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Attention DC Tom: any complaints you may have about this thread becoming a shitfest at any point may now be directed to Jauronimo.

The high school I attended (public) was about 70% white, 25% black, and 5% other. There were a lot more crime and behavior issues in my school than in my neighborhood, mostly with the black kids. But, with few exceptions, the black kids all came from poor families and a very poor section of my fairly large hometown. We had our share of racists in the school, who doesn't? But, mostly, the behavior issues at my school were summed up like this: "!@#$ing poor people." It all comes down to what you see as the impetus behind crime when crime and race and crime and socioeconomic situation are both relationships that are highly correlated. It could be that neither of them are causal, but if you had to pick one that was far less retarded, it would be crime and socioeconomic situation.

I don't know, the middle class neighborhood I grew up in was all white. The closest we got to "colored" were the Catholics down the street.

I wouldn't call it a response to him so much as a small response to Sam Harris, who is a guy I've come to respect a bit (although he can be a prick). And once this turns into a 20+ page debacle, you can come around and berate me about this. Until then, you have some penance to undergo

One thing I really like - about both Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens - is that they consistently denied moral relativism in their "new atheist" rants. Harris' recent attempts to popularize the idea that science can determine the most objective human morality possible is simply an outgrowth of that. Though I think his health analogy is a stretch, I've grown to like the use of "well-being" as a place to strive toward (it helps that I'm pretty much a utilitarian anyway). Defining "well-being" is another thing entirely; you can't just say it's the opposite of "suffering." Ultimately, I think that science will be able to tell us how to maximize "our neighbor's" well-being in relation to our own actions. On a larger scale, however, I'm not sure that the field of neuroscience would be able to help us. And yet Richard Swinburne asks normative questions about the Holocaust

Colin Kaepernick only throws one INT? I call shenanigans.

I blame those horny teachers.

Pro-tip for bachelors with means: maintain a second apartment just for the crazies, so you don't have to bring them back to your real one

My university has a central mail center, where every student has a private mailbox. Works for us. If we are expecting mail, we just go there. It's great, especially when you're not sure where you'll be living the next year and don't want to worry about changing your address on your subscriptions, applications, etc.

It's been decreasing pretty steadily since the early 90's.

In other words: you don't need a doctor until something's actually wrong with you. Thanks for the revelation, Saint John.

Is it hosted by Soledad O'Brien?

My uncle and I talked about this once. He's 61, and there were some mornings in his late teens/early 20's where he'd wake up and couldn't remember driving home the night before. He lived in suburbia, so if he wanted to drink with people he'd have to drive to the bar/party/whatever and drive back home if there was no place to crash for the night. It's pretty amazing, how much the attitudes towards something can change in 30-40 years.

Just adds to my hypothesis that feminists hate women and femininity. But that discussion is for another thread/another day. This. Look at high school today. Is it really that big of a hurdle to graduate? I know some kids who graduated high school with me who couldn't pass the GED exam when they walked across the stage.

Where will flight land the whites this time?

Have you seen Womyn's Studies majors?

At the same time, though, a lot of them are going to fancy-shmancy liberal arts colleges to be coddled some more. Many of them will end up with useless degrees and won't be able to find a job. Then, they'll whine about how they wasted their precious time and money when all that needed to happen was for them to wake up and realize that a BA in Womyn's Studies that they did an hour of work on every week doesn't qualify them for ****. Not that this guy's speech probably made any difference, but hey, he tried.

Figure out how to delete your topic yet?

I was thinking more that he told them he was practicing singing, but they thought he was into freaky masturbation stuff and didn't want to go near his room. I mean, really, imagine walking past your kid's room and hearing them try to choke-n-stroke.

Orange! Been an England fan my whole life, so I'll be donning my new Rooney shirt come Monday Unfortunately, I have a solid 5-hour commitment starting at 11:30, so I won't be able to watch.

Why are there still Europeans? After all, many Americans and Australians are descended from Europeans.

You can pose this question to all sorts of !@#$s. Christian !@#$s will respond with, "because evolution is an atheistic worldview that true Christians do not hold." Atheist !@#$s will respond with, "because creationism is stupid/illogical/irrational/whathaveyou, thus religion is stupid, and the theory of evolution proves it." Muslim !@#$s will respond with, "derka derka mohammed jihad!" Jewish !@#$s will respond with, "oy vey! Saying the Tanakh is fallible? It's shoah all over again!" Scientologist !@#$s will...well you get the point.

I just want to know how he figured out that I smoke a pipe

Wasn't me. It's back up now, though. Not sure what that was all about.