Governing a smaller amount of people certainly has its advantages, sometimes.

Not that I know of. A discussion of the 5% tax cut is in the MJ piece, but the text isn't linked, so I'll just attach it here: http://www.navajo-nsn.gov/News%20Release…

cut taxes on healthy food,

Something I wish this article mentioned: last year, the nation also removed a 5% tax on fresh produce.

I would have absolutely no problem with my doctor asking about radon detectors.

I'm mixed (I've actually posted a moderate amount about my career on here, and it's a small pond, so I'm going to leave it there), and there's absolutely an element of 'we get to be us here' in a lot of other minority-dominated churches. My parents pride themselves on being very 'assimilated', but even they get seem…

This comment should be stapled to the fucking top of every discussion held by predominantly white, college educated middle-classers about religion. I'm hot and cold on religion, but I do subscribe to several church newsletter in my area, because they provide important services that the state we live in has decided it…

It's true. I think she's great for doing this, but getting girls to enter the pipeline is going to keep failing as long as inequality is baked into the corporate crust.

I'm a little hesitant because of how over the top the last scene with Jane Krakowski was, but the whole narrative of rejecting one's cultural heritage, and discovering that you feel you're missing a part of you and wanting back in felt really real to me. I've seen it in my family and I'm cautiously intriuged by where…

*Good day, ma'am.

No, you've been super unclear and threw hilarious tantrums in response to simple, straightforward requests for clarification.

But this study pretty clearly shows that praising effort does build true self-esteem and self worth. And that telling kids they're special builds unhealthy, dependent self esteem. I don't really see why it would be a good thing to build the latter. The former is clearly better.

Except that I did cite my sources from the get go: My personal experience

No, I feel pretty good. But I can't pretend that watching an adult have a toddler-style meltdown over being asked to cite their sources isn't a little fun.

I've ignored that and been rather nice and debated in good faith in spite of it, but you can fuck right off with that depressed child shaming bullshit.

It's possible that intheweeds didn't mean that. But I asked what would be helped by students being praised as gifted, they replied depression and refused to elaborate or clarify on that point. If that isn't what he or she meant, he or she has had ample oppurtunities to address the misunderstanding and has chosen not…

From my first post:

I completely understand what people are saying. But I think people are pretty biased to view themselves as the good guy in their own stories, and that this is why we should look at what the literature actually says. Intheweeds made a specific claim: that adults telling children they are special will alleviate…

Not really, but I'd rather that you stick to the claims that I'm actually disputing.

Anyway, what it did for years was make me feel like, if my great work was going to be treated as no better than okay work simply because I didn't have to work that hard to get a perfect score, then why bother doing great work?