It's like being in... jail.

1. Tell the person you're arguing with you're no longer going to argue about this any more.

Thanks for checking in, Spock.

Now that's a different argument. To say the American system emphasizes (or de-emphasizes) something too much is different than saying we should adopt an emphasis that is foreign to it and plug it into the system. I am very familiar with the American education system (I have a close family member who has been a school…

Yes. And Jeter plays more games per season than Babe Ruth ever did. And was a much lower batting average than Ruth.

"Start rapping."

What I am saying is that you WOULD have to clone the Finnish cultural context for this to work because egalitarianism is a cultural trait — it's not like arranging the classroom chairs in a semi-circle instead of rows or team teaching or changing the classroom size. And cultural cloning doesn't work. You can't…

Most of that rant had nothing to do with what I said, but if it made you feel better to get it off your chest, fantastic.

Yes, it is about cloning. Just because Finland does x, y, or z does not mean they would work in a completely different political, cultural, historical, and legal context. Many if not most people in Finland sit around naked in saunas even with strangers. That should indicate a very different cultural context,…

Straw man argument.

I agree with you completely but this is Gawker and you're not allowed to say Scandinavian socialism cannot be cloned and exported to America, so I have to post this:

All right, well thank you for sharing that excerpt of your diary with us today. I got a lot out of scrolling past 4/5 of it. Maybe next time consider publishing it in chapters.

'at's one of them there Obama drones!!!!!

"Bitch, please."

"big"?

But we got this: http://screamer.deadspin.com/hey-check-out-…

And then Rammstein weighs in.

Meh. So what? They didn't charge for the extra mileage after aborting the landing, so what are they complaining about? ;-)