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Plan9 · 03-15-2010, 09:04 AM

But we've always been at war with [Iraq/Afghanistan], Winston...

Other than being thoroughly disgusted by this and ashamed that Texas is a part of the US right now... I'm really hoping they at least did a chapter on Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe. Ya know, just to confirm our suspicions. War of Northern Aggression'd! MSD had it right with the 1984 comment.

I guess the thing that gets me is that people are fighting over percentages. Assuming that all the things mentioned in these history books are legit facts (ha! of course not), these guys are saying that their political leanings are underrepresented because the other guy's politically leanings are overrepresented. But nobody wants the more neutral balance that a third party just-the-facts historian might provide; it's a silly tug 'o war with what-happened-here and the people that lose the most are the kids that have to read it, graduate, and go to college. It becomes their symbolic reality.

I'm mostly just talking to myself. This is all very disturbing. Even more so than the delicious egg debate above.

03-15-2010, 09:04 AM	#23 (permalink)
Plan9 I Confess a Shiver	But we've always been at war with [Iraq/Afghanistan], Winston... Other than being thoroughly disgusted by this and ashamed that Texas is a part of the US right now... I'm really hoping they at least did a chapter on Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe. Ya know, just to confirm our suspicions. War of Northern Aggression'd! MSD had it right with the 1984 comment. I guess the thing that gets me is that people are fighting over percentages. Assuming that all the things mentioned in these history books are legit facts (ha! of course not), these guys are saying that their political leanings are underrepresented because the other guy's politically leanings are overrepresented. But nobody wants the more neutral balance that a third party just-the-facts historian might provide; it's a silly tug 'o war with what-happened-here and the people that lose the most are the kids that have to read it, graduate, and go to college. It becomes their symbolic reality. I'm mostly just talking to myself. This is all very disturbing. Even more so than the delicious egg debate above. __________________ *Whatever you can carry.* "You should not drink... and bake." Last edited by Plan9; 03-15-2010 at 09:14 AM..