I ran into Frakes at an event right before the season started where he was sporting the beard. I asked him about Roddenbery's opinion. He said he grew it over the show hiatus, and when he came back to the studio, he had every intention of shaving it. Roddenberry asked him to keep it because he felt it had a very…
You've glossed over some very valuable Phil Collins' information: Phil believes that he fought at the Alamo in a previous life. http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/come-and…
Next question, please.
My boyfriend says this and I reply: "You turned out great in spite of your parents beating you."
I always want to respond, "Really? You did? Because you turned out to be the kind of person who thinks it's okay to beat defenseless children, and that's not great at all."
And more than half of America use to think that interracial marriage was wrong. And that it was fine to own slaves. At one time we thought child labor was just fine.
Keep popsicles in the freezer. If the kid bites a taco and cuts the roof of her mouth you now have a device to soothe the cut and make the wounded child happy. I learned this yesterday.
Did you read the article? Where he talks about why this logical fallacy ("I'm proof that it works") is so prevalent with children who were physically disciplined? Let me post the section for you:
"But that's what happens in a culture of beating. Beating is a tradition that parents hand down to children, who then…
That's just creepy. "Never hit in anger!" No, I'm sitting down with a kid and explaining to them what they did was wrong and why and making sure they understand, because they are thinking and reasoning human beings, and then I calmly...hit them. What? Why would I do that? What does that teach my kid? Because now they…
"Adrian spanks"
The child is 4. It is the responsibility of the adult, Adrian Peterson, to ensure that the child does not bleed from his scrotum. It's not because "the kids test him every time they switch homes." The toddler bled from his scrotum because the 217 lb man did not act like a responsible adult and repeatedly hit him with…
The only prerequisite to parenting is functional testes/penis and ovaries/uterus. These balls and eggs don't magically bestow parenting powers. LOTS of people need to be told how to raise their kids. A doctor friend of mine saw a baby drinking a bottle with black stuff in it, he asks the mom what formula is that, mom…
Corollary to this: a lot of the people that say "my parents beat me and I turned out great" are not such wonderful poster children for that theory as they seem to imagine.
I've started to notice the people that say "Don't tell me how to raise my kids!" are the exact people that need to be told how to raise their kids.
Not to mention, a further land-grab against Native Americans. At least one of the British decisions that led to war was it thinking about enforcing the "no expansion into Indian territories" treaties, which the colonists living there desperately wanted to do. For anyone who wonders why a fair number of Native…
When Americans rebelled against Britain, they didn't do it alone.
Excellent point - and one that gets overlooked all too frequently in the rush to deify our Founding Fathers. The American Revolution was a grand, self-precipitating experiment in representative democracy (kinda) and equal rights for all (kinda), but it…
"Because it was about states' rights not slavery."