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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

When is discrimination OK?

My very, very long response to a comment over at Sadly, No!:
the appalling thing about what I wrote
the more i learn about these hideous people the more terrified i become. it’s not as if they’re centralized in one remote spot; they could be living next door or on the next block.
is that it matches what [...]

3 Comments » - Posted in In Dorothy's World by Dorothy

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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

God, Save Us from Merit Pay for Teachers!

Matt Yglesias has a post about presidential campaigns discussing merit pay for teachers. My response to a comment there got really, really long, so I’m pasting it over here:
The underlying logic of merit pay seems perfectly intuitive, of course, I’m just not sure it would work out.
It does seem intuitive until you consider that the [...]

4 Comments » - Posted in In Dorothy's World by Dorothy

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Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Moral, Schmoral

After General Pace commented about the immorality of homosexuality, the major presidential candidates have all been asked the question, “Do you believe homosexuality is immoral?”
To me, the only answer to ANY question regarding “moral” issues in politics is some variant of this:
It does not matter whether I believe something is immoral. It only matters that [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in In Dorothy's World by Dorothy

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