Thursday, November 19, 2009

Bad news for Alaska...

From a student essay..

"In Alaska infantacide is good, in America it is bad"...

-- or, maybe that's good, Alaska really doesn't need us.

5 comments:

Seeking Solace said...

Um...right.

julie said...

Almost as good as my student: "If I had been born in my grandmother's time, . . . I probably would have been racist against gays and lesbians."

What time would that have been, exactly?

Anonymous said...

One wonders what logic or lack of sleep induced such thought!

Daisy said...

Um... Alaska and America are mutually exclusive?

Inside the Philosophy Factory said...

Daisy -- exactly my point.

One of the class readings discussed an old Eskimo practice of infanticide..