Parent alert: the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those “Baby Einstein” videos that did not make children into geniuses.They may have been a great electronic baby sitter, but the unusual refunds appear to be a tacit admission that they did not increase infant intellect.
There never was a generation so dedicated to tossing out the wisdom of every generation that preceded them; then turning over their own brains and common sense to any fad, geegaw, “consensus” or “accepted wisdom” that was preceded by the talismanic phrase Some experts say … .
Babies are fascinated by human faces and their own fingers and toes. Toddlers would rather play with the pots, pans and Tupperware in your own kitchen then being strapped into a bouncer in front of the t.v. Toss kids into the backyard with some old pans, spoons and some cardboard boxes and they’ll entertain themselves for hours.
People! Start questioning “some experts say…” and start exercising your own common sense. Heaven knows that grey-matter attribute has practically disappeared from our culture.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/26 @ 12:11 pm #
snowcone believes what some experts say.
Comment by JD on 10/26 @ 12:16 pm #
Snotnose is still fascinated by its wee-wee.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/26 @ 12:26 pm #
That’s stupid that Disney has to refund anything. Their little videos are trippy and they don’t hurt kids nearly as bad as public schools what brainwash kids into the global warming scam.
Comment by dicentra on 10/26 @ 12:31 pm #
Yeah. Why does no one QUESTION AUTHORITY on AGW?
Huh?
Huh?
What’s with calling an old stiff “the Goracle” when they rejected your average priest or pastor?
Yeah, I know. These are the same freaks that went to Guyana and literally “drank the Kool-Aid.”
Comment by Chris S. on 10/26 @ 12:36 pm #
It’s interesting that the “experts” weren’t actual developmental pediatricians. The real Docs have been saying NO TV until 2 years at the least. Other studies showed that the einstein videos aren’t mearly harmless, but in fact detrimental to language development, the exact opposite of what is claimed on the box.
Comment by Bob Reed on 10/26 @ 12:40 pm #
Questioning authority and Dissent! are no longer the highest form of patriotism…
Comment by guinsPen on 10/26 @ 12:44 pm #
I remember Mr. Moto.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/26 @ 12:45 pm #
If you were developmentally harmed by a baby Einstein video you were not of hardy stock and probably should have been culled from the herd.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/26 @ 12:59 pm #
Goodbye Baby Einstein! Hello, Lassie!
Comment by B Moe on 10/26 @ 1:06 pm #
Yippie Ki Yi Yay, get along little dogies.
Comment by JD on 10/26 @ 1:09 pm #
Both of my little angels loved Baby Einstein/Mozart/Picasso/etc… They are doing quite fine developmentally. This is abject silliness.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/26 @ 1:12 pm #
So, JD, have any of your babies solved a quadratic equation yet? Huh? HUH?
You can’t be trusted to to see and understand your own victim hood. Obviosly!
Comment by BJTexs on 10/26 @ 1:13 pm #
“… if I only had a U!”
Obviously!
Comment by DarthRove on 10/26 @ 1:14 pm #
Mine liked Baby Einstein et al as well.
Then again, my older one thinks Darth Vader’s name is really “Superbunny”, but I don’t think the two are related.
Comment by lee on 10/26 @ 1:22 pm #
Play in the yard with a cardboard box?
Are you insane?
These days a kid can’t put on shoes what he has to vigorously rub antibacterial soap up to the elbows. I don’t know how the human race survived before this century…
Comment by McGehee on 10/26 @ 1:25 pm #
I don’t know how it’s going to survive to the end of it.
Stupidity strikes me as kind of extinction-inducing.
Comment by dicentra on 10/26 @ 1:35 pm #
So, JD, have any of your babies solved a quadratic equation yet?
Dude. I’m hard-pressed to do that and I went to frakkin’ college.
I want to know if they can properly use the subjunctive. Now THAT is a special skill.
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 10/26 @ 1:40 pm #
Speaking of questions and education, I’ve started a hobby website that I hope can eventually become a useful resource for students. In light of the obvious erudition of PW readers, I sincerely encourage any submissions, corrections, or other ideas from you. An email address is on the homepage.
Infinitests.com
Is this thread hijacking or link whoring? In any case, I apologize and will now retire to the shadows once more.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/26 @ 1:50 pm #
I clicked over briefly, TaiChi. I R too dum for that stuff, apparently.
