Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Shirtless Student Ticks Me Off And maybe I'm just in a really, really pissy mood because of those pricks in Kansas who feel god-like enough to go around rewriting the very definition of science... ...but this news item totally annoyed me.  A Shirt Isn't a Prerequisite. Chapman student who doesn't like wearing them becomes a campus sensation. [Inside Higher Ed] I mean, news crews are following this guy around and the L. A. Times does a profile on him - because he goes shirtless? Why does this piss me so royally off?  Because - imagine a woman deciding she'd just like to go shirtless all the time.  Let's just say for the sake of our little thought experiment that she'll agree to wear a bra - but no shirt.  Ever. Just like our male object of adoration here.  Who apparently decorates his nipples, according to the seasons and his moods. Janet Jackson's nipple - a national outrage. Jacob Authier's nipples - (sing with me now) more, more, more! how do you like it, how do you like it? more, more more!   I am so f-cking pissed at this in my face example of the freedom that men have in this culture that we women can never even dream of.  There are actual debates about whether it is offensive for women to breast feed their children in public spaces.  But Jacob Authier's festive green St. Patrick's Day nipples rate a fan club.  No wonder there is a whole blog called I Blame the Patriarchy.  And things like this are why I have it linked on my blogroll.  5:13:31 PM    comment [] trackback [] Humpty Dumpty Goes to Kansas And here is why we must laugh when we can at the Intelligent Design crowd... Quick Takes: Defeat for Evolution in Kansas, Income Decline Projected, U. of Colorado Foundation Criticized, 12 to Receive U.S. Humanities Medals, Senate Proposes Extension of College Tax Break [Inside Higher Ed] Read more about it here... O my beloved Kansas.  I miss you so much, your beautiful blue sky, your gorgeous sunsets, even those terrifying thunderstorms.  I am so sorry that the Design crowd has got a stranglehold on the neck of your Board of Education.  Your poor children, how stupid they are about to become.  Your poor science teachers, about to be forced to prostitute themselves in the classroom, whoring for the Discovery Institute's agenda to infest everyone with their brand of fundamentalist morals.  Isn't it odd that the only members of the board who voted to inject theology into science classrooms and call it "teaching the debate" were Republicans?  Thank you, to the two Republicans who joined the two Democrats in voting no and trying desperately to keep Kansas from being the laughingstock of the world once more.  Supporters of the standards said they will promote academic freedom. "It gets rid of a lot of dogma that's being taught in the classroom today," said board member John Bacon, an Olathe Republican. I nearly puked when I read that.  I used to live in Olathe.  This guy could have been my neighbor.  I lived within 5 miles of someone who can say that forcing science teachers to talk about theology is "getting rid of a lot of dogma that's being taught in the classroom".  There's more. In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena. How do you like that.  Six Republicans in Kansas have rewritten the definition of science.  Six Republicans in Kansas have said "Science - you are no more!  Poof!"  Six Humpty Dumptys said "When I use the word Science, it means what I want it to mean."    4:58:50 PM    comment [] trackback [] Intelligent Design and Beyond... Read this for a good laugh.  Then read the comments.  Gary is a puffed-up self-righteous moron with no sense of humor whatsoever.  I swear to god, if those Intelligent Designers are going to be taking over our science classrooms, then they are just going to have to put up with a little bit of poking fun at 'em.  Or maybe a whole lot of it.  If I offended anyone by spelling god with lowercase g, or by using the word god in the way I did - lighten up.  I am not referring to your god, whomsoever that may be.  How do you know my god doesn't like being referred to with lowercase g?  She's not picky that way, you know.  Designed to Please. God in the science classroom? What's next? David Galef wonders. [Inside Higher Ed] 4:40:13 PM    comment [] trackback []

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