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Thursday, January 22, 2004

TWISTS & TURNS

You know how, on Survivor, you'll be going along, thinking you'll know what happens next, and then they'll pull some weird "we're going to re-shuffle the tribes" thing that you didn't see coming? King of the Blogs just pulled one of those:

By the power invested in me as Host and owner of the King of the Blogs I have removed Cranial Cavity from the competition. The reason for this is non-participation. I have received nothing from him, and the deadline passed on his answering of the Judge's Challenge. I will place him back in the queue to participate at a later date. As King of the Blogs, ChristWeb will be allowed to defend his crown from the final two participants. This action will set a precedent in King of the Blogs which reads like so:

"If any participant in Week 2 of the tournament fails to participate by the time given without notice, and the current King is not among the Final Three, the current King will be allowed to take his place. If the current King is already among the Final Three the blog with the highest score not among those already advanced will be allowed to take his place."

So:

Blown Fuse (new home here)
Vessel of Honour
and ChristWeb

get to slug it out this week. Meanwhile, Mr. Cavity - to the gallows with ye!

MUAHAHAHA!

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TV BLOGGING

I found this in my inbox today:

Does going out in the cold give you a cold? Is life getting worse? Can
    money buy happiness? Coinciding with the release of his book "Give Me a
    Break," John Stossel explores these questions and other common myths in
    a special edition of "20/20: Lies, Myths and Downright Stupidity with
    John Stossel," airing FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the
    ABC Television Network.

    Stossel reveals the top ten lists of things he once thought were true
    but turned out to be lies or myths, including:

    #10 BEING COLD GIVES YOU A COLD

    All over America, a million mothers are telling their kids, "don't go
    outside without a coat, you'll get sick." Stossel reports that this is
    not true. Scientists and the polar bear club debunk the myth. As it
    happens, more people get sick in the winter because they spend more time
    indoors passing viruses back and forth because people are closer to each
    other.

    #7 MONEY BUYS HAPPINESS

    People think money will buy happiness, and the rich often seem happy,
    but research by Money Magazine columnist Jean Chatsky and others report
    that more money makes people significantly happier only if their family
    income is below $30,000. After $50,000, money makes no difference.
    Stossel interviews Hip Hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons and his brother,
    Reverend Run, the lead rapper for Run DMC. The Reverend Run said he
    suddenly realized money wouldn't buy happiness when he was at the peak
    of his career, basking in a hot tub in a luxury hotel. "I got the
    presidential suite ...and it all came at once. Everybody is at my door.
    Rolling Stone magazine, doing a cover ..._my favorite dude was bringing
    my pancakes. The weed dude was at the door... the Rolls-Royces is
    coming... And it was too much. I realized, OK, I got it, God. I got it.
    I got it. This will not work. It is not gonna make me happy. And I
    changed at that moment.

    Simmons says he knows 15 billionaires, and 13 are unhappy. Says Simmons,
    "there is a constant battle to get more because it's a little bit of a
    rush. They are like drug addicts. They have to keep getting a rush."

    #6 REPUBLICANS SHRINK GOVERNMENT

    Republicans say they will shrink government, but they don't. At last
    year's State of the Union, President Bush received thunderous applause
    talking about "spending discipline," but since he became president, the
    government has hired a million more people, and increased spending.

    #5 RICH PEOPLE DON'T PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE

    All the Democratic Presidential candidates say that the wealthy do not
    pay their fair share. Stossel interviewed Rev. Al Sharpton, who said,
    "the rich pay...less than poor people for taxes. They should pay
    somewhere around 15 percent...They don't pay five percent." In fact, the
    top one percent - that's people earning more than $300,000 - pay 34%, or
    more than a third of all income taxes; the top 5% pay more than half.
    "That doesn't mean we couldn't pay more," says Stossel, "but let's at
    least tell the truth."

    #1

    Stossel's #1 lie, myth or stupidity will be revealed on the broadcast.
    To illustrate it, he goes swimming in the Hudson River.

    Other lies, myths and stupidity explored include: "guns are bad" and "we
    are drowning in garbage."

I might have to go set my VCR for this one.

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A GOOD QUESTION

Matty O'Blackfive popped off a good question:

Did any of you experience liberal OR conservative bias or discrimination in school?

For me, it was "yes and no". Most of my profs at UW-Whitewater were good enough not to wear their bias on their sleeves, but there were a few who did. This shocked me, because I was a business major (started with Accounting, tried Marketing, wound up with Finance). I would think that only hard-core capitalists would spend 8 or 10 years studying business, but there they were, with their success-hatred and their socialism. Nasty folk.

I mostly kept quiet, but at least once a period I'd have to go toe to toe with them. Firmly but politely arguing against their stupidity.

I'm pleased to report that not one of them ever took it out on my grades. In fact, despite often heated arguments, they were just so pleased to have a student with an active mind that they wouldn't have cared if I'd been a Martian Ninja Nazi.

So I've seen my share of academic liberal bias, but no discrimination.

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