http://realitybucket.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:50:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 55? *headdesk* That link takes you to a nice concise explanation of why it's a bad idea, btw. http://realitybucket.com/index.php/2008/07/03/it-seems-like-its-repeating-itself-at-shorter-intervals-now/ I've got no idea why anybody would be puzzled by the reluctance of folks who are behind on their mortgage to just call their lender and try to work something out. When you just can't pay, what good would it do? And even if you could pay something, the prevailing image of ... http://realitybucket.com/index.php/2008/07/01/heres-something-else-that-baffles-me/ This one. Thatisall. http://realitybucket.com/index.php/2008/06/24/i-love-this-post/ By now, you've probably heard about the 17 pregnancies at the high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where apparently a bunch of girls decided it would be cool to get pregnant together and raise their babies concurrently. My thoughts are perhaps a bit different from some expressed out there. I do ... http://realitybucket.com/index.php/2008/06/23/gloucester-girls/ You wouldn't have to worry so much about how much of your money they're taking and who they might be giving it to if you could see that they have no true right to do so. You vote, you "legitimize" their theft, and then you complain that they don't conduct the ... http://realitybucket.com/index.php/2008/06/19/you-know/ It seems the issue of the day is drilling for oil. Well, yeah. If you don't pay, you can't play. It's absurd to have resources in the United States locked up so extensively, and I can't imagine so much of a conspiracy extant that we're intentionally sucking ... http://realitybucket.com/index.php/2008/06/19/this-is-only-a-drill/ test http://realitybucket.com/index.php/2008/06/18/test/ Obama's apparently talking about kicking the credit card folks where it hurts. Good. A pox on all those usurious motherfuckers. And before you make some sort of protest that cites the free market, what we've got now? Not one. Not even close. For crissake, if you're going to ... http://realitybucket.com/index.php/2008/06/16/damn-it-i-could-almost-like-the-guy/ I can talk all day about the abstract issues behind all of this, but try just looking at my life: We've fallen a bit down the economic ladder. Extended unemployment, yadda, yadda, yadda. In an effort to keep a roof over our heads, I've taken a job at the ... http://realitybucket.com/index.php/2008/06/12/you-wonder-why-folks-dont-vote/ CEH Wiedel discusses this Arnold Kling article as it applie to her own family and concerns about education and IQ. I have long and increasingly been of the opinion that things have to change. There are multiple problems or angles. First, not everything suits the "box" of a traditional college education, ... http://realitybucket.com/index.php/2008/06/01/we-dont-no-same-old-edumacation/