That's the point of Boko Haram to launch these attacks. They believe that Western education is shirk. (It's inherent in their name) And they've learned from the LRA that the best way to keep people in fear and away from Western education systems is to target their females as a weapon of war.

Rule #1 of realist international relations theory—states act in accordance with their self-interest.

I have bad eyesight and read that as "hipsters not associated with a terrorist organization."

Wasn't there a really awful National Lampoon-type movie where they did this with dog semen and donuts? It was literally the worst movie I saw after the frat kid wanked the dog to magazines with poodles on it labeled "Bitches."

That's what the debate was about, the merits of slavery and Jim Crow. It happened despite your disbelief. And I'm sure if we had comprehensive sex ed in Texas we would have seen a similar assignment on rape judging by the creepiness of our health teacher/coach.

Are you in high school or something? There is a world before President Obama when race wasn't in the news every day. And in 2001 we had bigger worries than what to debate in class. Because, you know, there was a history-altering terror attack that continues to define foreign policy.

I'm not African-American and this occurred in 2001. Our teacher and superintendent were African-American. The students sucked it the fuck up and made shitty arguments for slavery, but the school system didn't shut down, there weren't riots in the streets, and we didn't have people feigning outrage for a school…

African-Americans in my history class had to defend slavery and Jim Crow in a class debate in a school that was at least 40% African-American. We didn't have internet warriors to come to their defense and parents didn't get offended about it. The thing is, we have a sizable chunk of people who believe…

Exactly. When I was in middle school we had a debate on the merits of slavery and Jim Crow during a class block on the Civil War and Reconstruction. We had African-American kids arguing about how slavery and Jim Crow was a good thing. No one got butthurt or offended even though my classmates are still being…

Not exactly, although the name sort of gives credence to the idea that it is a movement ("Western education is forbidden" is the common translation, but a more accurate translation would incorporate the idea that Western education is given godhood status which is WHY it is forbidden/haram.) It started as a riot and…

Like the Lord's Resistance Army, a syncretist Christian-pagan group, never had a problem with kidnapping girls and using them as currency and a way to cure the AIDS of commanders?

Bullshit. I spent a great deal of grad school studying religiously-based African terror groups and their host countries and Nigeria will not have any part of the US looking for the leaders of Boko Haram OR the girls. Nigeria will not allow Green Berets to help because their culture sees America as only using it for…

For about 10 years Harris County in Texas was number one in executions and number one in death row exonerations. The Houston Crime Lab was under federal investigation for letting tens of thousands of rape kits go untested, and having its chief forensics officer frequently show up to work shitfaced drunk. I shudder…

Texas State student? Ain't nothing in San Marcos except Texas State, poverty, and that hole in the ground called Wonder World (the "Wonder" in "Wonder World" is wondering why in the world you went there instead of Natural Bridge Caverns).

Texas is actually one of the least corrupt states according to Sunshine Review. My former professor is now at the Mercatus Institute and ranked it high on economic freedom. But the summers...my god.

Besides the fact that Texas was its own country with presidents after fighting a war against Mexico, starting the oil boom in Spindletop that made the world what it is today, having the second largest container port in the US that facilitates a good deal of trade, a world-renowned cancer center and the location of…

I'm a follower of state politics and the chairman of the Republican Party in Texas keeps on referring to us as a "problem," like the existence of Latinos is something that needs to be solved. I listened to Dan Patrick before he became a big shot (when his friend the child molester Jon Matthews left the air) and he's…

I can listen to better bands in Austin or Houston if I so desired, and they would be the ones that hit the national scene after SXSW. I've been to California ONCE and I will never go back there again if I can help it.

Considering that the 'Fornie Carpetbaggers keep on moving to my state en masse, no. The U-Haul rates from Texas to California and vice versa are quite telling on who wants to move where.

Cuahtemoc is Nahuatl for "He who has descended like an eagle," so if your pregnancy was a pleasant surprise it would be an apropos name.