the at-work iTunes library.
As if on-cue, the sound system here switched from Nick Cave to BRMC.
The paper is an interesting one. So full of hilarious prejudice and bias it’s pretty funneh. F’rinstance, just as an example – teh “hard” majors these guys come up with are teh classically recognized STEM plus economics. Also of great shock and surprise to me is that two of the paper’s authors are affiliated Duke’s Economics Department.
I wonder what teh numbers look like if you just filter economics out.
Shit, they make it illegal for generations to teach black people how to read, then criticize them for not being academically up-to-snuff.
Or as George Bernard Shaw put it: “We laugh at the haughty American nation because it makes the negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the negro by the fact that he is a shoeblack … .”
Anywho, their main point is that teh persistance rate of blacks in science, engineering and (heh) economics is dreadfully low. That’s probably true, what considering that Duke has racist Economics professors.
Also too, pay no attention to teh Table 9 behind teh curtain. You see, teh whole point of this “study” was to show that improvements on black student’s GPAs over teh college years (an indication that affirmative action makes sense and provides poorly prepared but talented students opportunities they would not otherwise have). And yet, teh improvement of black student GPA is double what it is for “all races” – regardless of whether you look at teh “hard” majors or teh “soft” ones.
Isn’t this just a re-hash of “The Bell Curve”?
Yes, there is an umlaut, and a hamster.
At least it wasn’t a doll-baby’s head emerging from a dood’s asshole.
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At least it wasn’t a doll-baby’s head emerging from a dood’s asshole.
I’m going to need to look at some more Salma Hayek pics to get that image out of my head.
MK,
It may seem like a Bell Curve re-hash, what with all of teh “if we condition the responses” and such – but no. Teh authors are (in this paper) focused against affirmative action and that’s it.
But none of their conclusions follow from their data. Example, they conclude that teh increase in black GPA versus others is masked by the fact that they switch majors out of science, engineering and economics taught by racists. And yet, Table 9 indicates that students who stay in science, engineering and economics experience a GPA increase from freshman to senior year of four times what humanities students see.
It’s like they collected a bunch of data and said that it supports their view of teh world – without even looking at it.
Now I’m picturing Hayek’s head emerging from some guy’s asshole.
Further OT than usual… It’s official, Mini__B is some kind of mutant. At 16 months (next week), 34″ x 34#. And he’s not particularly fat.
The fact is, if you support Obama, you are against the Consitution and hate the USA. In fact you are a traiter and should be arrested for taking our freedom away.
I’m going to need to look at some more Salma Hayek pics to get that image out of my head.
I think it might have been Pup or Substance who posted such a link in the last thread for VS. Disturbing.
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The fact is, here is proof blacks are getting a free ride and whites are being persecuted, often by themselves, the left wing whites, the real rasists and haters. Christians are too, as well as the straights, why we have to be gay I dont know but its the religion of the hard left
Mini__B may be a Raskolnikov!
Moar?
Authors suggest that teh “hard” majors require moar homework and that’s why blacks switch to history or communications. And yet they also show that women spend an average of 25% moar time on homework despite having incredibly low numbers in teh “hard” majors. Their explanation? There is none. They ignore it. IOW, teh paper basically says “looking at gender, it is clear that one of our very important fundamental assumptions is false. And now here’s moar about how blacks are too dumb to understand numbers.”
The fact is, liberals want us all to surrender to big Unions like Hitler did. The New Black Panthers and ACORN and the Climategate Scientist Frauds and the Gays and the Muslim-lovers are all in on it, defeat the enemys within for America now.
You liberals are scared of Rick Santotum.
Mini__B may be a Raskolnikov!
He does not yet speak Russki, although Mrs__B is working on that.
I’ve lately moved on to exploding pope heads.
Dammit, I just chucked a set of Cyrillic blocks.
The fact is, real American values are not in the Liberal mind or heart at all. You are all enemies of freedom.
Made me look: It was Pup.
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Dammit, I just chucked a set of Cyrillic blocks.
I appreciate the thought, but we are not wanting for such things. My favorite is the russian Three Little Pigs, where the pigs cavort pantsless in the woods.
My favorite is the russian Three Little Pigs, where the pigs cavort pantsless in the woods.
Porky Pig’s entire career was pantsless.
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jesus! young g is 20 months and maybe weighs 25 pounds. his lack of interest in food is driving us nuts.
