Monthly Archive for December, 2005

WTF?

Here is a quote from Bill Bennett who was the secretary of Education under the Reagan administration and now has a radio show.

…I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down…

This is scary. What kind if fool would actually believe this. And this is America??? Land of the free???

So, it certainly begs the question… that I think only Bill can answer… being the expert that he is on these matters; what happens if you abort babies of other nationalities? What exactly would happen??? What exactly is the logic behind this thinking. I do understand he just read Freakonomics but how can someone be so dense as to believe such a hypothesis. And then to state it as fact…

WordPress 2.0

Just installed 2.0 RC3. Everything is working fine with my theme and the Spam Karma and Gallery2 plugins work well. Now I just need content!

12/26/2005 Update: Just installed full release. No problem. Smooth sailing.