Now, if you had a quiz on math, engineering (which is really math again for a lot of it), or computer-sciency stuff, I might have a prayer. Otherwise, I’m ignorant.
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 1:51 pm #
Comment by lee on 10/26 @ 1:22 pm #
My daughters laugh and trade stories on how calm I approached all their bumps, bruises, colds and sore throats — Clean out wounds, slap a bandaid on it, hugs, kisses and push right out the door. My girls were very very active, yet there were only a handful of times that meant a trip to urgent care or ER – broken bones or stitches.
Eldest daughter, RN, tried her hand at ER for 3 months then went back to ICU. She felt her skills were atrophying in ER because there are so many non-emergencies.
#2 daughter, mom of 7 y/o twins, shoves them out in the backyard all the time — they have an area all to themselves to dig, build forts, get as dirty as they want. She just hoses ‘em off once in a while
;-)
Comment by B Moe on 10/26 @ 1:52 pm #
I think we should build housing projects in Alaska. There seems to be a steeper learning curve there, and a premium on problem solving.
Comment by Old Texas Turkey on 10/26 @ 2:05 pm #
if the accusation is that the kids that watched it are developmentally disadvantaged, then what was the nature and make up of the control group used to determine this genius deficiency? Because I have an idea, go ask those parents of those kids what made their kids the norm or superior. How about that?
Any f* who would think that plopping an infant in front of a TV would lead to superlative IQs, themselves, deserves to be strapped to a chair and forced to watch baby einstein.
BTW, do most of these retartded parents know that when Einstein, hisself, was at a tender age, he was considered low functioning and a poor student?
Final point. We let our girls watch Baby Einstein when they were toddlers. They would usually fall asleep, as would I. Struck me at the time, as a design feature of the programming.
Comment by Salt Lick on 10/26 @ 2:06 pm #
When I was a kid, my parents said I could become anything I wanted. So I became an asshole.
Comment by Bilwick1 on 10/26 @ 2:13 pm #
Actually, under Obama, the motto “Question Authority” has been re-tooled. The word “question” has been replaced with “submit to.”
Comment by McGehee on 10/26 @ 2:21 pm #
Also, the death-penalty appeals process for the crime of extreme stupidity, is kind of truncated.
Comment by guinsPen on 10/26 @ 2:26 pm #
Motto.
There, I said it
Comment by TheGeezer on 10/26 @ 2:30 pm #
Mine is the bolus of generations moving through the alimentary canal of the nation’s history, soon to be propelled from the sphincter of existence into the bedpan of destiny.
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 2:35 pm #
oh, crap, guinsPen, I did it again, didn’t I?
I have no idea why I keep misspelling that particular word…..
—->wanders off grumbling to edit title and put a large sticky note on monitor of self-admonishment
Comment by Richard Aubrey on 10/26 @ 2:41 pm #
One of these days, I’m going to find out who “they” is and ask them how come they know all this stuff.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/26 @ 2:57 pm #
#27
That cracked me up. I laughed, I really did.
Comment by dicentra on 10/26 @ 3:03 pm #
TaiChiWawa
Dude, I failed that test (70%) even though I cheated and used the Bill Buckley Lexicon.
Them’s some 50-dollar words there, fur shur.
Comment by OCBill on 10/26 @ 3:09 pm #
The construct is incomplete. It should go “Some experts say [fill in blank] MAY…”
They don’t even have to be “experts.” They can be researchers, doctors, dentists, parents, etc. The point is the scare headline, not the validity of the source.
And don’t get me started on “experts”.
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 10/26 @ 3:24 pm #
Them’s some 50-dollar words there, fur shur.
And they’re yours for free.
Comment by Squid on 10/26 @ 3:38 pm #
This is one of those stories where I struggle to find a protagonist. The vendor is pretty shady regarding their claims, the parents delusional enough to believe the hype (no offense meant to present company, of course), the crusading advocates are noisy and annoying buttinskies who should mind their own damn business, and of course the lawyers are all a bunch of lawyers. Throw in a few references to “experts” (and worse yet, “experts” pontificating about “experts”), and you’ve got yourself the cast for a season of Survivor where everyone roots for Ma Nature to take care of ‘em all.
Would it have killed the writer to profile a couple of the children, just so that I’d have a shot at finding one sympathetic character in all this?
