Jeff Rigby wrote:
At USF the smart people were on the HARD science side of the campus and the
Liberal arts side of the campus had the most muddle headed people.

And that's true on both sides of the fence.


... For
instance, my English literature professor was preaching communism in class.
In her class, those of us from the Hard science side of the campus were
telling her that communism wouldn't work as it went against too many
imperatives built into human beings to be a workable system.

Did you ever stop to think that you were the student, and the teacher
was the teacher? I see you began your career of big mouth & closed mind
early on.



It always irked me that there were different math and science courses
offered for hard science students and liberal arts students. They are called
the same but the liberal arts version is MUCH easier.

In all the college catalogs I am aware of, they are *not* given the same
designation. In fact, if the material is different then they must be
named & designated differently.


... Same number of credit
hour too but we would get zero credits for those courses for our majors. I
always found that courses offered on the liberal arts side of the campus
were very easy.


In some cases yes. OTOH I remember a fellow engineer who was furious
with an economics professor for giving him a GPA busting grade. The
student had a childish tantrum in front of the class, yelling (among
other things) that this was an easy class. However, this guy was in my
study group and he just plain didn't know the material... which might
not have been extremely difficult (300 level micro econ), but it
certainly wasn't See Spot Run.




You can't bull**** a computer, machine or building and have it work.

Yep, that's why it's really stupid & short sighted to continue to apply
political and religious litmus tests to political, military, & economic
problems.


... But
you can bull**** people especially if they are young or believe the same
bull****.


Which is why the Bush Administration has been able to hang on to it's
power & influence. It may finally be on the wane as people are figuring
out the hypocrisy & greed, but maybe not.

DSK