Porky?
Porky Pig’s entire career was pantsless.
Yet another chapter of Rule 34.
I don’t think of Porky as cavorting. He is more of a plodder.
I don’t think of Porky as cavorting. He is more of a plodder.
On shore leave, he was one cavortin’ motherfuckin’ pig.
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On shore leave, he was one
cavortin’ motherfuckin’ pig.-sixth of the Village PeopleFuqqst.
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Haaa! Be that as it may (ahem), I contend that pantless sailor = cavorting.
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, I contend that pantless sailor = cavorting.
Could be post-roll. (See transitive verb #16.)
Doin’ the no-pants dance!
Needs more Turcknutz!
. his lack of interest in food is driving us nuts.
FWIW, when it was time to include meat in Mini__B’s diet, he started getting sliced tongue and he loves it. He eats the veggies, but he grabs for the tongue.
DKW: The paper is an interesting one. So full of hilarious prejudice and bias it’s pretty funneh. F’rinstance, just as an example – teh “hard” majors these guys come up with are teh classically recognized STEM plus economics.
To be fair, when I wuz doing my math degree I got to know a couple economics majors from a number of my upper level math classes. Like differential geometry, differential topology, some of the more abstract algebras and dat shit. Economics is, or at least claims to be, a mathematical science. My impression, as a double major in CS, was that it’s somewhat less rigorous mathematically-wise than computer science, rife with lots of “what if we treat…” and “maybe when you ….” and stuff. Almost as though they get some notion then “prove” it mathemagically. People like Krugman and Mankiewicz do it the right way, looking at the data and finding models to account for it and only then drawing conclusions. In the hands of many (most?) economists, they go about it in reverse, finding models to support their foregone conclusions.
I contend that pantless sailor = cavorting.
Pantless sailor = castrating.
Yes, I take the
blamecredit for the doll baby ass. Er, for linking it, not for creating it. That would be really sick.I contend that pantless sailor = cavorting.
Querelle surprise!
Querelle surprise!
What’s hand sanitizer got to do, got to do with it?
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Once again, xkcd gets the last word on the “purity” of sciences
Physician: God made Adam from dirt and Eve from a rib. God is an awesome physician.
Physicist: But first god made the urfs and stuff from chaos. God is an awesome physicist.
Mathematician: *raises eyebrow archly* And where do you think the chaos came from?
I missed AK tipping me off that one of those hideous rappers was Steven Crowder.
Would I lie to you?
Once again, xkcd gets the last word on the “purity” of sciences
That’s why mathematicians only drink pure grain alcohol and distilled rain water.
“As an engineer who writes a lot in my work, I do appreciate the irony of the humanities folks here harping on the stereotype of engineers as crap writers. Persons with advanced degrees in humanities are infamous for turgid, uninformative prose, and the feminist in me always loses patience with those feminist writers who never, ever use one word when five hundred (or thousand) will do.”–tenser
The students I complained about attract attention because they’re not able to do what’s required of them. By extension, they won’t be publishing, or writing successful grants, whatever their scientific or technical expertise. I didn’t mean to invoke a stereotype. I take it for granted that plenty of engineers write well.
You indirectly raise the troubling point that some people who produce turgid, uninformative prose must be doing what’s desired of them by professors, journals, imprints, etc.
I simply wanted to use non-humanities students’ occasional difficulties with basic writing skills as evidence that they are not reliably the more capable students, harder workers, subject to rigorous standards across the board. If they are not, then a glibly racist take on choice of majors (“Racial Controversy at Duke Challenges Affirmative Action”) falls apart.
Anyhow. Sometimes Little White Johnny swears he wants to be an astronaut, and then fails to follow through. I’m not sure what this says about white people or privilege. People switch majors, B.F.D.
Now all I need is bass player,
*raises hand* I think I might have enough talent for a band called Hamster Cock. Maybe.
More white folk getting all prejudicial on the chocolate folk? Looks like it’s right on time for the Battle of The Titans to Save Us (white folks) From the DuskyDictator!!!
N_B, kg, The Li’l Creaturette is right around 25 lbs, at 16 months. She’s tall, though, but would rather squeeze the food and apply it to various objects-within-reach. If I tell her it’s cookies, she likes it immensely- her hero is Cookie Monster- so everything is a cookie.can’t wait ’til she starts talking and asks for ‘Cookies!’