Comment by SDN on 10/26 @ 3:47 pm #
#3: one step was left out of Darleen’s formulation: never was there a generation so ready to blame their stupid decisions on someone else, and holler for a lawyer.
Comment by SDN on 10/26 @ 3:48 pm #
An “ex” is a has-been, and a “spurt” is a drip under pressure…..
Comment by cranky-d on 10/26 @ 3:58 pm #
I was a T.A. not all that long ago, and I can tell you, every one of those little bastards was a frelling lawyer. We got one for cheating once, which should’ve been an “F” but because the syllabus didn’t say that an F on the final would mean an F in the class, they guy got a D. The syllabus isn’t just something that describes the class, it’s a legal document. Insane.
Sometimes teaching was rewarding, but the negatives can quickly turn you into a major curmudgeon.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/26 @ 4:00 pm #
Yeah, I guess we could’ve tried to have the guy kicked out, but in reality no one does that. Though I guess you can get booted for admitting you’re a conservative.
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 5:05 pm #
I was a T.A. not all that long ago, and I can tell you, every one of those little bastards was a frelling lawyer
cranky-d, that describes 5 year olds. A competent parent nips that in the bud before they turn double-digits.
It may have said “university” on the outside of the building, but you were a kindergarten minder.
Comment by newrouter on 10/26 @ 5:08 pm #
does anyone remember when veal was verbotten:
“It also looks like Bo — the Obamas’ dog — is living like a king. The first lady said the presidential pooch celebrated his first birthday earlier this month with a Rose Garden party.
Bo, a Portuguese water dog, feasted on a cake shaped like a dog house that was made out of veal.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091024/ap_on_en_tv/us_michelle_obama_leno
Comment by Kresh on 10/26 @ 5:17 pm #
Er, how many people could have had health insurance for what that veal cost? /sarc
This is news how? Geez media people, get off their cocks already. *facepalm*
Comment by Swen Swenson on 10/26 @ 5:21 pm #
Ah, well there’s the problem. You see, common sense has always been an uncommon commodity and is becoming more so every day.
Comment by B Moe on 10/26 @ 5:23 pm #
Usually?
Comment by sdferr on 10/26 @ 5:28 pm #
Marie Antoine Carême exclaims from the grave, “Mon Dieu. M. Tallyrand asked only that I feed Portuguese noblemen. How not their dogs?”
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 5:38 pm #
ot: WOW…. Hewitt is ginsuing David Frum!!! Blood is flying!
Comment by newrouter on 10/26 @ 5:39 pm #
frum = snake
Comment by newrouter on 10/26 @ 5:40 pm #
oh good more frummery at the top of the hour
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 5:42 pm #
good lord, newrouter, I don’t think I’ve ever heard Hewitt get so outright angry. (and few deserve it more than David Frum)
Comment by newrouter on 10/26 @ 5:50 pm #
frummy is more of a weasel than a snake. i liked how he threw in a slander of levin into the mix. speaking of which on to wabc
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 5:53 pm #
and Frum is refusing to come back at the top of the hour. I think he just wee-wee’d all over himself
Comment by happyfeet on 10/26 @ 5:56 pm #
I need to reread the metamorphosis.
Comment by SBP on 10/26 @ 5:57 pm #
Veal? The DOG is eating veal?
A true hero of the proletariat, that Barry O is.
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 6:01 pm #
SBP
I’m sure it was a free-range baby cow that died of natural causes.
Comment by Barrack Milhouse Obama on 10/26 @ 6:02 pm #
We couldn’t get kobe in time, all right?
Comment by newrouter on 10/26 @ 6:04 pm #
david f as a bug works too
Comment by newrouter on 10/26 @ 6:05 pm #
they’re eating kobe bryant in the wh?
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 6:07 pm #
AH! Hugh is going to rerun the Frum bit!
Comment by Blitz on 10/26 @ 6:12 pm #
Some experts say that the worl id flat, the haiku is 6 stanzas and PD is an idiot. WHO listens?
Comment by Blitz on 10/26 @ 6:13 pm #
Wait wait wait…beyond the typos? Only hotel maids eat Kobe in the WH…or something like that.
Comment by The weasel continuum on 10/26 @ 6:15 pm #
New? You bastard. How DARE you compare us to a bvlind shrew. You shall be hearing from our lawyers SIR
Comment by B Moe on 10/26 @ 6:22 pm #
Breaking news: Newest face of the Republican Party gives Republican party the bird.
