Yeah. The game tag. Because kids were getting hurt and being ‘forced to play against their will.’ Here is an idea- Don’t run if you don’t want to play. I don’t know about you, but I think kids are supposed to get hurt. It’s in the job description for being a kid. If schools keep doing this and coddling kids, over-protecting them, I’d imagine it’s not good for their development. It’s not challenging kids to deal with anything. Maybe this isn’t a big deal, but a lot of this has been happening in other schools, banning certain books or other games, etc. Just seems like bad news to me.
posted on August 30th, 2007 in Links, Manifesto, News| No Comments »
[If China started] making, say, toys without lead in them or food that isn’t poisonous, their costs of production will go up and that means prices at Wal-Mart here in the US will go up too.
Erin Burnett of CNBC
posted on August 20th, 2007 in News| No Comments »
A few weeks ago I talked about how design effects users, comparing CNN.com and Foxnews.com. I was just checking both sites in a small break from studying for finals, and noticed two very contradicting reports on gas prices.
According to CNN.com, gas prices hit record highs and are on the way up. The story goes on to say that the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) cheif Guy Caruso says that, ” that not all of the recent rise in wholesale gas costs has been reflected in what consumers are now paying at the pump…” The summary of the story includes the line “…more price rises seen.”
Quite conversely,Foxnews.com reports that Gas prices may cool down. This report then goes on to say that EIA chief Guy Caruso (the same guy from the CNN report) states, “With refinery production expected to improve during the rest of May and import volumes increasing over the last few weeks, gasoline markets may ease somewhat, causing gasoline prices to recede from their current high levels.”
To be fair, the CNN report mentions a similar quote later in the story, and the Foxnews report mentions gas prices may remain tight this summer. I just find it interesting the stories from different news sources focus on such extreme differences in the same exact story. I think it is also important to mention that the Foxnews story is a Reuters story, giving it (in my eyes) a little more credibility.
posted on May 16th, 2007 in News, Politics| No Comments »
Don Imus
Everyone invariably knows about the ‘controversy’ surrounding Don Imus. He made a comment about The Lady Rutgers basketball team (on a side note, one most of the media shuns him for saying, but repeats it every chance they get). Now he’s been on Al Sharpton’s show and has been suspended for two weeks. Many are calling for him to be fired. And why? Because it was offensive? It was wrong? Maybe. Because they are too sensitive? More likely. In a politically correct world, everything is offensive to someone.
I’m not saying what he said wasn’t wrong. Sure, it was kind of racist and a little sexist. Should he be fired? NO. People make comments like that all the time. Sure he said it on the radio. But it’s nothing people haven’t heard before. And it’s his job to do the whole ’shock jock’ thing. Imus getting fired would say a whole hell of a lot about our freedom of speech.
And I can see it now. People will say I don’t understand. These girls were attacked. So is everyone. I get called out for my weight all the time. I’ve even been called a ‘greasy haired Italian.’ What do you want me to do? Get all upset? Round up all the fat Italians in America and protest? Those people aren’t worth my time. I fire some comment back at them and leave. And granted, this is a different situation. Imus is in the public eye. So is, for example, every rapper and pop artist. And they say things much more offensive than ‘nappy headed ho.’ I hate to break it to you, but Kelis’s ‘Mikeshake’ is not a dessert. Fergie isn’t singing about the architectural structure. Eminem isn’t sining about kill….O wait. He really is sining about killing his wife. So why crucify Imus?
Do Sharpton and Jackson really feel victimized by Imus’s comments? Probably not. They just play the race card…A LOT. That is indisputable. Should Imus apologize to the girls? Sure. That was kind of a shitty comment. I don’t think he should have been suspended. And if he gets fired, well then that’s something to protest about.
posted on April 11th, 2007 in Manifesto, News, Politics| No Comments »
Congrats to the Yankees, who with Boston’s loss clinched their 9th consecutive AL East division title! World Series here we come!
posted on September 20th, 2006 in News, Sports| No Comments »
