tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post6453467571814034173..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: High schoolUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55910418285096107752013-01-25T16:21:23.287-08:002013-01-25T16:21:23.287-08:00America also warehouses the young in school way to...America also warehouses the young in school way too long; resulting in crappy films like "Mean Girls" that resonate deeply with the dimmer among the symbol-manipulator class. Give them a choice of a certificate or vocational school at age 15, save a lot of money that wayAlcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46701679705501849262013-01-25T16:16:29.618-08:002013-01-25T16:16:29.618-08:00re: Tom Wolfe, wasn't that view of high-school...re: Tom Wolfe, wasn't that view of high-school social competition the predominant theme of his previous novel (I think it was about the NYU lax team, or something like that)? Also the tail-end metrics of selection are a major motif in The Right Stuff...Alcalde Jaime Miguel Curleohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11801154986193443160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18175828399617565792013-01-25T15:15:24.398-08:002013-01-25T15:15:24.398-08:00Right, Redwood, not Modesto and .289 - 23 - 93, wi...Right, Redwood, not Modesto and .289 - 23 - 93, with lots of walks. A good season, but they couldn't seem to figure out which position to play him at -- catcher, third, first or outfield. If he could have made it as a catcher with that kind of bat, he likely could have had decent big league career. On the other hand, if he can only play first or left, well, there are lots of guys with that kind of bat. It appears he got hurt the next season, and that was that.<br /><br />Anyway, at age six in the school yard, his physical dominance at sports was so clear that he ran the games. Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33321850975351182912013-01-25T13:19:10.760-08:002013-01-25T13:19:10.760-08:00From Baseball Reference, I see that John played .....<i>From Baseball Reference, I see that John played ... at Modesto in ... 1980</i><br /><br />No, he played for Redwood, which was Rohnert Park (Sonoma County). Nice stats. The Cal league is known as "fast" Class-A. ehnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70613360778638567522013-01-25T10:22:45.848-08:002013-01-25T10:22:45.848-08:00@Steve Sailer
"Much of modern liberalism c... @Steve Sailer<br /><br /> "Much of modern liberalism consists of people trying to get revenge on the football players they felt inferior to in school."<br /><br /> Wrong. You disprove this hypothesis. looking at pictures of you, it is pretty obvious that you should have embraced loiberalism if your hypothesis were true, and yet you gre up to become a (very)conservative. Hypothesis disproven.Nick Diaznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88734990039099408342013-01-25T09:52:35.182-08:002013-01-25T09:52:35.182-08:00"I hated kickball."
Ow, My Balls."I hated kickball."<br /><br />Ow, My Balls. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79060016152838073902013-01-25T04:55:47.039-08:002013-01-25T04:55:47.039-08:00"Of course Wolfe's an ultra-sensitive guy..."Of course Wolfe's an ultra-sensitive guy. He's the single most important American writer of the second half of the 20th Century."<br /><br />Touché - but I meant "sensitive" more in the sense in which elementary school teachers use it, where, as an acquaintance of mine once put it, "he's a sensitive boy" is a euphemism for "he cries a lot."James Kabalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02335302113772004687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91030367113572133482013-01-25T01:22:24.277-08:002013-01-25T01:22:24.277-08:00"libs dare attack unions head-on as democrati..."libs dare attack unions head-on as democratic party is *supposed* to be the party of the working class." <br /><br />correction:<br /><br />libs dare NOTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7802846992262502502013-01-24T23:12:04.149-08:002013-01-24T23:12:04.149-08:00On the spot, I kicked a double off the fence, for ...<i>On the spot, I kicked a double off the fence, for my big kickball career triumph.