Dante Pleiades's List: Culture

The writer tell how his kid play Grand Theft Auto, and instead of killing people, he saves them. While this does suggest people are not born bad, I don't know you can extrapolate from this that people are born good. It could just be one interesting interaction between one child and one game. It also suggests the impact of the group, and how the group can influence an individuals behavior just by exposure. Given 10 years, this child is likely to play the game more in line with how it was envisioned.

This little girl says it all, why does she choose the white girl as the good girl? Because it looks like her and the dark one doesn't. Racism is something that is natural, which isn't to say it is acceptable. Acceptance is something you teach your children about, you teach them to be understanding. The impulse of nature is to trust that which is familiar and fear that which isn't. The test this girl takes is not something her mother should be crying about.

Mainstream Media, or liberal media, or whatever you want to call it has taken a fair number of shots at religion - and Christianity. It has also done a fair amount of supporting it as well. I'm not sure why Maher would even make a claim, that on the surface can so easily be shown false.\n\nOn a side note, S.E. looks hot on her book cover.

...very lucky.

I mean really, it is just one bad idea after another over there at NBC. It is like the old story about a guy who tries to have keep to girl friends. When they find out about each other, he runs back and forth trying to keep them both - but ends up losing them both.

...it was real and it was fun. But it wasn't REAL FUN!

Just skip to 26 seconds in. You won't regret it. [Politco]

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