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3 million views in two days.
I do think there is an entitlement mentality out there in some parts of the world.
What are your thoughts on this?
Are chores a good “teaching moment” for kids?
Should parents take strong action when they feel their child’s view of entitlement may differ from their own?
I’d love to get Randy Report readers thoughts on this.
A few months ago I reached out to a prominent cabaret performer I admire to promote her new CD on my blog because I believed in it. I really loved the CD. We’re talking free promotion to 100K readers.
The artist responded, and I emailed a few interview questions to accompany the proposed blog post promoting the CD.
Result? Blew me off and never sent back responses.
Kind of hurt my feelings – ‘who cares about your little blog’ – but I guess I can get over it….
You fabulous “Randy Report” 100K readers can do without news about the artist I guess.
Oh well….
Watching someone get “tased” just makes his day?
How about I write this: “Watching a conservative political pundit get sent to the hospital just makes my day…”
That sound good?
Having worked in the national touring companies of several Broadway shows – often for years at a time – I completely relate to the story told here.
It can be a strangely unsettling thing to not ‘belong’ somewhere for so long.
Unpacking your life, in many ways, is healthy for us.
“The shorter the grass, the taller the tree…”
Alrighty then. Not sure about that, but if MTV says so…
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This coming Spring 2012 semester, students at the Waco, Texas, Baylor University will be offered a new sociology course titled “Homosexuality as Gateway Drug.”
What exactly does this mean?
A Michigan man who won $2 million in a state lottery game continues to collect food stamps 11 months after striking it rich.
And there’s nothing the state can do about it, at least for now.
Leroy Fick, 59, of Auburn won $2 million in the state lottery TV show “Make Me Rich!” last June. But the state’s Department of Human Services determined he was still eligible for food stamps, Fick’s attorney, John Wilson of Midland, said Tuesday.
Eligibility for food stamps is based on gross income and follows federal guidelines; lottery winnings are considered liquid assets and don’t count as income. As long as Fick’s gross income stays below the eligibility requirement for food stamps, he can receive them, even if he has a million dollars in the bank.
Food stamps are paid for through tax dollars and are meant to help support low-income families.
Wilson said Fick told the DHS officials he’d won $2 million but was told he could keep using the Bridge Card issued to him to buy groceries.
Though the food stamp program is federal and states must follow U.S. guidelines, states sometimes request waivers of rules. Michigan was granted a waiver recently to stop college students from qualifying for food stamps.
“For Leroy Fick to continue to use a Bridge Card, paid for by the taxpayers, after winning the lottery, is obscene,” said Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge. “What a waste of taxpayer money.”
Jones contacted DHS officials Monday about Fick’s case, and was told the department’s hands were tied by federal regulations.
“There is no liquid asset requirement for getting food stamps,” Jones said. “The department is asking the federal government for an immediate change (in policy). They’re hoping this case will help the federal government act.”
(via DetroitNews)
A study in the journal “Current Biology” looked at students who identified their political views on a scale from “very liberal” to “very conservative.”
The “liberal” students tended to have a larger region of the brain that processes conflicting information, the anterior cingulate cortex. In other words, the region of the brain that helps us take two opposing ideas and weigh them out for ourselves
The “conservatives” tended to have a larger Amygdala – the part of the brain that identifies fear and threats.
So I wonder, based on those findings, if that means that some people tend to hold conservative political views because they have a greater innate fear of things such as government?
“Previously, some psychological traits were known to be predictive of an individual’s political orientation. Our study now links such personality traits with specific brain structure,” Kanai said in a journal news release.
The study appears online April 7 in the journal Current Biology.
Things that make you go “hmmmmm…”