</i><br /><br />I hated kickball. My kicks never had any power so batting was usually an embarrassing experience. The most embarrassing was psyching myself up for a really big kick once and completely missing the ball. Man, that still kills me. Also, kickball was a teacher-organized (phys ed? probably) activity for us so there was no way out of it. I don't know of any kids ever organizing a game for pure fun though, which is what I gather occurs in America. We used to play British Bulldogs for fun during recess. One hell of a game, that. Strength was an advantage in tackling and breaking tackles, but speed and agility were the most important traits. I am way stronger nowadays and I would dearly <i>love</i> a school reunion playing that again - yep, still some scores to settle, lol.Silvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86281743956818570562013-01-24T22:55:06.256-08:002013-01-24T22:55:06.256-08:00"Poor immigrants make bad neighborhoods."... "Poor immigrants make bad neighborhoods."<br /><br />they supply the cheap labor for business, services, construction, and union busting.<br />libs dare attack unions head-on as democratic party is *supposed* to be the party of the working class. <br />libs undermine unions by 'diversity' tactics. use minions to undercut unions while professing to protect unions from gop.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25856250555458331562013-01-24T22:50:31.151-08:002013-01-24T22:50:31.151-08:00"I never "banged" Uma Thurman, but ..."I never "banged" Uma Thurman, but I have stood downwind of her and can report she stunk like hell."<br /><br />Only in isteveophere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4014171379528913082013-01-24T21:23:51.735-08:002013-01-24T21:23:51.735-08:00I'm somehow not surprised thatTarantino got be...I'm somehow not surprised thatTarantino got beat up a lot in high school. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-92142198221395364222013-01-24T20:51:55.488-08:002013-01-24T20:51:55.488-08:00I never "banged" Uma Thurman, but I have...I never "banged" Uma Thurman, but I have stood downwind of her and can report she stunk like hell. <br /><br /> I met Liv Tyler and the rest of the cast of the movie "Heavy" on a location shoot and can say she doesn't look that tall in person. I think it's maybe the best film she ever did. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10512645247509031262013-01-24T19:59:57.397-08:002013-01-24T19:59:57.397-08:00To prop up the lesser rich and middle class in cit...<i>To prop up the lesser rich and middle class in cities, there has to be cost-cutting measures to make expensive city living less expensive, and that is immigrant labor.</i><br /><br />You're wrong, all wrong. Poor immigrants make bad neighborhoods. Non-rich whites want to move away from bad neighborhoods, which results in higher costs of living for non-rich white folks.<br /><br />Granted, poor immigrants make cheaper servants, thereby making city living less expensive for the class of those who hire cheap labor. But most of the middle class is more interested in affordable housing than in hiring low wage workers.David Davenportnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1025221827909089272013-01-24T17:55:06.989-08:002013-01-24T17:55:06.989-08:00even a rousing game of duck, duck, goose will sort...<i>even a rousing game of duck, duck, goose will sort the nimble from the future water boys right quick.</i> <br /><br /><br />Europe has no water boys, and thus no "future water boys".<br /><br />One of the errors all humans are prone to is thinking that the social conventions of their own society reflect something profound and eternal about human nature. Once in a while they do, of course, but usually not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44856717082674783602013-01-24T16:51:01.532-08:002013-01-24T16:51:01.532-08:00Yeah, you don't need "real" sports t...Yeah, you don't need "real" sports to tell who the athletes are. Dodgeball, kickball, even a rousing game of duck, duck, goose will sort the nimble from the future water boys right quick.Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82022442362502433942013-01-24T15:56:11.246-08:002013-01-24T15:56:11.246-08:00In first and second grade, we played kickball. Joh...In first and second grade, we played kickball. John Hanley, who went on to have a five year minor league baseball career, was a total stud at kickball. Whichever team had Hanley on it just had him come up to bat (kick?) whenever the bases were loaded. I recall protesting that the way real baseball was played was that everybody batted in order and that therefore I should come up to the plate now with the bases loaded. To my surprise, Hanley, after thinking about this, agreed, so, of course, everybody went along with what Hanley thought. On the spot, I kicked a double off the fence, for my big kickball career triumph.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69100118047091558782013-01-24T15:52:59.967-08:002013-01-24T15:52:59.967-08:00If he's "fucked up", what does that ...