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I can hardly wait for young Ben's first piece. Let my education begain.
That's actually as close to a fair-minded comment I've seen from the left on this subject.
Anyone else ever notice that the million-monkeys-typing thing is always illustrated with a picture of a chimpanzee at a typewriter! Chimps are apes, not monkeys. Hell, chimps EAT monkeys.
It's not George Bush's fault he's stupid - that's genetics. So what? Home schooling, and very especially home schooling by conservative nutjobs, leads to people like Domenech. He can say Jews ought to be gassed with a straight face because he really and truly believes it - he's never had a teacher tell him differently. Fundamentally, he has been damaged by lack of exposure to civil society. While it isn't his fault, it certainly bears on his competence to be hired by the Washington Post.
Your charity does you credit, as always. It seems to miss the point a little. Did you get a paid gig in your 20s to say stupid things? Most of the commentary is directed at the Post, as I see it. True, to get at the Post you've got to get at Little Benny and in doing that people will say some uncharitable things, things we wouldn't want said about ourselves. I'm human enough to say I derive some enjoyment from it.
In my 20s I was happy to say stupid things w/no compensation at all. Now I demand payment. Would that I had been, I'd be a rich man today. Maybe I coulda bought The New Republic and made myself editor.
Max,
To buy the New Republic, you must marry a woman with a heck of a lot of money.
Max,
It's perfectly resonable to give charity for the foolish things one says and does in one's youth, but bear in mind - Ben is still _in_ his 20s. He's still got 6 more years to say and do foolish things, only now he's doing them in public, for pay, under the aegis of the Washington Post.
Has Ben become the Johnny Knoxville of politics, with this blog his "Jackass"?
Regardless of home schooling and any past history, his first post puts him squarely into the dumbass column. I am willing to rush to judgement on that first attempt. Some things you just know are bad...
What's up with Tacitus chasing 'round the blogs defending little Benny?
Weird and a bit disgusting.
"Homeschooling" as a pejoritive adjective attached to Ben's other crimes is narrow minded. There are lots of people home-schooling that are not doing it from a religio-facsist perspective. The religious nuts infiltrated home-schooling as they have the media, government, schoolboards, etc. Just because you have these idiots involved does not mean the fault lies with home-schooling. Anyone who is going to school their child on bigotry and hatred will find a Christian school to do their bidding if home-schooling isn't an option.
Here is another "homeschooler"
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* Video: Homeschooler Wins Science Prize
Teen Who Tackled 19th Century Math Returns Home
16-Year-Old Faces 1,600 Competitors For $100,000 Scholarship
POSTED: 10:18 pm PST December 7, 2005
UPDATED: 6:23 am PST December 8, 2005
CARMEL VALLEY, Calif. -- A Carmel Valley teenager returned home Wednesday from New York, where he won a national science competition.
Michael Viscardi
Michael Viscardi, 16, won the top prize and a $100,000 scholarship Monday in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science and Technology.
"He tackled a 19th-century math problem," one of the competition's judges was quoted as saying. "He dazzled us with his creative use of the mathematical language."
Viscardi said he was amazed he won. He said there were 1,600 people in the competition.
"Unbelievable. All the other presentations were really incredible," Viscardi said.
"We were nervous. Michael was nervous. When he got it, he was too overwhelmed," said Eunjee Viscardi, Michael's mom.
When asked what he sees himself doing in 30 years, Michael, who also plays piano and violin and is the concert master of the San Diego Youth Symphony, said he would like to be a mathematician and continue to play music.
In the meantime, Viscardi could be headed to Harvard, where he has applied for early admission.
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peon- "religious nuts infiltrated home-schooling"...??Wow! I knew Lincoln was a nutjob but I had no idea he was a religious nut!
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luxury watch That's actually as close to a fair-minded comment I've seen from the left on this
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