Misguided

In an attempt to beef up security in China before the Beijing Olympics, Chinese citizens must now register their identities when they buy potentially dangerous knives. Knives being targeted include daggers with blood grooves, lock-knives, and knives with blades measuring over about 8 1/2 inches. So basically it is the same old story. All law abiding citizens will follow the laws [...]

At David Finkelhor says this: Ultimately, I do continue to believe that the prohibition on adult-child sexual contact is primarily a moral issue. While empirical findings have some relevance they are not the final arbiter. The social judgment that slavery is reprehensible would not have been challenged by empirical findings that some slaves felt positively [...]

Yeah, I'm one of them...my name is Kent and I'm a Drop Master. I've lost my way and I'm having a hard time breaking the habit. Some days I'll drop just a little when I first wake up and think I've got it under control. By mid-afternoon my fingers start to twitch and if I don't feed my addiction I know what I'll be doing right before the magic moment (midnight ET), after which I can relax and become a real person again. How did this happen? Why did I think that dropping 300 cards a day, mostly on the same people who I dropped on the day before, was a good thing? What is this self-loathing I feel for only dropping 293 cards the other day? What kind of monster has Entrecard turned me into? Thank goodness for Alexa sending most of the Entrecard community a nasty wake-up call yesterday. Ha! Yo

Boners: Seriously Misguided Facts- According to Schoolkids. Way before there existed a show called, "Kids Say the Darndest Things" there was a book published in 1931 called "Boners by Those Who Pulled Them" in the same spirit. Now you know I think the publishers of this book have some kind of ruse by keeping this title to get a chuckle out of adults or perhaps they pulled a boner of their own. Prudence was not practiced here, slang aside this book is another testament of Dr. Seuss from his early works and once again we can see where he plucked ideas from his past drawings, and in this book you will see what I mean. The uproarious 1931 New York Times bestseller is now back in print—beautifully redesigned to showcase the unmistakably brilliant original drawings by Dr. Seuss. What on earth is a boner? It’s an outrageous mistake—and in Boners, the craziest and funniest ones ever made by schoolkids are collected for sheer fu

If solar panels on Al Gore’s 20-room mansion and Vanity Fair’s 300-page annual green issue make you feel queasy about the eco-chic spin on our sustained environmental and energy crisis, then the Lexus LS 600h L might make you feel downright nauseous.The Top 10 list of why the Lexus LS 600h L is the most bizarre and misguided hybrid:A hybrid powertrain on a 5-liter V8 engine.430 horsepower (equivalent of 6-liter V12).City/highway mileage rating in the low 20s.70-percent cleaner emissions than the “cleanest” of its V8 competitors.Noise and vibration levels are about half of conventional cars. (“This is the kind of vehicle that travels slightly detached from the road, the local environment, and anyone else that doesn’t have a near 7-digit income,” writes Art Vatsky in AutoBlogGreen.) Since you can’t hear anything outside the cabin, the vehicle uses two-cameras and a radar system to detect approaching objects and humans. A third camera mounted on the steering column monitor

I’m a regular viewer of Your World with Neil Cavuto and yesterday he had a guest on who recently put together a dating web site that only caters to “beautiful” people with an emphasis on youth.  Neil asked the owner of this site how he is going to feel when he gets to middle age and is not so…well, not so young anymore.  The guy’s response was flippant and misguided.  He said that maybe it will happen when he’s 50 or 60, but he won’t get out of shape and they even have 45 year olds on the site.  He then indicated that less than 20% of the wannabes actually are able to post their profiles because they don’t cut the muster.      Here’s the problem (beyond the obvious shallowness of the concept) – young people are extremely misguided with respect to their perspectives on age.  As I tell my daughter, the VAST majority of your life is lived as an adult, not as a kid, that’s why her mom and I are trying to instill the values that

Iowa Education Board Defends Decision Yesterday, Mainstream Iowan blogged about the appeal of Travis Childs, a student from North Scott High School in Eldridge Iowa that was suspended from athletic competition for his senior year. His ineligibilty wasn't because of bad grades, criminal conduct, or disciplinary problems. Rather it was because his parents had allowed him to drink beer in their private home and in the presence of a parent. Reading the Iowa Code 123.47, this is legal and permissable.However, North Scott High School and the Board of Education maintain that they have a right to hold athletes to higher standards. A Rick Wulkow, executive director of the Iowa High School Athletic Association, said, "I think we have to remember: Participation in athletics is a privilege, not a right. When you accept privileges, higher standards go along with those."Gene Vincent, president of the State Board of Education, noted that comments posted about Childs' case on DesMoinesRegister.com l

Eliot Spitzer proposes “free” health insurance coverage for 400,000 uninsured children in the State of New York.  He admits that government involvement in health care has led to the sad state of affairs we have today. “What went wrong is that health care decision-making became co-opted by every interest other than the patient’s interest,” he told a group of health care industry executives in Albany on Friday. “Government abdicated its responsibility to set standards, demand results and hold institutions receiving billions in state tax dollars accountable to the state and to the people those institutions serve.” It makes absolutely no sense to increase the amount of government involvement.  The result will be even higher costs overall to taxpayers for health care services.  I am sick and tired of politicians increasing the commitment to failed government programs. Source: Buffalo News - Spitzer vows health insurance for stateR

DefCon is asking readers to contact Wal-Mart to protest their decision to sell the Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game. The game, developed by Christian extremist and bestselling author Tim LaHaye, depicts Christian players "converting or killing non-believers which can include Jews, Muslims, and Catholics." The heart of DefCon's protest seems to center on the idea that selling this game promotes religious violence. I wonder if they are also asking Wal-Mart to stop selling the Christian bible?I value freedom of speech, and this means that I seek to defend the freedom of individuals to create and sell material with which I do not agree or even find personally offensive. Thus, I don't see this particular protest as something worth supporting. Why must we be so quick to attempt to ban anything with which we disagree? This game could open a dialogue about the perils of religious violence and demonstrate that Christians should refrain from pointing the finger at Muslims when they suppo