Pearls Before Swine: Banned Books https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/04
I am a devout Christian but I don't want to live in a theocracy. I also
don't trust anyone to make up a list of banned books.
Pearls Before Swine: Banned Books https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/04
I am a devout Christian but I don't want to live in a theocracy. I also
don't trust anyone to make up a list of banned books.
Pearls Before Swine: Banned Books https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/04
I am a devout Christian but I don't want to live in a theocracy. I also
don't trust anyone to make up a list of banned books.
Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com> wrote:
And Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip suggests
that Floridians will be forced to read Dilbert,
so that would be forcing people to read apparently
offensive books and anyone who's gone to school
knows what it's like to be forced to read
offensive books like The Color Purple.
That is nothing. In one school, I was forced to learn long division
against my will even though I found it extremely offensive.
--scott
--
And Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip suggests
that Floridians will be forced to read Dilbert,
so that would be forcing people to read apparently
offensive books and anyone who's gone to school
knows what it's like to be forced to read
offensive books like The Color Purple.
Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com> wrote:
And Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip suggests
that Floridians will be forced to read Dilbert,
so that would be forcing people to read apparently
offensive books and anyone who's gone to school
knows what it's like to be forced to read
offensive books like The Color Purple.
That is nothing. In one school, I was forced to learn long division
against my will even though I found it extremely offensive.
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:33:08 -0800, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com> wrote:
And Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip suggests
that Floridians will be forced to read Dilbert,
so that would be forcing people to read apparently
offensive books and anyone who's gone to school
knows what it's like to be forced to read
offensive books like The Color Purple.
That is nothing. In one school, I was forced to learn long division
against my will even though I found it extremely offensive.
I learned long division from a school teacher who
simply told how to do it. I find the "guessing game"
school of pedagogy to be offensive.
In article <ur0kv4$ebn$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com> wrote:
And Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip suggests
that Floridians will be forced to read Dilbert,
so that would be forcing people to read apparently
offensive books and anyone who's gone to school
knows what it's like to be forced to read
offensive books like The Color Purple.
That is nothing. In one school, I was forced to learn long division >>against my will even though I found it extremely offensive.
--scott
--
They don't do that anymore as far as I can tell, so the kids just have
no idea how to divide on paper.
On Sun, 04 Feb 2024 23:38:59 -0800, Lynn McGuire wrote:
Pearls Before Swine: Banned Books
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/04
I am a devout Christian but I don't want to live in a theocracy. I also
don't trust anyone to make up a list of banned books.
In recent history over 50 Dilbert comics books
have been banned! Let's see Pearls Before Swine
complain about that!
And Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip suggests
that Floridians will be forced to read Dilbert,
so that would be forcing people to read apparently
offensive books and anyone who's gone to school
knows what it's like to be forced to read
offensive books like The Color Purple.
When I was taking 400-level classes in the 80s, which were mostly
about /real/ Algebra and Analysis, one of these classes involved doing
/long division with functions/.=20
You think I am kidding. I wish I were. Although it isn't that bad once
one gets the hang of it.
On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:21:11 -0800, Paul S Person ><psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
When I was taking 400-level classes in the 80s, which were mostly
about /real/ Algebra and Analysis, one of these classes involved doing >>/long division with functions/.=20
You think I am kidding. I wish I were. Although it isn't that bad once
one gets the hang of it.
REALLY??! I was doing this in grade 11 algebra back in 1972.
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:32:09 -0800, Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com>
wrote:
On Sun, 04 Feb 2024 23:38:59 -0800, Lynn McGuire wrote:I consider myself one as well - but have no time for those that would
Pearls Before Swine: Banned Books
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/02/04
I am a devout Christian but I don't want to live in a theocracy. I also
don't trust anyone to make up a list of banned books.
In recent history over 50 Dilbert comics books
have been banned! Let's see Pearls Before Swine
complain about that!
And Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip suggests
that Floridians will be forced to read Dilbert,
so that would be forcing people to read apparently
offensive books and anyone who's gone to school
knows what it's like to be forced to read
offensive books like The Color Purple.
burn books or do the "Charlie Hebdo thing". And the creator of "Jesus
Pis" or the Nikos Kantizakis sub-plot about Jesus throwing it all over
in favor of a "normal life" is at least as offensive as those Danish >cartoons.
Frankly I have nothing but contempt for the sort of Muslims who seem
to feel they have the right to engage in violence any time they feel
their faith is offended.
(Given the Mad Magazine parody of Lawrence of Arabia years ago it's
amazing they didn't declare jihad!)
And that very much >IS< happening more and more in Europe and European >countries who are quasi-defending Muslims who do outrageous things
like the ones who using searchlights shone "From the River to the Sea"
onto Big Ben.
If you're a Muslim and want to live in peace in the West as a good
neighbor (and I know personally quite a few who do) all well and good.
If you want to remake my society in your image to fit your social
mores - then to Hell with you. Nowhere more so than in attitudes
towards women.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has documented a lot of this in detail in her book--
Prey. (I am aware she has since converted to Christianity but Prey was >written long before that)
It was, BTW, not presented as anything we had been exposed to before.
The Horny Goat wrote:
On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:21:11 -0800, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
When I was taking 400-level classes in the 80s, which were mostly
about /real/ Algebra and Analysis, one of these classes involved doing >>/long division with functions/.=20
You think I am kidding. I wish I were. Although it isn't that bad once >>one gets the hang of it.
REALLY??! I was doing this in grade 11 algebra back in 1972.
Are you talking about long division with polynomials, which I too did in
11th grade (I was a year ahead), or long division with some more general class of functions, which I know nothing about?
We also did synthetic division in 11th grade. That's short long division with polynomials.
The Horny Goat wrote:
On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:21:11 -0800, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
When I was taking 400-level classes in the 80s, which were mostly
about /real/ Algebra and Analysis, one of these classes involved doing >>>/long division with functions/.=20
You think I am kidding. I wish I were. Although it isn't that bad once >>>one gets the hang of it.
REALLY??! I was doing this in grade 11 algebra back in 1972.
Are you talking about long division with polynomials, which I too did in
11th grade (I was a year ahead), or long division with some more general >class of functions, which I know nothing about?
We also did synthetic division in 11th grade. That's short long division >with polynomials.--
In article <893a27ba579b2475edd178f4de8f1379@www.novabbs.com>,
jerry.friedman99@gmail.com (jerryfriedman) wrote:
The Horny Goat wrote:
On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:21:11 -0800, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
When I was taking 400-level classes in the 80s, which were mostly
about /real/ Algebra and Analysis, one of these classes involved doing
/long division with functions/.=20
You think I am kidding. I wish I were. Although it isn't that bad once
one gets the hang of it.
REALLY??! I was doing this in grade 11 algebra back in 1972.
Are you talking about long division with polynomials, which I too did in
11th grade (I was a year ahead), or long division with some more general
class of functions, which I know nothing about?
We also did synthetic division in 11th grade. That's short long division
with polynomials.
While the example of long division with polynomials looked familiar, I
don't remember doing it in high school. I do remember being taught how
to extract a square root (which I think is an application of synthetic >division).
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