To know what you prefer instead of humbly
saying Amen to what the world tells you you
ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Quote of the Day
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is
to live like ants instead of like men.
Mortimer Adler
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Quote of the Day
Reality is that which, when you stop
believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick
Monday, May 26, 2008
Quote of the Day
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently
that which should not be done at all.
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Quote of the Day
Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope
to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually,
the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better
off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better
still, jump in the water and swim for the shore.
Thomas Szasz
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Quote of the Day
If they can get you asking the wrong questions,
they don't have to worry about the answers.
Thomas Pynchon
Friday, May 23, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Quote of the Day
There is no greater challenge than to have
someone relying upon you; no greater
satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
Kingman Brewster
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Holy Guacamole!!
This quote from a piece about conservativism could apply to many (all?) movements.
I think it most certainly says it all about the feminist movement:
Pat Buchanan was less polite, paraphrasing the social critic Eric Hoffer:
Ain't that the truth!
I think it most certainly says it all about the feminist movement:
Pat Buchanan was less polite, paraphrasing the social critic Eric Hoffer:
“Every great cause begins as a
movement, becomes a business, and
eventually degenerates into a racket.”
Ain't that the truth!
Quote of the Day
History may be divided into three movements:
what moves rapidly, what moves slowly, and
what appears not to move at all.
Fernand Braudel
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Quote of the Day
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the
face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Monday, May 19, 2008
Quote of the Day
In my many years I have come to a conclusion
that one useless man is a shame, two is a law
firm, and three or more is a congress.
John Adams
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Quote of the Day
There is only one success -
to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Friday, May 16, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Quote of the Day
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Quote of the Day
What we call progress is the exchange
of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis
Monday, May 12, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Quote of the Day
The secret of joy in work is contained
in one word - excellence. To know how
to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Buck
Friday, May 09, 2008
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Quote of the Day
An appeaser is one who feeds a
crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Quote of the Day
Vitality shows in not only the ability
to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
From Anecdotes to Mythology
Yes, I'm stirred up again.First, it was Diana Nyad and her "anecdotes" comment.
This time it's Penn State's Marie Hardin that's poured gasoline on the fire.
On her blog, Sports, Media & Society, she posted a piece about Title IX.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Still misunderstood: Title IX at 35
I've written before about media coverage of Title IX, and here's another study of interest to women's sports advocates: An analysis of editorials in the nation's major newspapers shows that "men as victims" mythology lives on even in arguments that generally support the law. It's the "we know women should have equal rights in theory, but ...." line of reasoning -- which can be used to ultimately justify inequity.
I wrote a comment that hasn't yet made it onto the post. In case it's never made public, here it is:
as a swimmer, coach, and father of sons who swim, i've seen first-hand the damage that title ix has caused in our sport.
to claim that it's "mythology" is a tremendous insult.
title ix activists have used spin, intimidation, as well as fudged statistics to hide the fact that title ix enforcement is wiping out men's sports.
thanks to title ix, more women have had opportunities in athletics than in the past. that's what it's supposed to be all about.
those who've had children may soon begin to look at it from a different angle, though.
many of their sons won't have the same opportunities to participate in collegiate athletics.
hardly a myth...more like a sad truth.
Quote of the Day
In any moment of decision, the best
thing you can do is the right thing.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Quote of the Day
The dead might as well try to speak
to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Sibert Cather
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Friday, May 02, 2008
The Truth Within the Lie
They sure hate to admit it, but Title IX activists know that men's sports are being harmed as a direct result of the way it's being enforced.The latest to slip up and stray from the party line that "it's all about the money" is Diana Nyad.
She has strong opinions on athletic funding in colleges, saying that men's football and basketball should operate on their own budgets, and that would allow a number of men's sports, now relegated to club status, to make a reappearance.
"Like a lot of laws, like the Constitution itself, laws are instituted, and times change," she said. "Today, there are so many anecdotes of (men's) sports being dropped around the country, and it's just not because of Title IX.
"I'm not the only one who feels this way. Football and basketball should operate the way they do, and put aside all the rest of that pie, all the rest of the money that comes in through federal funding, and it should be divided equally among boys and girls sports, so we still have gymnastics, tennis, wrestling, what the men want to do, and all the things women want to do. Take football and basketball out of the equation.
"The law was never meant to take men away from playing sports."
Read the article from The Arizona Republic here.
Got that fellers?
ANECDOTES!
Quote of the Day
Don't be fooled into believing that because
a man is rich he is necessarily smart.
There is ample proof to the contrary.
Julius Rosenwald
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Quote of the Day
I cannot and will not cut my
conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Florence Hellman