You morons won't read this. Well, the female morons will.

As Sommers understood, it is boys’ aggressive and rationalist nature—redefined by educators as a behavioral disorder—that’s getting so many of them in trouble in the feminized schools. Their problem: they don’t want to be girls.

Well Duh.

Going along with Michael's post, this is the nature of primary and secondary schools in America today: feminized, rudderless, geared towards self-esteem and promoting the age of Aquarius. College Diplomas are a commodity because the education has been reduced to least common denominators. What value is there in a degree that guarantees that everyone is, in the aggregate, monolithically below average?

But that's not exactly what this article is about ... It's about the feminization of the schools and how it hurts boys. And somewhere in there is probably a piece of the "Liberalism in America" puzzle. more...

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It used to be a big deal to graduate from college. With your degree in hand, you had a ticket to the upper middle class lifestyle.

But these days, so many people are graduating from college that the diploma means less and does not have the same economic clout.

By Michael Mandel
Wed Aug 30, 3:08 AM ET

Young college grads are taking it on the chin. That's what the new data from the government show -- and it's not a pretty sight.

On Tuesday, Aug. 29, the statisticians at the Census Bureau released the latest numbers on income and poverty, for 2005.

. . .

Perhaps the most distressing figure was one buried deep inside the detailed tables. It turns out that the median earnings of young college grads, adjusted for inflation, fell by an astonishing 3.3% in 2005. That's on top of similar declines in 2004 and 2003. All told, the earnings of young college grads are down by almost 8% since 2002. [For a related chart, see BusinessWeek.com, 8/29/06, "Young College Grads in Free Fall."]

By young college grads, we mean full-time workers between the ages of 25 and 34, with a B.A. but no advanced degree. These are people who first entered the workforce during the past 10 to 12 years, some during the boom, some during the early years of the bust. What they've experienced over the past several years is an unrelenting downdraft in wages, probably the first sustained decline for college grads since the 1970s.

Back in the day, you got out of college, worked a few years to get established, and then you bought your starter home and had kids.

Not any more.

What's more, many of them have also been stuck on the wrong side of the housing boom. Just coming out of college, they didn't have the savings or the income to buy a house. And with home prices rising faster than their incomes, it's been very hard for them to catch up.

Pocket of Pain for Young Graduates

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Since Ace likes to occasionally surprise his readers with a swarm of guest bloggers no one has ever heard of, and me, I thought I'd act the gentleman and provide a bit of an introduction. The fact that I'm basically re-linking a bunch of my old stuff, however, is not to be interpreted as the basest form of traffic-whoring -- after all, if I'm too lazy to actually post anything on my blog anymore, what difference does it make whether I get any traffic or not?

Without further ado:
Dave in Texas
Innocent Bystanders
Blog Idaho
Jack M.
Dave from Garfield Ridge
John from Wuzzadem

And of course, our gracious host, Ace.

"Hello gorgeous!"

Posted by: Ace at 07:16 PM | Comments (17)
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That right there is a cast of the first solid poop produced by the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Tom has already made an asshole out of himself by obessing about this kid, buying his own sonogram machine, etc. I'm thinking Tom and Katie have enough PR problems without this.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have yet to show their baby daughter off in public, but eager fans were given an unusual preview with the chance to see a bronze cast depicting her first solid stool.

The scatological sculpture -- more doodoo than Dada -- is purportedly cast from 19-week old Suri's first bowel movement and will be shown at the Capla Kesting gallery in Brooklyn, New York, before being auctioned off for charity.

The artist behind the work, Daniel Edwards, previously courted controversy with a life-size nude sculpture of pop star Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug. That work was shown at the same gallery in April.

"A bronzed cast of baby's first poop can be a meaningful memento for the family," gallery director David Kesting said, adding that he hoped the work would attract bids of up to 25 or 30,000 dollars.

Are they frickin' nuts? They're actually trying to sell this thing?

Oh wait. It's for a good cause.

The sculpture, which sits on a wooden mounting with a glass casing, is to be sold on eBay next month with proceeds from the sale going to infant health charity March Of Dimes.

Aw, that's kinda sweet. It's not some weird ego thing. Tom and Katie are willing to look like total fucktards, selling off a bronze cast of their baby's poop, all for the cause of raising a whole buncha money for the March of Dimes.

As of Wednesday it had attracted a top bid of 41 dollars.

"Tomkitten's" 'first poop' goes on display in New York

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He followed the chain of command.

He tried to work within the system.

They wanted to break him.

So he made them his BITCH. And he broke THEM.

With video.

Which killed the radio star.

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SCIENCE:

A whopping 650 days will be dedicated solely to creating a 'salon look' in her own bathroom. The average woman splashes out a monthly average of £10.08 on shampoos and conditioners, £14.03 on home styling products and £301.14 a year on haircuts and colouring.

She spends the equivalent of 41 minutes at home every day washing, styling and restyling. A third of women say their hair is the most important part of their appearance, and they spend more time styling their hair than doing their make-up.

