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It takes a village

• 12.05.07
  Unfixed intelligence
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  I often speak of intelligence as something malleable. I do it on purpose, realizing it will annoy those who buy into some of the orthodoxies of the education establishment. I will talk about how watching television will make you dumber. Not that it will waste your time, or that you won't learn anything from it, but that it will make you dumber. Or how studying some difficult subject will make you smarter. I don't just say you will know more. I say it will make you smarter. Another example: I say a lot of our leftwing friends destroyed ...
  
  
• 10.09.07
  It takes a village
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  The moonbats are up in arms over the wingnuts' investigation into the actual circumstances of the exploitation of Graeme Frost for partisan political purposes. But this is what happens in village society, as in "It takes a village." That's what it means to have a village raise a child. What s/he does is everyone's business.