Good morning.
- Better war games via a humor site, Cracked.com. (HT: The Belmont Club)
- What he said! And since he said it as well if not better than I might, that will do.
- Mere Orthodoxy links and reflects on GodBlogCon.
- Links at Siris.
- Mega Church music, not a cappella choral chant, troparion, kontakion, and hymn it seems.
- Johnny can’t read. Actually more charitably, in the act of blogging and getting out a new post, we don’t always read the posts carefully. Jon Rowe at Positive Liberty it seems misread some statistics. He read it as 1/3 of (American) football players experimented with homosexuality. What the study actually said is 1/3 of football players who: “The 47 men, aged 18-23, were all American Football players who previously played at the high school (secondary school) level but had failed to be picked for their university’s team and were now cheerleaders instead.” Male cheerleaders sexuality seems about as newsworthy as male dancers or professional actors.
- A blog award well merited.
- A grim warrior ready for battle. Cute, too.
- Memory Eternal, at Thirsty.
- On the other side of the world (I think) I saw this movie last night as well. Bumi Dipijak looks at Bella. A very thoughtful film on abortion, repentance, and family life.
- So, now that I’m an “expert”, having read the Bottom Billion, Millard Filmore’s Bathtub notes an economist visiting one of those bottom billion countries and his remarks. I’ll have to revisit that in more depth tonight.
You should attack the headline writers. And it wasn’t just ordinary male cheerleaders. It was male cheerleaders who used to be football players. Not that we should be stereotyping; but if we are, former football playing male cheerleaders aren’t the ones to whom you refer, I’d imagine.
I just reread the passage. Do you realize how hard it is to make the cut for a university’s football team. These former high school football players who couldn’t make the cut I’d imagine are typical high school football players, at least in terms of skill level.
Jon,
Heh. I’ll admit I missed the note that these were football players from H.S. that washed out in college.
But, (the ever present “but”), it’s a leap to wash out of football and turn to cheerleading. That is the typical H.S. football player doesn’t join the cheerleading squad in college. He plays intra-murals, joins a frat, drinks lots of beer, and goes to classes.
I’ll admit that this is just one study and until we see many more, it may be probative, but is not conclusive.