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I wonder why we picked turkey instead of turdukken. If all of us used turdukken, we could kill three species of bird of\ver the simple one, that must be the difinitive difference. On an unrelated matter, I would like to discuss how things like John Madden's deep fried monstrosity is the cause of thousands of injuries across the United States. To many fried food is the best food, its fast its easy, hard to screw up, high in calories, and most of all, requires little to no skill whatsoever. This is marred by the fact that deep fried related injuries plague americans with grease burns. Why deep frying your turkey has become the house hold tradition over the time consuming skill-requiring basting process is the same lowest denominator thinking that allows crap shows like heroes to remain on air. However Delicious albeit risky it is. As those young one's run around they just might bump that turkey and cause a pot of boiling, or near boiling oil to fall on them and make a mess on the...

Writing is one of the most complex processes that the human mind can do. Some attribute the data processing of reading to be the epitome of analytical thinking and understanding. This claim is obviously false, as reading is inherent to writing, as well as the additional needs to process the words being written in a three dimensional fashion. One being able to see the words as they are going to be read by the reader. The second is a live editing process that must be present in order to correctly apply grammatical principles to what is being put on the page. Lastly the writer needs to keep in mind the outline and organization of thoughts that are being put on in the page, this is often considered the "flow" of the paper and the most important aspect in the difference between crap writing professional quality. the elements of writing sound simple, but the process also requires some of the most precise muscle movement the fine muscles of the human body can muster. not only does i...

Now that I'm an adult, the appearance of the things that I loved as a kid has really took a turn for the worse. I recently watched G.I Joe, and it brought to mind the things that I used to watch when growing up, this in turn inspired a quick backtrack to look at many of the shows I watched when I was little. Loony Toons obviously wasn't held to the same moral standards of today's TV programming, but how far the content goes into the depths of violence and racism is amazing. Everybody knows the routine of Looney Toons being hammers, guns, knives, and generally one character trying to kill the other character in any imaginable way. On top of that the characters in the cartoon are sometimes horrendously racist. I remember specifically a cartoon of Daffy Duck vs. a Nazi Commander, who was characterized by a crow, wore a monocle, and ziet hieled every minute or so in the half hour special. Other racist characters are to numerous to quantify, though almost all of them are o...

In this entry I'm going to cover a few opinionated things that have been bugging me in the past. One is the inability for people to enunciate problems that they have. The second is that people have an attraction towards things that are terrible to them or for them, yet, no matter how conscious of their own self destructive tendency they are, they can not change thier habits. Through these two means, it boils down to what really bothers me: the same logical fallacies and assumptions leading to the same results, and their infinite repetition. Examples of the first issue can be seen in almost any statement, conversation, or opinion belonging to any given individual. I guess this is the same means that Socrates stomped ass on his fellow Greeks in debate. nearly one hundred percent of the time, important details of an issue are left out or simply presented in a fashoin that renders a different meaning than what the one speaking wants others to actually know. These statements are...

I've often wanted to know how much more educated I am in a particular subject after I have taken a course. Its very hard to measure, I believe that typical tests don't do so properly. My most prevalent reason why I think that standard tests or the grading system are improper measurements is due to the inaccuracies of the standard grading system, and its bluntness in lumping students into the well known A B C D or F ratings. Especially because a C grade in some courses is more difficult to achieve than an A in others. Mostly though, I believe its hard to actually test the knowledge of students beyond rote education. Even in the free flowing essay questions, or applying complex subjects, its still mostly repetition and regurgitation of knowledge. Its rather sad in a way, as rote education is the bottom line of most courses and subjects. I can't think of a way to discern those that have learned through rote education from those who learned through application of ideas other th...