I had an engineering major in my Tech Report Writing class (ages ago), he said he didn’t want his writing to look as stupid as the other guys he was being an Engineer with. He was obviously smarter than he appeared.
Not only do I have absolutely no musical talent, I won’t even show up.
I saw a GOBLIN COCK compact disc in a shop.
How droll.
From Steven Crowder:
It sure is.
Crowder is working hard to get maximum mileage out of their ‘knicka’ gimmick.
steerpike said,
February 14, 2012 at 5:50
Once again, xkcd gets the last word on the “purity” of sciences
Heh heh heh (Alison chuckles in a smug fashion, clutching her Hons. degree in Maths to her bosom).
I’m not saying that economics is easy, just that majoring in it is.
An undergrad degree in economics may well be packed full of complicated maths and whatnot, but it may also be one filled with eight-hours-a-week-course loads.
Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths. These are the recognized “hard” courses with “brutal” workloads. Throwing economics in there just shows the study authors’ bias. And not coincidentally, they happen to be from teh Dept. of Economics.
Also too, re: purity of sciences – I’m not arguing that teh more fundamental your field is that teh “harder” it is. Especially since we’re not even talking about the actual fields but rather college courses in those fields. Then again, I may just be saying that because as an engineer, I am automatically one step further removed.
Querelle surprise!
ABstaining from seamen puns.
Oh sheesh.
NRO sent me Santorum-spam!
“A Time For Choosing” indeed.
His own metaphor for himself as the boring guy you pick at the end of the dance (i.e. when you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel after your date mysteriously fucks off & you’re desperate as hell) seems hilariously apropos right about now.
I got that one. Ronald Reagan apparently lashed out against pastels.
hamster cock
And another rock band is born.
I think you mean KORENWOLF
(no umlaut, alas).
We immediately toss anyone who shows skill, dedication or sobriety. I can’t stand those things.
Then you’ve got a drummer.
This is a wonderful thread, as far as I’ve read. Especially the articulate conversations about education, grading, and writing. (Maybe I’ll tell some Fenwick stories after I ketchup this tasty thread.)
Pup: Thanx for the heron !! Loved the upper photo’s composition: In both color and texture, the bird’s plumage really pops against the background. pop, both in color. (And for visual interest, the tiny splash of bright green plaint on the piling.)
Moar fotos pleez after yer next expedition! Also ospreys too and moreover.
Steerpike: Thanx for planting the County Sherriff seed. Led to good snark and commentary from other peeples. Hang in there, bro.
Btw: I call Real Gary! upthead. His trollful presence always makes any thread eggstra-spayshul. (Furthermore and additionally, I call Real Coach in the last thread.
If wrong on one or both suppositions, I tip my hat to excellent fake trolling.
A producer!
Hawt.
Her heaving brains, straining at her skull…
Her heaving brains, straining at her skull…
Zombie pr0n?
Too bad the study didn’t study Jonah Loadpants.
Cause if you want “stupid and lazy”, John J. Miller, why bother with the minor-leaguers? The NRO has got the world champion over there filling up the next cubicle.
Huh! I bet none of those lazy black students ever thought of going on the intertubes and asking complete strangers to e-mail them some research…
Jonah got where he is the old-fashioned way. He chose his parents wisely.
John J. Miller read ‘Watch Your Head’* once, but he didn’t understand it.
*It’s a comic strip about black college students by Korey Miller.
Is this the same John J Miller who wrote that excruciatingly overwritten Civil war book that we, um, critiqued fairly?
Arcidiacono explained that while it is true that black students are much less likely to persist in certain majors, these differences disappear once the researchers distinguished students based on their academic background.
I’m shocked, SHOCKED, that white kids can’t even summon up enough intellect to even *try* majors that black children end up leaving.
Well now the Rightwing Overlords has proved the blacks are inferior and lazy, there’s nothing left but to get em back to those plantations. They can’t do anything with them fancy college edecations anyway ‘cept work fer the gubnint an take ull ar tax munny.
“… And the feminists have also directed them, really, to spend a lot of money. They have sexual counselors all over the place, victims’ advocates, sexual response coordinators. … So, you have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much. ”
Sigh.
Why Chuck Norris doesn’t like Santorum.
