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odinsblog: Several decades ago, political activists on the religious right began to put together an “ideology machine”. Home schooling was a big part of the plan. The idea was to breed and “train up” an army of culture warriors. We now are faced with the consequences of their actions, some of which are quite disturbing. According to the Department of Education, the home schooling student population doubled in between 1999 and 2007, to 1.5 million students, and there is reason to think the growth has continued. Though families opt to home school for many different reasons, a large part of the growth has come from Christian fundamentalist sects. Children in that first wave are now old enough to talk about their experiences. In many cases, what they have to say is quite alarming. When he was growing up in California, Ryan Lee Stollar was a stellar home schooling student. His oratory skills at got him invited to home schooling conferences around the country, where he debated public policy and spread the word about the “virtues” of an authentically Christian home school education. Now 28, looking back on his childhood, it all seems like a delusion. As Stollar explains: “The Christian home school subculture isn’t a children-first movement. It is, for all intents and purposes, an ideology-first movement. There is a massive, well-oiled machine of ideology that is churning out soldiers for the culture war. Home schooling is both the breeding ground – literally, when you consider the Quiverfull concept – and the training ground for this machinery. I say this as someone who was raised in that world.” Too frequently, Stollar says, the consequences of putting ideology over children include anxiety, depression, distrust of authority, and issues around sexuality. This is evident from the testimonials that appear on Home schoolers Anonymous, the website that Stollar established, along with several partners. Read More

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andrewfishman: Georges Seurat, “Une Baignade, Asnières (Bathers at Asnières)” and “Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte),” 1884  Most often seen separately, these two colossal paintings are meant to be paired together.  They are frequently interpreted as an allegory of the upper and middle classes.  Each set of people is on an island, with the bathers on the left clearly representing a lower class than the people on the right-hand island.  Nearly every person faces the other group, with the exception of the little girl in white.  In “A Sunday Afternoon,” a subtle theme of corruption appears throughout.  the island is cloaked in shadow, and several visual clues allude to prostitution.  It was extremely uncommon for women to go fishing…but prostitutes did, so that they could loiter without arousing suspicion or breaking the law.  The monkey in the painting also seems out of place, unless you know that the word in French for “monkey,” la singesse, also means “prostitute.”  The island itself was even known for being a good place to hire prostitutes.  The paintings, therefore, seem much more moralistic than at first glance.  The island of upper-class people is dark and filled with allusions to prostitution with the striking exception of the girl in white, who stares directly at the viewer.  The middle-class bathers, on the other hand, seem happy, relaxed, and are much larger than their upper-class counterparts. It seems clear whose side Seurat is on. 

Undercaffeinated, constantly.: angryblackman: So the PS4 reveal was better then? Or was the XBOX One...

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angryblackman:

So the PS4 reveal was better then? Or was the XBOX One one better?

Well, the PS4 reveal was a matter of “these are the games that will be on the PS4”

The Xbox One reveal was a matter of “these are the capabilities of the console”

Where Microsoft has done well in my opinion…

Yeah, there was definitely a lack of games that Im actually interested in at the reveal. But finding games for me to like for the xbox has never been a problem, so I guess the emphasis on the capabilities of the xbox as an entertainment system didnt bother me. Microsoft knows that theres always money in videogames, and if the new xbxo can do other things better, well thats great.

A cell phone nowadays has to be able to do more than make a call, it has to play music, video, have access to the internet, record and store pictures and video….The Xbox 1 will be able to do lots of things other than gaming, and I cant wait.

And come on, multitasking? tell me you didn’t get a boner when you saw that.



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