ivan

Are you a tool when you enforce the rules of your school? good question - you've had plenty of teachers in your life - did the good ones enforce every rule the school had, or the ones that are clearly important? did they enforce the rules in a manner that was human and benevolent, or cruel and capricious? i have bad days of course, and no doubt am occasionally malevolent - in retrospect i gotta be able to admit when i'm being a tool too - but when a kid comes into my room wearing a hat or their i-pod falls on the floor, i rarely write them up for it (the ipod case mentioned above was one where, in looking at the contents, i saw evidence of really bad stuff going on which was out of my league to deal with) the penalty exacted seems imho excessive and, in similar situations in my class, i'd have just given 8-ball a warning - we all call things as we see'em, and i'm probably just a soft-on-crime-bleeding-heart-liberal

regardless, the initial ticket-writing tool wins the dick of the day award and i can't see how my mind would ever be changed on that count

that's fucking awesome! the admitting to The Tool of a transgression in the first place was a mistake (obviously) - you shoulda told 'em you were just pushign the meth the whole trip and didn't stop the whole time to do anything more than satisfy your crazed sexual urges on the invasive mtn goats w/o your confession they had no evidence at all, right? christ, i hate authority figures - but what can you do? go climbing in somalia?

that and, having met blake, he's an incredibly down to earth and friendly guy completly unlike the foul-mouthed, close-minded, stuborn jackass that i typify - i can't imagine him being anything other than penitent before a judge out of curiosity, so am i supposed to have a permit for any overnighter anywhere in the park, including the oh-so-popular wa pass area?

i remember the only reason i could finish w&p was my absolute and complete hatred of every single character and my desire to see all of them come to the worst possible end... i did really dig tolstoy's "how much land does a man need?" short-story though

"the american plague" - interesting non-fiction detailing the mephis yellow fever outbreak of 1878 which killed a whole fuck-load of white-folk (interestingly, an evolved resistance to the virus spared most african-americans) and then the story of walter reed's campaign to discover the cause and cure for the disease, which had a fascinating tendency to kill the very scientists studying it

they can clean up the mess, then be the object of round 2

very innovative - at least you didn't have to take your shoes off and try to use the laces!

so it'd be 4:20 or so when you arrived>?

non-smokers will be the first put against the wall when The Revolution comes.

whoa, i was like, almost in on the ground-floor n' everythign...so how come i have so few posts?!?

having some sorta prusik material on both climbers when doing multi-pitch stuff is pretty basic safety advice - the follower needs to be able to prusik is exactly those sort of situations, and the belayer needs to be able to tie off/escape the belay in order to render help/first aid too.

i'm a public school teacher, so of course not...at least not on friday's after 2:10.

looks like it dries out a bit on friday and over the weekend - i'd like to climb friday afternoon and one of the weekend days

that would blow my fucking mind i was disappointed to see that no one ended up the evening w/ massive headwounds

ha! i'm so stupid (and impoverished) i figured that was my only option a long time ago - new pairs of underwear are cheaper than soloists at any rate

dunno, but pretty much anythign a man currently has inside the walls of his anus i'd rather see stay there

"my psychologist says i swallowed a lot of aggresion as a kid...along w/ a lotta pizza!"

that's a pretty big assumption there. an assumption, i'll grant you - but how far fetched is it to assume that someone who could give a shit about whether or not they had a kid would give a shit about that kid when they had it? i hope i'm a decent parent, but my daughter was an "accident," and i'm quite certain that my own selfish, stupid hangups and feelings about having to accept those new crushing responsibilites did effect her over the first year or two of her life - i do think she'll be fine in the end b/c i mostly got over those issues, but then i'm a professional, (mostly) happily married, employed, had a good father/mother role-model, etc. i'd imagine a statistical survey of prisons would show a greater tendency amongst the inmates then the population at large to come from broken, fucked up homes - i know for sure poverty is a major risk factor for anti-social behavior, and clearly poor folks have less control over their reproduction

Hypocrisy at its best I am confused, didn't these things exist when Clinton was president?? (i.e Pakistan, Palestine) WWII one bombing raid into Germany 80K civilians died, In one raid. Was this wrong??? yes. that was my point. hypocrism is nothing new, and no political party or persuasion has a monopoly on it. and yes, killing 80k civilians is wrong. but right and wrong don't really mean a damn thing when you're just a few evolutionary hop'skips'n'jumps from amoebas.

That's a fact of biology but the equation doesn't change just because the terms are inequitable. The other 50% should own up to their responsibilities and pay the suitable consequences...at least 18 years worth in this society. but they don't live up to their consequences and their kids end up suffering the consequences

Regardless....you play the game, you accept the risks and consequences. You have sex, you might conceive. You go climbing, you might get hit with a rock, etc. the difference is - you play the game, an innocent person ends up getting fawked as a result - that is, in having stupid sex, you create a child who then is unloved and unwanted - they pay the price, not you - more like me climbing rocks and sending a resulting boulder down ontop of some poor schmoo's head

this'd be a lot more fun thread, o-fellow-liberal-brethern, if we take equal note of the plentiful hypocrises of the left...

damn. beaten to it. shit.

Hypocrisy at its best which, again, i aint' exactly against - it's classically american - we were the nation that famously founded itself by declaring that all were free and equal when in fact less than a quarter of the population were so. at least we're being consistent?