But this raises the question of why ABC's This Week (Stephanopoulos's show), NBC's Meet the Press (David Gregory, superliberal), and CBS's Face the Nation (Bob Schieffer, probably liberal?) each all routinely trounce (as in 2-3x viewership) Fox News Sunday in the ratings, both now and often during the Bush administration when Fox had better access to many administration officials. If putting on liberal news/talk hosts was against the networks' best financial interest, I would expect that to be reflected in their ratings.<snip>
I would think it is because a large portion of FoxNews' audience is usually attending church on Sunday morning.
That said, at 18 years old you are not a real person yet. The person you are at 18 and the person you will be at 26 are very different. Its not a matter of emotional maturity relative to other people, its a matter of emotional maturity relative to oneself. At 18 you haven't finished developing
By this logic, the 26-year-old is not a real person either, since they will grow and be a different person at 34, and again at 42 - and if they didn't, we'd probably see them as immature. · 1 minute ago
Agreed, we should continue to mature and change. My take on Nyadnar17's point was the extreme change that occurs from a technically adult 18 year old to 4,6,8+ years later when the person (hopefully) has had more experience with life as an adult.
...I think we should ponder the meaning of the likely fact that hardly anyone would blame a woman for requiring her potential spouse to have a job. In other words, some conditions are more reasonable than others.
<snip>My mother-in-law worked hard and long hours, side by side with her husband all her married life in the family business. I think she was an outstanding mother. A rarely great mother--to judge by her sons. Much more selflessly dedicated to her family than many stay at home mothers I know. · 5 minutes ago
Well, that's the key, isn't it really? Not whether or not you have the good fortune to both want and be a SAHM but where your dedication is as a wife and mother, regardless of the particular avenue(s) that life presents.
This may be our subject's unexpressed desire. My guess is it may not be, given his (young) age and given that truly appreciating dedication is typically learned through living life.
The first Johnny Cash song I remember hearing is Boy Named Sue on the local radio. It sure wasn't the Herman's Hermits and Monkees fare I was used to.
Hurt is my absolute favorite of Johnny's recordings. I had a bit of a different takeaway than the FirstThings commentary mentioned by Michael. I felt Johnny was singing about the emptiness of chasing the baubles and heights of this life, the aching loss of those you love to these temporal bodies we inhabit and the pain of his own failing body and finally, perhaps, deep regret believing he had failed his Saviour. But, I guess that's the nature of art, we all interpret it subjectively. My "low country Protestantism" is kicking in here.
Bill, funny you should mention Tarwater... I've always thought of Johnny Cash as a Flannery O'Connor character in the flesh.
???? I have an Android phone, a Motorola Atrix, and on it I receive podcast feeds through Doggcatcher. Just the main podcast so far, I haven't yet set up the rest.
Another INTJ here... Ooh, I've just received Susan Cain's book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking from Amazon.
In the article, the author makes this statement:
"She offers John Lilly, former CEO of Mozilla, as an example. He would force himself to walk the halls and make eye contact because he hadn’t realized how much it offended people when he didn’t greet them."
I so identify with this! Part of it was the southern lady manners I was raised with kicking in but I did have to force myself to do the same in a work environment when, really, I just wanted to go get my coffee and make a quick retreat back to my office.
Schoolmarm: Sorry - just one more comment (love of homeschooling is my one weakness). I just read and thoroughly enjoyed your husband's column! The next time someone shares their concern that your child will be "missing something" by not attending the local school, he might try what my husband says in similar conversations. "Once a week or so I take my kid into the bathroom and beat him up for his lunch money. He's not missing anything." · 2 hours ago
Schoolmarm, you wouldn't happen to have seen the BBC TV show Lark Rise to Candleford?
My main purpose for posting the link is thinking about those voters in Virginia who are definitely not in Romney's camp and won't vote for him in the primary. The ABR's. This excludes those voters who are definitely for Paul. What about the rest? Will they vote for Ron Paul as a protest vote? Will they stay home? Stay home this year of all years??
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Indeed. Are there schools other than Hillsdale that have opted out? · 0 minutes ago
I know of one other - Grove City College. See http://www.gcc.edu/Benefits_of_Independence.php.