<i>If he's "fucked up", what does that make you?</i><br /><br />Yeah, and Howard Stern's even richer. Hey Steve! We've been missing the real causation vector all along!not a hackernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51968265949303414572013-01-24T15:48:22.709-08:002013-01-24T15:48:22.709-08:00but in first grade, I don't think there was mu...<i>but in first grade, I don't think there was much opportunity, because no one was playing real sports.</i><br /><br />In my first grade, the opportunity was called dodgeball. I well remember the one guy I could never hit. Forty years later, he hailed me from his UPS truck in downtown san francisco. <br />mel bellinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91521195638993464512013-01-24T15:13:19.193-08:002013-01-24T15:13:19.193-08:00"If he's "fucked up", what does..."If he's "fucked up", what does that make you?"<br /><br />Maybe he/she meant you gotta be 'fuc*ed up'(and creative) to fuc* a lot of people. A lot of rock stars are fuc*ed up, but they get lots of chicks. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90919740843307220292013-01-24T14:38:27.949-08:002013-01-24T14:38:27.949-08:00Of course Wolfe's an ultra-sensitive guy. He&#...Of course Wolfe's an ultra-sensitive guy. He's the single most important American writer of the second half of the 20th Century.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10844206136065365662013-01-24T14:34:34.542-08:002013-01-24T14:34:34.542-08:00Well, clearly everyone has different experiences, ...Well, clearly everyone has different experiences, and some have sharper memories - my first grade experience is pretty much a blur, and from what I do remember, recess consisted mainly of running around in a disorganized fashion. There might have a "dominant athlete" in my fourth grade class, but in first grade, I don't think there was much opportunity, because no one was playing real sports.<br /><br />If Tom Wolfe really still broods about a decades-old incident involving being cut in line for a cab, he is a pretty ultra-sensitive guy.James Kabalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02335302113772004687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64059129167685574782013-01-24T14:33:36.166-08:002013-01-24T14:33:36.166-08:00"I do remember reading that Tarantino suffere..."I do remember reading that Tarantino suffered terrible bullying from blacks at his public school.<br />He left school shortly before turning sixteen because of this.<br />He had a mixed race step dad and his mothers best friends were black women.<br />No wonder he's so messed up."<br /><br />Well hey, Sport, that leads to an excellent question, which I'll get to in a second. <br /><br />Tarantino is a very wealthy man who is internationally known, has banged Uma Thurman and Mira Sorvino, and is mentioned in college lectures, magazines, and industry publications from coast to coast and around the world. He has changed the way movies are made, clawed his way to the top of an ULTRA competitive field, and formed a company that releases lesser-known foreign pictures to the American art house, cinephile crowd; so my question is this:<br /><br />If he's "fucked up", what does that make you?Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52055753503833113082013-01-24T14:16:26.904-08:002013-01-24T14:16:26.904-08:00"If more studies like this get attention, cou..."If more studies like this get attention, count on home-schooling and "apprenticeship" to be the next, big SWPL fad. Once shorn of its fundamentalist Christian taint, home-schooling has everything SWPL's love- it's basically artisinal child-rearing."<br />This comment may prove very prescient. Just a week or two ago there was an article circulating around the conservative internet about groups of middle-upper middle class parents homeschooling in New York City... Manhattan no less IIRC.Cornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83762193943477116062013-01-24T14:16:12.562-08:002013-01-24T14:16:12.562-08:00"Kid comes out in award acceptance speech&quo..."Kid comes out in award acceptance speech"<br /><br />Faux-courage, just like 'leftism' in college is faux-radicalism. <br /><br />Today, you are showered with love and approval if you come out. What took courage in the past is no more. If anything, it takes more courage for gays to remain in the closet as other gays will hassle him or her to death to come out!!! <br /><br />But really...<br /><br />so, he came out with the fact that he likes to come inside men's fecal holes. I mean ewwwwww. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com