http://whiteperil.com/2008/09/22/wolf-in-the-breast/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:45:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://whiteperil.com/2008/09/22/wolf-in-the-breast/comment-page-1/#comment-3319 Maria Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:51:16 +0000 http://whiteperil.com/?p=1610#comment-3319 I see your point, Sean. I just know that there are lots of different reasons for why people drop out or fail in school, that it isn't always because someone is an "idiot." The world and the human brain are much more complicated than that. But, I know you know that. It is sad how the discourse of our country gets chopped up into microscopic sound bites making it impossible to have a sophisticated nuanced discussion about the issues that really matter. I see your point, Sean. I just know that there are lots of different reasons for why people drop out or fail in school, that it isn’t always because someone is an “idiot.” The world and the human brain are much more complicated than that. But, I know you know that. It is sad how the discourse of our country gets chopped up into microscopic sound bites making it impossible to have a sophisticated nuanced discussion about the issues that really matter.

]]> http://whiteperil.com/2008/09/22/wolf-in-the-breast/comment-page-1/#comment-3318 Sean Kinsell Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:28:21 +0000 http://whiteperil.com/?p=1610#comment-3318 I agree, Maria--my point wasn't that Palin is more academically accomplished than Gore, only that she doesn't appear to have done too shabbily. I haven't heard anyone either touting or panning her performance in college, which probably indicates that it was solid but undistinguished. Gore's record is the sort of thing that, if it belonged to a Republican senator's son who'd grown up to become a blowhard social engineer, would be brought up constantly as evidence that he was an idiot and probably didn't understand the big concepts he was pushing. I agree, Maria–my point wasn’t that Palin is more academically accomplished than Gore, only that she doesn’t appear to have done too shabbily. I haven’t heard anyone either touting or panning her performance in college, which probably indicates that it was solid but undistinguished. Gore’s record is the sort of thing that, if it belonged to a Republican senator’s son who’d grown up to become a blowhard social engineer, would be brought up constantly as evidence that he was an idiot and probably didn’t understand the big concepts he was pushing.

]]> http://whiteperil.com/2008/09/22/wolf-in-the-breast/comment-page-1/#comment-3317 Maria Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:18:33 +0000 http://whiteperil.com/?p=1610#comment-3317 I don't think it's a fair comparison when both Gore and Palin received Bachelor's degrees, correct? Now, if Palin had finished grad school or law school, then, obviously, she would be showing greater academic achievement than Gore. But, they're equal, essentially, with undergraduate degrees. I don’t think it’s a fair comparison when both Gore and Palin received Bachelor’s degrees, correct? Now, if Palin had finished grad school or law school, then, obviously, she would be showing greater academic achievement than Gore. But, they’re equal, essentially, with undergraduate degrees.

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