Liars. And the idiots who listen to them and go: oh yeah, this thing that you’ve just said contrary to common sense and all my own experience, that must be true because you have said it so authoritatively and because I want to believe it! For instance, here’s one.
So if you find [...]
As part of the heady intellectual atmosphere around here, we get to listen to Fox News in the cafeteria at all hours. This morning’s hard-hitting journalism was a rant against schools not teaching children cursive anymore. Even better than the raw retardation of this topic as serious news was the way the argument [...]
This blog post, from internet-social-research person danah boyd, probably won’t interest you, in and of itself. She’s talking about a study she co-authored on the ‘dangers of the internet’ to children:
For the our Task Force Report, I helped create a Research Advisory Board Literature Review where, along with the tremendous help of Andrew Schrock, [...]