Quote of the Day

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

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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is

to live like ants instead of like men.

Mortimer Adler

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You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

W.H. Auden

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We hang the petty thieves and appoint

the great ones to public office.

Aesop

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Reality is that which, when you stop

believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently

that which should not be done at all.

Peter Ferdinand Drucker

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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

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions,

they don't have to worry about the answers.

Thomas Pynchon

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Scoundrels are always sociable.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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There is no greater challenge than to have

someone relying upon you; no greater

satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

Kingman Brewster

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:

“Every great cause begins as a

movement, becomes a business, and

eventually degenerates into a racket.”

Ain't that the truth!

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History may be divided into three movements:

what moves rapidly, what moves slowly, and

what appears not to move at all.

Fernand Braudel

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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

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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

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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Maria Callas

Quote of the Day

There is only one success -

to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

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Character consists of what you

do on the third and fourth tries.

James Michener

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War is not nice.

Barbara Bush

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible

will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

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What we call progress is the exchange

of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

Quote of the Day

There are three kinds of lies:

lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

John Cotton Dana

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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

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An acre of performance is

worth a whole world of promise.

William Dean Howells

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An appeaser is one who feeds a

crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Vitality shows in not only the ability

to persist but the ability to start over.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Quote of the Day

The dead might as well try to speak

to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Sibert Cather

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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow

man catches up with the swift.

Homer

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

Quote of the Day

I cannot and will not cut my

conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Florence Hellman