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Mole

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  1. Terrible call, but I can’t even get mad.
  2. I’m a Harry Seaward man myself.
  3. I would say not having to go to Oklahoma is getting off light.
  4. My friends call it a “deranged screed”, several batches of restraining orders call it an “unhinged manifesto,” but I call it my magnum opus: last summer I may have sent in a small 250 page excerpt from an informational document highlighting some of the more compelling reasons for some badly needed uniform updates (the usual suspects — capes, shoes with glitter spurs, and bigger Nike logos). I hope this thread doesn’t doxx me, but I guess greater visibility for my ideas would be welcomed.
  5. Do the reports discuss the likelihood the patients are lizard people?
  6. If the toddler model is the approach that cops should take, he should have guided her in singing a song about how angry she was, let her say bye-bye to everyone and everything in the bank, and then told her how proud he was of her for leaving without a tantrum.
  7. When I read the title, I figured it would be a righteous rant about how my out-of-state tax dollars will be going to save Texas from their irresponsible power management policies. Texans saving money for years and then coming hat in hand when the bill is due. I was ready to provide whole-hearted support of the righteous indignation. But alas, it was just a barely sensible partisan rant. We live in a society. Social contract out front should have told you.
  8. Jennifer with a G is like Robert with a W.
  9. I thought this one already came up during one of the caravans.
  10. My wife and I joined team Pfizer this morning. I’m a little disappointed that my 40 time hasn’t gotten any faster, but at least there haven’t been any negative side effects yet. It feels really good to see a path out of this for my family.
  11. Mole

    “Cuck”

    As I’m sure my friends are tired of hearing me say this, but it’s a fundamental truth, if you think a slightly higher marginal tax rate is better, or if you think the universal healthcare would be a more efficient allocation of our resources, or if you’re against the violent overthrow of the government, then you are either actively working to traffic children or you like to watch other men have their way with your wife. There’s no other possible explanation.
  12. Mr. Wizard’s longcat was more redemptive and at the time seemed sadly more believable.
  13. Tomorrow morning I’m going to start tracking the direction the sun rises from to see if I can establish a pattern in a few years.
  14. She’s kind of a big deal. She rightly called Trumpism idolatry recently. The evangelical Trumpers that I know already somewhat rejected her over it and found themselves make defenses of Christian nationalism in the process. The SBC seems to be one step forward, two steps back. In the past several years they’ve made a few real positive steps in redeeming their explicitly racist founding but then they keep stepping in it over race and other issues. For example, without really consulting the faculty, the seminary presidents jointly rejected critical race theory as any kind of useful framework.
  15. Like you, I am a professor of something other than English. And also like you, I’ve never had a bribe attempt. Still, there’s something amiss here. I’m struggling to articulate precisely what the issue is, but the government paying students for grades changes the nature of the relationship between teacher, parent, and student in some ways that seem troubling to me. It doesn’t have to simply be the grift aspect. The payoff might be worth this change in dynamic, but I don’t think it’s wise to pretend that things wouldn’t be different. I suspect that there would be significant pushback from teachers due to these changes. It could exacerbate the already adversarial relationship that seems to exist between some parents and teachers. Good grades and recommendations leading to better paying jobs or even scholarships is abstracted enough from the monetary payoff to be different than the government making it rain for high scoring essays by second graders. If they were the same, no one would suggest paying students for good grades, since they would already be motivated by the benefits of a good education. I think it’s an interesting idea, but there are problems.
  16. Put another way, my parents paid me for good grades and it was a motivating factor. It also served to perpetuate a supportive relationship between parent and teacher. My parents were supporting the work of my teachers. Outside money turns this relationship on its head. Teachers already complain about the toxic, unsupportive relationship with many parents and this looks like it could make things worse. There might be ways to pull it off, but there are ways it could really make things worse as well.
  17. I tend to like the general idea of monetary and other incentives, but tying it to grades invites some problems. If the money is enough to be an incentive, it’s probably enough to draw and all sorts of issues: grift, an even less supportive relationship between parents and teachers, etc. It introduces a whole new set of weird pressures on the teachers which doesn’t seem healthy. There might be ways to pull it off, but there are some problems. Simply tying it to attendance eliminates most of these problems although it might lessen the positive learning impact.
  18. Maybe Deion could reopen his Prime Academy to start pulling in that a sweet B+ government cash.
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