"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Monday, January 02, 2006

Huh ?

Let's just call it a bit of a head scratcher ...

2005's Kind of Progress - Newsweek Columnists - George Will:

"Onward and upward with progressivism: In a Las Vegas suburb, the United Food and Commercial Workers union hired temp workers at $6 an hour to picket a nonunion Wal-Mart, where wages start at $6.75 an hour.

A British teachers-union official proposed that instead of bad students' receiving a 'failing' grade, their grade should be called 'deferred success.'

A Milwaukee 17-year-old and his father sued to end summer homework because the stress of honors precalculus assignments spoiled the lad's summer.

When Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of actor Will Smith, told a Harvard audience that women 'can have it all—a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career,' the campus Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance said its members were made 'uncomfortable' because Mrs. Smith's words were 'extremely heteronormative.'"

Heteronomative ?

OK ... I suppose

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