As Richard Dawkins once put it:
“Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.”

As prof. Cox touched on, we don't just need people at college/university, but we need a public that understands the scientific method and thinking. I mean forget higher education for a bit, what we need, is middle school and hell, kindergardens, that teach kids HOW to think, not what to think. You dont need everyone to know the mass of the Higgs or what the Golgi apparatus does, what you need is for everyone to understand what kind of thinking that led to discover such facts, we need humans trained in the art of critical thinking, people with stimulates the brain. If kids have learned nothing else in school by the age of 15, at least they should have learned critical thinking.

This man is a super star. I highly recomend his book 'The Pluto Files', where he got death threats from kindergarden kids, scribbled in crayon, over the demotion of pluto to a dwarf planet. Futher more, in
juxtaposition (in support of the demotion), The following comes from
astro'physicist Howard Brenner:

"F##k pluto, it was a sorry excuse for a planet anyhow, good riddance to bad solar trash, but now that the name is free, why not rename Uranus Pluto and get rid of all that grade school snickering."

Very entertaining book and a nice sift

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I know you are feeling hurt and wronged and that justice has not been served - and I'm not saying BB2 is without blame - but now you are entering harassment territory.

Last time, I spent a little effort crafting a diplomatic warning that asked you nicely to desist and stop contacting this user. I don't have the energy to keep playing kindergarden cop for this incident.

You are trying to post abuse to this user but skirt the boundaries of our guidelines. I'll repeat what I put in the warning - I'm not a 'bot looking for keywords. If I were a bot - I wouldn't be feeling frustration and anger at the way one user can treat another in comments.

Chicchorea, I'm sure you're a nice person in the flesh, and I appreciate all of the good things you have contributed to the Sift, but I'm suspending your account indefinitely for harassment and not heeding the first warning.

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Finally, something you say that means anything.

. to you too!

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>> ^thumpa28:

>> ^rougy:
^ You cock-sucking piece of shit.

You wish you turd. Why dont you pull your head out of whatever passes for your fantasy world of black and white and smell the roses instead of sucking on the zombie tit of whatever the latest video tells you your opinion should be. After youve gotten out of kindergarden of course.


You're a god damned fascist. You talk like a fascist and you act like a fascist.

You're entire line of reasoning is completely in step with the likes of Hitler and Mussolini.

God damn you to hell.

This war, these wars I should say, have done nothing to "maintain my standard of living" as you imply. Quite the opposite. They have driven my country to the brink of bankruptcy and caused us a great loss in terms of honor and dignity in the eyes of the world.

Fuckers like you brought it to pass.

I stand against you, to the death.

>> ^rougy:

^ You cock-sucking piece of shit.


You wish you turd. Why dont you pull your head out of whatever passes for your fantasy world of black and white and smell the roses instead of sucking on the zombie tit of whatever the latest video tells you your opinion should be. After youve gotten out of kindergarden of course.

>> ^Stormsinger:
Seems to me that by five, a kid should know how to get help in an emergency. Way to prepare your kid to survive in the real world...


Fuck off. The kid is 5.

Without knowing what's going on, the world is a scary fucking place. He was forced off the bus not knowing where he was, with nobody to talk to. What was he supposed to do?

Your parents fill your head with "Don't talk to strangers, they could be bad people" when you're that age, not to mention you're 5 and your imagination can get the best of you, so you probably wont approach any houses.

And..since he's 5, he probably doesn't have anything like a cell phone.

what the hell do you want?

What could POSSIBLY have prepared a 5 year old for this?

It's not even like he's been going to the school for long, he's - 5 -, this is his either first or second year at the school depending on where he went to kindergarden, so he wouldn't have the route memorized.
Or, when was this? Seems to me that unless its a new/replacement bus driver, this may even have taken place at the beginning of the school year.

it seems like it was the most bizzare things that I remembered most vividly as a child. The old cafeteria lady in kindergarden was named Shirly. She shifted widley from one foot to the other when she walked, like a penquin. we would eat in this long hallway type room, with two long rows of tables on opposite sides of the room. The space in between the isles was so narrow that there was very little room to turn around once you had started walking. Shirly had the largest breasts I had ever seen on a woman, just enormous, they easily strecthced a foot away from her torso. It was Shirleys job to keep the kids in line while we ate. Her waddling gait was so extreme that when she shifted from side to side she would inadvertantly smack the children with her large breasts one by one as she walked the legnth of the tables. We would post lookouts to see when she was getting close, not to cease the horesplay but to shift foreward in our seats to avoid having her giant boobs smack us in the head as she passed.

Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Marge goes on a crusade against porn but then is confronted by the hypocrisy of her zeal when Michelangelo's David fit's the same definition.

I remember a kindergarden teachers comment about field trips to the museum - the tykes will oggle the appendages of a Venus or David for a few seconds then move on to the far more interesting dinosaur exhibit.

Good God this was amusing!

"Like a kindergardener waiting for a bathroom break" - Rachel Maddow

not exactly my choice of quotes.. too many arnolds... and his famous one isn't there too boot.
Here's a list of the quotes from which movies.. i don't recognize some of the scenes tho, indicated with a ???
1. Rocky 4?
2. Kindergarden Cop
3. Snakes on a Plane
4. Jerry Maguire
5. Karate Kid
6. Billy Madison (Adam Sandler)
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Wedding crashers (Mom the meatloaf)
9. Kindergarden Cop
10 Top Gun
11 The Departed
12 Dazed and Confused
13 ???? (B&W Scene)
14 Snakes on a Plane
15 Happy Gilmore
16 Hook
17 ???
18 Happy Gilmore
19 Jerry Maguire
20 A Time to Kill (Samuel L. Jackson)
21 Might Ducks
22 Night at the Roxbury ???
23 Matrix
24 Pulp Fiction
25 ???
26 Jingle All the Way ??
27 ???
28 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
29 Hook
30 Waterboy
31 Rocky 4
32 Karate Kid
33 Snakes on a Plane
34 TMNT II (Vanila Ice)
35 Judge Dredd
36 Deep Blue Sea
37 Rocky

Awww!!!

Reminds me of in kindergarden.