In a stunningly beautiful rebuke, the judge in the Texas case to which Newt was referring when he said students didn’t have the right to pray wrote:
What This Case Has Not Been About
The right to pray.
Any American can pray, silently or verbally, seven days a week, twenty four hours a day, in
private as Jesus taught’ or in large public events as Mohammed instructed.2
Matthew 6:5-8 (“and when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the
synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. . . . But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and
pray. . . . And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their
many words.”).
2 Quran 2:43 (“You shall observe the Contact Prayers and give the obligatory charity, and bow down with those
who bow down.”). Muslims are obligated to attend the mosque at least once a week and other prayers may be said alone,
but all prayer is always more acceptable to God in community. See PAUL GRIEVE, A BRIEF GUIDE TO ISLAM: FAITH,
RELiGION, POLITICS (Carroll and Graf2006). Daily prayers within fixed times are done “with the entire brotherhood and
sisterhood of believers facing towards Mecca from all around the world, following the same prescribed formula.” Id.
Case 5:11-cv-00422-FB Document 136 Filed 02/09/12 Page 1 of 3
via Think Progress
NRO sent me Santorum-spam!
That’s just cruel, when there are so many other flavors to choose from.
After following Pryme’s link, I also saw this little dribble of Santorum at Think Progress.
After following Pryme’s link, I also saw this little dribble of Santorum at Think Progress.
“He tells me, for example, that women are fully capable of “flying small planes.”
Oh fuck Santorum with a Pratt & Whitney JT8D at Max Takeoff Power.
After following Pryme’s link, I also saw this little dribble of Santorum at Think Progress.
“He tells me, for example, that women are fully capable of “flying small planes.”
Only, I assume, if said planes are painted pink.
“He tells me, for example, that women are fully capable of “flying small planes.”
In fairness to Santorum, his only experience with women handling the stick is with his tiny peepee.
You know, I almost haz a sad when Ricky says something stupid. It might bring the day closer when Mittens has no more speed bumps between him and the nomination.
But then I just remember who’s listening (“the base”), and I feel better.
Oh fuck Santorum with a Pratt & Whitney JT8D at Max Takeoff Power.
Ow.
I wish people cared about the War on Women as they do the Nonexistent War on CHristmas.
On the topic of race: Shorter-but-practically-verbatim John Hinderaker:
I’m interested in these “chi-coms”. They sound as though they’d make wonderful pets or delicious dessert toppings.
Hindlicker doesn’t understand the difference between pointing out privilege and calling all white people racist. Does this surprise anyone?
“He tells me, for example, that women are fully capable of “flying small planes.”
We could really use a wish right now.
I’m interested in these “chi-coms”. They sound as though they’d make wonderful pets or delicious dessert toppings.
According to Tobias Wolff in “In Pharaoh’s Army,” a Chi-com was a type of rifle favored by the Vietcong. IIRC, it had a bayonet that swiveled backward so the thing could be folded up and carried more easily. Apparently they were highly prized among U.S. grunts as souvenirs, to the point where Wolff and his sergeant used to trade the things for creature comforts like TVs.
Goodness, shorter other Powerline guy:
Goodness, shorter other Powerline guy:
“Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact, the whole airing of this issue has never been done by Congress, it’s strictly been a question of pressure from the
feministemployer.”boy did that foray into mangoville ruin my lunch.
should have gone to margaritaville instead.
From Pryme’s link:
That’s right, women living and working in a combat zone should expect to be on their guard when they return to base too. After all, men are animals and unable to suppress their animal urges. Expecting them to behave otherwise is just unreasonable.
Clearly it’s a feminist conspiracy.
I’m interested in these “chi-coms”. They sound as though they’d make wonderful pets or delicious dessert toppings.
Follow the directions in the bar codes on the back of your local stop sign. You’ll find them soon enough.
Vacuumslayer! I thought you had abandoned us forever after the crude baby-goatse thing. I hope you can forgive the shamefaced perpetrator. Sadlyville could nevah evah be the same without you.
Also, where is bbfk? Have she and hubbfk gone to the Mayo clinic? I hope things are going okay and the docs get closer to nailing down hubbfk’s malady.
If a shell-shocked woman who was raped by one of her fellow soldiers end up in the lock down I was in, and gets treated the way I was (they don’t believe her), then I hope she breaks an arm. And if they’re still too stupid to get her records and believe what she says, then I hope she breaks a jaw.