Comment by Blitz on 10/26 @ 6:29 pm #
Beck has never been about a political party. You should know that Bmoe
Comment by newrouter on 10/26 @ 6:37 pm #
look the donut eater supports folks who want limited government and a strong defense
Comment by happyfeet on 10/26 @ 6:38 pm #
Meghans’ cowardly cocksucking daddy is never going to be president not ever ever ever. That is a wonderful and glorious thing I think B Moe. He’ll just be useless Meghan’s useless daddy til the end of his days.
That’s a win.
Comment by Pablo on 10/26 @ 6:38 pm #
Wait, isn’t Fox News the research arm of the Republican party?
That’s a nice takedown Hewitt is doing there.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/26 @ 6:39 pm #
oh. It’s storytime with Fascist Cunt.
Comment by Pablo on 10/26 @ 6:40 pm #
That bitch.
Comment by B Moe on 10/26 @ 6:44 pm #
I do know that, I am making fun of all the idiots on the left that don’t know that.
Comment by B Moe on 10/26 @ 6:45 pm #
Thanks meya for the timely assist.
Comment by Joe on 10/26 @ 6:45 pm #
Baby Einstein was child abuse. One of the biggest scams going. That Walt Disney bought into it…well shame on them too.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/26 @ 6:49 pm #
Also that analysis what you linked was just stupid I thought. If the gay-assed Republicans can’t see a not-dirty socialist freight train coming and get their pansy RINO asses out of the way then they have no business with a majority anyway and no matter how pretty Lindsey looks and feels in his new dress nothing’s gonna change that.
Comment by JD on 10/26 @ 7:01 pm #
Meya’s mendacity continues apace. Lying little anti-semitic fascist.
Comment by newrouter on 10/26 @ 7:06 pm #
grahamnesty could be a bug too
Comment by sdferr on 10/26 @ 7:06 pm #
G W Bush too accidentally fell into a sort of child abuse too, though not a scam. Letting him take the highest executive office in the land and drive all those BDS sufferers off the deep end was one of the clearest cases of child abuse we’ve seen in national politics. So much so, that those sufferers cannot help themselves but reach back to drag him into nearly every conversation they enter.
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 10/26 @ 7:25 pm #
meya: It’s all for the children.
meya’s right, the Ruinator Proggs have ruinated that one too, though not on a scale of, say, their ruination of “environmentalism”.
Comment by Snowcone's Battery Operated Vibrator on 10/26 @ 7:25 pm #
77. Very well put. One wonders when you talk to some people how much twisting they are capable of performing to keep pushing back the expiration date on “Blame Bush Inc.” It’s almost as if every malady that befalls anyone anywhere can be traced back to the perfidy of George W. Bush. And he is simultaneously somehow in their minds the stupidest human being ever to walk upright.
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 10/26 @ 7:37 pm #
It’s almost as if every malady that befalls anyone anywhere can be traced back to the perfidy of George W. Bush.
How do they know it’s not Global Warming?
Comment by Snowcone on 10/26 @ 7:47 pm #
Sounds like someone has a problem with Capitalism.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/26 @ 8:27 pm #
So, JD, have any of your babies solved a quadratic equation yet?
I’ve done that maybe five times in my life: three times in high school, once on the SAT, and once on the GRE. Talk about a road not taken…
Comment by B Moe on 10/26 @ 8:29 pm #
Those voices in your head aren’t real, Snowcone, no matter what they sound like.
Comment by dicentra on 10/26 @ 8:53 pm #
Can we get a screenshot of the blackboard showing all the paranoid connections to the GOP?
(A) The GOP are not in power, nor do they have the votes to do either jack or squat. What would be the point?
(B) Glenn didn’t have a blackboard until a few months ago. He comes up with ideas on the fly, uses them furiously, then forgets all about them later. ADHD, see.
(C) A few years back, Glenn insinuated that the dithering on the border with Mexico (not even sending troops to help with the criminals) was the result of some deep cahootinizing between Bush and Mexico. If he had the proof, he’d have exposed Bush right then and there. Even now he occasionally insinuates that he has a lot of unconfirmed dirt on Bush but he won’t say what it is until he knows it’s true. (Strange concept, that.)
