I've been watching some sailor moon episodes. As a kid I liked the theme song but watching the show made me embarrassed because it was for GURLZ (supposedly) and I didn't really understand the stories since it only aired on YTV and my English wasn't that good back then.


After watching it in Japanese though, I was right to be embarrassed cause the version with mitsuishi and co. is much better! The speeches she gives are so high-pitched and hilarious.

This post is about:
"Politics used to be about ideas"
"People used to be less rude"
and others erroneous reasonings based on seeing the flaws of the current situation but not remembering those of the past.

If I had a dime for every time I've heard someone use this line of thinking I would be rich. Very rich.

Sometimes things DID use to be nicer. However in the examples I'm using they were not. Consider this:
-In Ancient...

Tribes 2 is an online super fun futuristic team-based first-person shooter from 2001 with super awesome jetpacks.

Frag movie
Match: Rapture versus Invictus Aeternum on Surreal

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Why don't more people play this game? It is so godly. Wait... flying through the air at 200 miles an hour while raining death...

High school (grades 7-11)
(7) Major leagues! Or not. This is the first time where we have a dedicated moral education teacher.

The teacher is a French lady fresh off the boat. I don't remember what she taught us, predictably. I know she didn't want to teach us her first name. Some weird and hilarious hang-up you had there, Béatrice. I learned from this class that people in France talk about their love interests more readily than their income. Sure is making $35K CDN a year,...

Tom Servo brought this topic up on the philosophers' social group. If I had to write down my idea of moral education I would say it is the process by which values, norms and rules are conveyed.

However this post is going to be about moral education: the class, as well the associated jarfuls of crazy. Background: historically, in Montreal, French schools were Catholic and English schools were protestant (and vice-versa). So if you wanted your kid to learn French you sent him to a Catholic...