tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post7692922401038708964..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: Grading On A Scale Of 'F' to 'F-"James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-67051564763970338362010-09-17T10:35:01.672-04:002010-09-17T10:35:01.672-04:00"Universal Truth and Waxy Yellow Buildup are ..."Universal Truth and Waxy Yellow Buildup are two very different things."<br /><br />I dunno. Ever been to Waco?Sator Arepohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00006808744513156317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-86520958367819765792010-09-17T08:37:20.269-04:002010-09-17T08:37:20.269-04:00Richard Hofstadter warned us about this almost fif...Richard Hofstadter warned us about this almost fifty years ago. If you read "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" it's eerie how completely up to date it reads.<br /><br />Except for the parts where he talks about how everyone now accepts evolution and nobody takes Biblical literalism seriously. Those moments are clearly a product of their time.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16371363571092946834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-62529016614340231012010-09-16T15:40:08.490-04:002010-09-16T15:40:08.490-04:00I'm old enough to have learned to type on a ma...I'm old enough to have learned to type on a manual typewriter. It took much greater skill to type up a decent document on a typewriter than it does on a computer. You had to plan ahead to center something or set tabs to line up columns correctly, or even to keep from running off the bottom of the page. You needed much greater accuracy because corrections were such a pain. You had to have Rugosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04348056243298249939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-5348979160561176042010-09-16T15:16:32.521-04:002010-09-16T15:16:32.521-04:00Speaking of anti-intellectual, the proper leetspea...Speaking of anti-intellectual, the proper leetspeak spelling is "buttsecks".RobertBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-33326224284165131562010-09-16T12:55:56.574-04:002010-09-16T12:55:56.574-04:00"You can't be an anti-intellectual countr..."You can't be an anti-intellectual country and expect high achievement, or not high achievement that isn't the result of cheating on the test."<br /><br />I think you have it exactly right here, Mr. Riley. There has been a great deal of time and effort spent in my lifetime (and I'm sure beyond that) devaluing the very idea of education. The very concept that <i>knowing Bill in OHnoreply@blogger.com