(D) Glenn’s “Refounders” project calls on members of congress to rat out their own party on issues of corruption. He’s just as happy to expose a corrupt R as a D.
This information is know to those who actually watch Glenn. Those whose exposure to Glenn is warped by Media Matters are unable to grasp the nuance.
Comment by dicentra on 10/26 @ 8:54 pm #
Sounds like someone has a problem with Capitalism.
Sounds like someone needs to learn the difference between a monitor and a mirror.
Comment by McGehee on 10/26 @ 9:05 pm #
You know what would happen if Laura Bush had ever said that, regardless of the subject.
Comment by RTO Trainer on 10/26 @ 9:24 pm #
I’m not a fan of Beck. That said, I applaud his impulse to call a corrupt pig a corrupt pig, be it a Republican or a Democrat.
Comment by Snowcone on 10/26 @ 9:29 pm #
Those voices in your head aren’t real
Speaking of which…
I don’t see any difference between “Some experts say…” and “The Bible says…”.
Darleen doesn’t grasp some people just want to be lied to…is it wrong to take advantage that impulse?
Comment by sdferr on 10/26 @ 9:32 pm #
This was certainly a depressing thing to read. The clowns at the controls have yet to figure it out and we have to wonder, what’s it going to take? In this case, nothing that would even rise to half the level of about face we saw with the Torricelli/Lautenberg switch up.
Comment by Pablo on 10/26 @ 9:44 pm #
A Hoffman win would be a nice wake up call.
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 9:50 pm #
I don’t see any difference between “Some experts say…” and “The Bible says…”.
there is a lot you don’t see, snotty. But hey, bigotry is isn’t the worst of your traits.
Comment by JD on 10/26 @ 9:51 pm #
How pathetic does alphie/snotnose/Neville/parsnip/sniffles’ life have to be?
Trackback by DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts - DBKP on 10/26 @ 10:28 pm #
Hoffman Surges, Obama War on Coal: Morning Intell…
Obama’s EPA declares on war and WV pushes back; Doug Hoffman surges and RINO pundits fail to feel a thrill up their legs–and more: Morning Intell Tuesday October 27 2009.
……
Comment by Snowcone on 10/26 @ 10:37 pm #
, bigotry is isn’t the worst of your traits.
Huh?
Anyone who thinks the Bible is just a confused fairy tale is a bigot?
How ironic.
Comment by SBP on 10/26 @ 10:57 pm #
How pathetic does alphie/snotnose/Neville/parsnip/sniffles’ life have to be?
Not as pathetic as SFAG’s, I’ll bet.
At least NippleNut doesn’t still think that Obama is going to pay his student loans, and (unlike SFAG’s alter/butt-buddy/whatever Rilly Dumb), NippleNut is probably capable of reading a calendar and comprehending time zones.
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 11:39 pm #
yessirree, those godbotherers aren’t good fer nothing at all.
Comment by Snowcone on 10/26 @ 11:48 pm #
Darleen,
Bernie Madoff gave a lot of money to charity, too.
Other people’s money…but still.
Comment by Darleen on 10/26 @ 11:54 pm #
snotty doesn’t read either
Comment by Snowcone on 10/27 @ 12:04 am #
Darleen must think that hospital has Jesus in the back supplying everything it needs?
Or maybe it runs on charitable donations.
Bernie Madoff’s pal who died in his own swimming pool today gave over $1 billion to charity.
Does that make him a good man to the pious prigs?
Comment by Darleen on 10/27 @ 12:10 am #
snotty = Reading comprehension FAIL
Comment by Darleen on 10/27 @ 12:14 am #
The medical school and the adult and children’s hospitals on the university campus, are the largest operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, according to Loma Linda University spokesman Richard Weismeyer.
Its faith-based approach to treating the mind and body, he said, has made the medical school popular not only with Adventist students but with Christians in general.
Within the next five years, a medical school that began with 10 students and five faculty members will graduate its 10,000th student. [...]
Loma Linda graduates have also made their mark:
Dr. Edward H. Hon, class of 1950, developed the world’s first fetal monitoring system;
Dr. Melvin P. Judkins, class of 1947, developed a pioneering technique for taking X-rays of heart blood vessels, and;
Dr. Sean Bush, an emergency-room doctor who served his residency at Loma Linda and still works there, has become one of the world’s foremost experts on snake venom. A television show filmed at the hospital, “Venom ER,” was recently a staple on the “Animal Planet” cable TV channel.