The poll of 2,500 women was conducted by Boots in conjunction with the launch of the UK's first ever home lotion-based straighten kit.

Is anyone at all surprised by this? If so, you've never met a woman in your life.

Obviously, a woman with longer hair is going to have to spend more time on her coif than one with shorter hair. But regardless of length, women spend roughly 87 more hours a day on their hair than men.

Honestly, if I didn't have to shave, my total bathroom time would be on the order of three minutes. One minute to fill the bathtub, one minute to turn on the shower, and another minute pretending I'm in a submarine that got hit.

Speaking Of Submarines: Hey, look at this site-- a page dedicated to speeches in movies, including this one from Crimson Tide.

I can't believe they don't have Patton, though. . . sheesh, talk about an oversight.

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It's called priapism, and if left untreated it can kill.

He's got one of the worst cases I've ever seen.

Worse than mine, even.

The Arab world is waking up to its potential power. It has seen the Iraqis confound Anglo-American efforts to recolonise their country, the unbreakability, whatever the cost, of the Palestinian resistance, and now the success of Hizbullah. If there is no settlement there can only be war, war and more war, until one day it is Tel Aviv which is on fire and the Israeli leaders' intransigence brings the whole state down on their heads. Nor is it only Israel that will pay the price for continued conflict: the enduring injustice of Palestinian dispossession has already poisoned western-Muslim relations and helped spill violence and hatred on to our own streets. There is still time to choose peace. But make no mistake, with the victory of Hizbullah, a terrible beauty is born.

Galloway's website advertises him as "the Frank Sinatra of politics," which is stupid for two reasons.

One: there's only one ersatz Sinatra worthy of the name.

And two: he's got chunks of guys like Galloway in his stool.

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I want you all to read that in the tortured melange that is Brando in On The Waterfront.

(Life experience 2786: in a conversation, use the word "melange" like a Northeastern Senator suffering rectal-cranial inversion - Check!)

At any rate, The Boys of Powerline fisked Frist and found him formidable and fabulous fantastic feisty fiery damned good.

But I was impressed by the close-up contact I had today. Frist is deadly serious about the war on terror, the pre-eminent issue of our era. He tells a chilling story of receiving a call from President Bush a week before the recent British airline bomb plot was disrupted. The message at that time, communicated to less than a handful of top federal officials, was that a terrorist plan was known to be in progress which could kill several thousand Americans, but there was no assurance that it could be stopped. It was stopped, thankfully, and news accounts suggest that the very terrorist surveillance programs now under attack by the Democrats were instrumental in saving thousands of American lives. Senator Frist is fully committed to using all of the appropriate tools at our command to win the war against Islamic terror, and September will see a series of legislative initiatives designed to strengthen our defenses against the terrorists.

The next time you consider voting Democrat, consider how they would react on hearing that news. The waltz would be Leak-to-the-press-Leak-to-the-press-Panic. And then blame Bush.

The Majority Leader also made a point on taxes that surprised nearly all of his listeners. If you take a family of four, with an average American income of $64,000 per year, and assume that the Democrats regain control of either the House or the Senate and block the extension of the Bush tax cuts, as they are committed to doing, what would be the impact on that average family? A federal tax increase of 58%. That's what the Democratic Party stands for.

Damn. I'd just be happy to hear Frist throw that in the DNC's face. It's not that it's truth to power or anything silly like that (of course it's true) - it's that Democrats only debate nowadays using lies, obfuscation, and denial. Deny this.

Sadly, there is also this ...

He needs to beef up his Presidential persona, by, for example, learning what to do with his legs when he is addressing a group.

. . .

I'm not sure how to take this.

I could say the same thing about Jessica Simpson (Yes! Do that again!). Or with another meaning altogether, about Hillary (Yes, please put them back under the table ...). But with Frist, it's just a hell of a thing to say. If a guy's body language is so bad that you make note of it, presidential timbre he may not have.

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Via NRO.

This will, presumably, be one of those "good will" visits that involve the sort of speeches in which Khatami simultaneously says that A) We have nothing to fear from Iran, and B) They're going to rain down hellfire on us if we don't watch our step.

But never mind all that; we expect this sort of thing from the State Department. What really burns your ass is that he's being hosted by the National Cathedral. Here's their description of him.

Click the link: It's a New York Times-worthy piece of dishonest, sycophantic flattery.

"Reformist President"? Check.

"Elected with the broad support of women and young adults"? Check.

"Man of Peace"? Check.

By the time they're done, they've all but lifted up his robe and given him a handjob.

Then again, do you really expect seriousness from a church that has a statue of Darth Vader?

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to make her slimmer.

CBS News President Sean McManus expresses shock and surprise.

The article says "news division president ‘surprised’ at discovery of digital airbrushing"

"Ooooeeee" exclaimed McManus. "I ain't never heard of such a thang. You can make people look different in a pitcher with this fancy 'air-brush' thang".

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