What Are You Hearing? February 28, 2007
Posted by SBG on Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 at 4:43 am
Your articles for today:
CarterHayes writes: This morning I came across a pretty interesting essay on the position of skyscrapers in the post-9/11 world, and particularly the boom of construction in the Middle East and China. And interesting read for anyone with an interest in architecture. The mile-tall Frank Lloyd Wright building mentioned throughout is The Illinois.
Algonad writes: Now they say to not tell your children they're special [or they'll become narcissistic]. There's just no easy answer for parents I guess.
ubelmann writes: [From USS Mariner, a great site] When people point to some stats-based arguments and say that they are some pie-in-the-sky BS that no Baseball Man would believe, redirect them to Manny Acta. He might not go by everything the numbers say, but he's clearly not ignoring the numbers, either.
CarterHayes writes: Late-breaking, but hopefully it makes it in time for tomorrow: The Baseball Card Blog and The Tony Oliva Story
Nick N. writes: Wrote an article on our blog today that your readers might find amusing. I'd be interested to hear who their most hated players on opposing AL teams are. Update: Link is fixed.
SBG writes: Last night was the first time in franchise history that the Wolves shot below 30% in a game a span of 1418 games. The record? Milwaukee has never shot below 30% in their 39 year history -- 3142 games.
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I have "The Tony Oliva Story" in my collection (first year we started buying cards, from what I remember). I think that Pedro/Tony thing turned out not to be true, though. Think it's covered at Snopes?
The link to Nick & Nick's blog goes to a blank page. Here's the URL.
http://twinsfanatnicks.blogspot.com/
I fixed the link (was missing the last character, drat) in the article so that it takes you right to the article along with the comments.
I know from past experience, Brian Downing was a game-wrecker for me when I lived in LA. Well, come to think of it, maybe it was Ron Davis' pitches to Brian Downing that was the root cause.
So, did the Wolves win?
Six hours til baseball, hyeah!
Milwaukee rules!
Now they say to not tell your children they’re special [or they’ll become narcissistic].
That seems rather questionable. Is it really "narcissistic" to say, "I think I am a special person" or "I can live my life any way I want to"? Who doesn't want young people to think that about themselves? What about the indications that there may be an upswing in charitable or civic work amongst young people today?
And even if young people really are narcissists because they think they're special and believe it's important to make a lot of money, exactly how would that be linked to "permissiveness" and the "self-esteem movement"? Could young people learn to place a high priority on wealth from other social influences? Did nobody ever want to become rich before the 1980s?
It sounds like some researchers have a certain axe to grind.