Comment by geoffb on 10/27 @ 12:20 am #
You know that that can’t be true as all those Xtianist people do not do real science. You know the kind the AGW crowd drools over in their own
ivory towerspeoples temples.Comment by Snowcone on 10/27 @ 12:24 am #
That’s very nice, Darleen.
Do you know how much the U.S. government pays of every medical student’s tuition, btw?
I’m having trouble seeing your point.
Are you one of those people who thinks you can buy your way into heaven?
Comment by hot fudge sundae on 10/27 @ 12:55 am #
“I’m having trouble seeing your point.”
That’s a given. Yer kinda stupid. Has anyone told you that?
Wait, everyone has. Repeatedly. You must rather like the attention that comes with being the village idiot.
Comment by wheels on 10/27 @ 12:55 am #
I had a friend a couple decades ago who owned a button that said, “QUESTION AUTHORITY” on the first line. The second line read, “ASK ME ANYTHING.”
Comment by SBP on 10/27 @ 1:18 am #
NippleNut has never done anything of value, nor will he ever.
He compensates by denigrating those who have.
Sad, sad little failure.
Comment by Patrick Chester on 10/27 @ 4:24 am #
Well, Snowy, someone who simply doesn’t believe in Christianity would simply… not believe and go on with his or her life. Someone with an, oh, intolerant view of people who had beliefs like Christianity might be inspired to sneer and say things like “the Bible is just a confused fairy tale” to denigrate those who see things differently.
Sounds rather bigoted to me. Though I’m not sure it’s just anyone, just really special folks like you. A sad and ronery one desperate for attention, who whines and tries to claim your critics are attacking some vague “anyone” when called on your antics.
Comment by Barrack Milhouse Obama on 10/27 @ 4:40 am #
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Comment by Rusty on 10/27 @ 5:43 am #
#107
No.No.no. He thinks he’s scoring points which is funny as hell. The other truly funny part is he actually believes.liberalism is going to save the world! As soon as they have everybodies money.
Comment by Pablo on 10/27 @ 6:16 am #
Does it make him a good man to you pious proggs?
Comment by Pablo on 10/27 @ 6:32 am #
So, you don’t have any specific quarrel, just the general ad hominem?
Comment by JD on 10/27 @ 6:33 am #
What is this “our” that you speak of, lying anti-semitic fascist?
Comment by meya on 10/27 @ 6:43 am #
“So, you don’t have any specific quarrel, just the general ad hominem?”
Quarrel? These blackboards are like the best thing to have happened to 24 hour news since the invention of the chyron. Wait for some lame imitations.
Comment by hot fudge sundae on 10/27 @ 6:48 am #
“You mean besides the scientific method?”
“Some experts say” meya displays the classic signs of AIDS Dementia. Scientific method!
Comment by SBP on 10/27 @ 7:05 am #
You mean besides the scientific method?
Yes, SFAG. Marxism is very “scientific”.
That’s why it’s produced universal happiness every time it’s been tried.
Oh, wait: it’s never produced anything besides slavery, starvation, and mass murder.
Keep the faith, O True Believer.
Comment by SBP on 10/27 @ 7:08 am #
Seriously, SFAG:
If Marxism has been in n countries (where n is probably > 50) and has turned to horrorshow all n times, what does the scientific method say about the probablility of instituting Marxism in another country?
The scientific method doesn’t work if you lie about the data. Really.
Comment by SBP on 10/27 @ 7:12 am #
“Experts say” is right up there with “studies show” as a mark of pseudo-scientific spin.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/27 @ 7:27 am #
“The scientific method doesn’t work if you lie about the data. Really.”
Just ask any AGW believer.
Oh.
Wait.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/27 @ 5:43 pm #
My little brother and his wife use that stuff. *sigh* It is part of their bedtime rituals with the girls – bath, quiet time, the music, sleep.
I think the regimen is more important than the brand name of the products.
BTW – Uncle Mike is an evil uncle because last Christmas, when the eldest girl was still into Elmo (now Max and Ruby) during the ‘Elmo’s Christmas’ video, when Elmo was doing the African dance, I started singing ‘Men of Harlech’.
I am a very bad uncle. Heh, heh.