Yeah, I read that story and couldn't decide on unabashed, unadulterated scorn or some more balanced anthropological angle. I don't deal with a lot of people this rich, but many of my students drive really nice cars, and I've wondered what's going to happen when they realize what must be done to keep up the income flow.
Can you imagine a society in which the skills at being successful were similar enough to the skills in raising children? Would such a society be desirable?
I somehow mangled 6, but I think the gist is clear. Consider the gauntlet thrown! I want a 12 page paper on the topic by Monday. Must include a brief exigesis (no more than 602 words) outlining Socrates' position on the subject as he expresses it in the Protagoras.
While I relish the pwnage, I'm glad to see Apo gave this it's own thread. It really does deserve more scorn than it could get buried in the comments.
Also, I would like to note that Anderson Cooper claims that My Super Sweet 16 is his favorite television show. In case there was one person left in the world still wondering about his sexuality.
Based on women's responses, researchers concluded that 15 percent of women surveyed had been raped and 12 percent had experienced an attempted rape. [National Review]
"27 percent. Or 3 percent. Why not just announce that there is no such thing as rape, ergo, problem solved. Zero is within the range of error, after all." [Vox Day]
He never mentioned his fourth Ph.D. in mathematics. So few commenters show such mastery over the Du Toitiative operation in mathematics.
Sometimes those debts come due. Also, scroll up; you've been pwned.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 11:26 AM
Yeah, I read that story and couldn't decide on unabashed, unadulterated scorn or some more balanced anthropological angle. I don't deal with a lot of people this rich, but many of my students drive really nice cars, and I've wondered what's going to happen when they realize what must be done to keep up the income flow.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 11:33 AM
scroll up; you've been pwned
Wow. I totally missed that part of the thread.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 11:35 AM
Cheer up, apo. Maybe you can be the first to talk about this. Or did a certain old comrade blog about that months ago?
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 12:27 PM
ac, are you farbing?
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 12:28 PM
Can you imagine a society in which the skills at being successful were similar enough to the skills in raising children? Would such a society be desirable?
Posted by michael | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 12:31 PM
I blogged it a couple of days ago. Was that behind the curve as well?
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 12:34 PM
1) I was going to say Manson, but Pol Pot is much better.
2) Anything that harmlessly parts rich people from their money is good in my books. We should be encouraging them to spend more on their brats.
3) Does anyone have any of these girl's phone numbers?
Posted by Central Content Provider | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 12:37 PM
Was that behind the curve as well?
No, no. See, you've still got it. I thought when I read it, I wonder if apostropher's seen that. And you had! You had!
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 12:45 PM
I somehow mangled 6, but I think the gist is clear. Consider the gauntlet thrown! I want a 12 page paper on the topic by Monday. Must include a brief exigesis (no more than 602 words) outlining Socrates' position on the subject as he expresses it in the Protagoras.
Posted by michael | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 12:50 PM
The spankings also were used to increase productivity from its work force.
This would be much funnier if the defense lawyer, rather than the plaintiff's lawyer, had said it.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 12:52 PM
2: There will be no justice, for the world is run neither by poets nor by after-school special TV producers.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 12:55 PM
FWIW, here's the woman who didn't like being spanked.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 12:57 PM
While I relish the pwnage, I'm glad to see Apo gave this it's own thread. It really does deserve more scorn than it could get buried in the comments.
Also, I would like to note that Anderson Cooper claims that My Super Sweet 16 is his favorite television show. In case there was one person left in the world still wondering about his sexuality.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 1:10 PM
See, you've still got it.
Sigh. Another round of antibiotics, then.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 1:11 PM
If the desire to scorn and mock these 16 year-old twerps should flag, we could always take up mocking Silvio Berlusconi again.
Posted by Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 1:27 PM
Don't forget about Vox Day, who provides us with the tip of the day: "If you have the opportunity and ability to rape a woman, just don't do it!"
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 1:35 PM
Is this before or after he beats up 1000 men at a time Jack-Bauer-style?
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 1:42 PM
in this post-feminist era, it's taboo to question sex-crime data or the claims of any alleged rape victim.
I always suspected that time wasn't the same for all people. I wonder when he's writing from.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 1:43 PM
Who loves this maneuver?
Based on women's responses, researchers concluded that 15 percent of women surveyed had been raped and 12 percent had experienced an attempted rape. [National Review]
"27 percent. Or 3 percent. Why not just announce that there is no such thing as rape, ergo, problem solved. Zero is within the range of error, after all." [Vox Day]
He never mentioned his fourth Ph.D. in mathematics. So few commenters show such mastery over the Du Toitiative operation in mathematics.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 04-27-06 1:59 PM