Archive for February 2006
February 17, 2006
Post-Secondary Educational Terrorism
11:35 am | College | Culture | Thoughts | Comments: 6
In twenty minutes I intend to walk into DEV 109D and bomb a test. That’s right, folks. It’s not a suicide bombing, as that would be extreme.
We’ve been talking about diversity in Management class lately, a topic that is so worn out after two decades at Grand Valley that I could teach a graduate class on it myself. It’s always awkward to watch videos on diversity when you have a room of thirty white people who are all trying not to look at the one black dude in the classroom out of courtesy. Now I’m not saying that Grand Valley isn’t diverse, it actually is. Personally, I don’t see any particular need for a diverse campus.
Affirmative Action has two sides: those against it say that people should get things and go places on merit, not by some government-implemented system that boosts them. Those for it say Affirmative Action only guarantees that people who are meritous get that which they have earned or deserve. I side with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who says that a black man can achieve whatever he wants in America without the meddling of the government. That’s not saying there aren’t racists out there, which there certainly are. Racism is one of the issues we deal with in America, and we always will be dealing with it. There needs to be a balance, however, between protecting people’s rights and overreacting by hand-feeding people under the assumption that they can’t feed themselves when it’s been proven that they can.
February 16, 2006
Random Thoughts in the Early Morning
9:21 am | Random | Thoughts | Comments: 3
- Does anybody care about tech stuff?
- I think ducks are cool, ducks and penguins mostly.
- People shouldn’t wear shirts that say “Staff” on the back, it’s pretty lame.
- If I get one more medication leaving dumb notes in my shoutbox I’m going to burn somebody’s house down.
- A long time ago, or so I’m told, cornflakes were supposed to kill people’s sex drive. What was up with that?
- Speaking of sex, did you know that sex comes between quinque and septum?
- Wubble.
February 3, 2006
New Kids on the Blogging Block
1:33 pm | Nature | Weblogging | Comments: 2
If you thought you were safe on top of the Webrogosphere, you can jolly well think again. If all goes well, Pigeons will be making the next big splash into the muck-filled sludgepit known as the Blogging. Now, pigeons are really cool things. A couple of my favorite random trivia items relating to pigeons are how when they are young you can feel stuff they’ve eaten in their stomach and also there’s that one song about pigeons by Bert from Sesame Street. And how can we forget the plight of the Berlin Street Pigeons? It’s no surprise that these little beastlies are now going to show us all how Blogging is done.
