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Jun. 28th, 2004 04:33 pm
Quote of the day
"Without hope, we give up. I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it life is not worth living. You and you and you have got to see that the promise does not fade." -- Harvey Milk
Jun. 28th, 2004
Pet peeve of the day:
People who can't be bothered to do the tiniest bit of research into an issue before they go screaming and hollering at someone who clearly *has* done their homework. Yes, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but for fuck's sake, at least read a bit about a subject before you go railing about it. All you do is come off like an absolute idiot. Opinions don't have universally equal weight. Opinions which have research and education behind them are far more credible. So don't expect that someone is going to bother listening to a childish, straw man-filled rant about something you know next to nothing about.
Pet peeve of the day #2:
The political climate in the US for the last 20 or so years which has made education a dirty word. Why is "intellectual elite" considered an insult? Why is cutting funding for education even an option? Why don't people have any respect for academics? Why are things like getting rid of discussions of evolution in science classes even happening?
( Well, I know why, actually )
People who can't be bothered to do the tiniest bit of research into an issue before they go screaming and hollering at someone who clearly *has* done their homework. Yes, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but for fuck's sake, at least read a bit about a subject before you go railing about it. All you do is come off like an absolute idiot. Opinions don't have universally equal weight. Opinions which have research and education behind them are far more credible. So don't expect that someone is going to bother listening to a childish, straw man-filled rant about something you know next to nothing about.
Pet peeve of the day #2:
The political climate in the US for the last 20 or so years which has made education a dirty word. Why is "intellectual elite" considered an insult? Why is cutting funding for education even an option? Why don't people have any respect for academics? Why are things like getting rid of discussions of evolution in science classes even happening?
( Well, I know why, actually )
