Mr. Debito Arudou speaks nothing but truth in this column on English education in Japan and the ingrained cultural pitfalls it faces. If they abolish the JET Programme for failing to raise Japanese test scores, they might as well abolish the space program for failing to cure cancer.
Sums up Japan’s xenophobia in a nutshell.
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Read the entire address at the link above.
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Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops summarizes (in a single sentence!) what is wrong with religious dogma.
Change = scary. Therefore, no change. KTHANXBAI
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Nine years ago I walked onto the set of “American Splendor” in my Crumb costume and met Harvey Pekar for the first time. He saw me, beamed and exclaimed in his full-throated rasp “That’s him! That’s the guy!” It meant a lot. Later that day, after he’d watched me perform a scene, he said I…
Source: wilwheatonIt’s more than just a slide into obscurity that delivered Gallagher to the Admiral rather than, say, the Moore in Seattle. You see, Gallagher is—how best to put this?—a paranoid, delusional, right-wing religious maniac. I HAD NO IDEA.
