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2003 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners Announced
ccnull writes "This year's list of 24 MacArthur Fellows has been released. Each winner of the so-called 'Genius Grant' receives $500,000, no strings attached. 2003's winners include a blacksmith, a biomedical engineer, a computation geometer, a biophysicist, a nurse, and a short story writer 'crafting witty, experimental prose.'"
It's not a grant if there are no strings attached, it's an entitlement.
Private parties should give money to whoever they want w/o idjits like you saying "what about the children......what about Africa......what about the poor"
Give YOUR money to whoever the fuck you want to and stop telling other people how to spend theirs!
I have to argue that most people do not care in the slightest about art
Great. Make sure you delete all those MP3s on your hard drive. Wouldn't want that art to get to you or anything.
Unless of course it's that dreck the labels shovel to the masses. That is *NOT* art, so you can keep it.
While you're at it, what color is your car? If it's not white (cheap paint and reflects most solar heating) then it's not a paint chosen for function. Make sure you only buy white cars in the future. And no radios. Those waste power.
Same goes for your house. No paintings on the wall, all white walls and carpets. Efficiency, not aesthetics!
And, you're not one of those casemodding people are you? That's a waste of resources!
And ultimately, I think the point everyone who DIDN'T READ THE ARTICLE is missing is that this is a PRIVATE foundation giving these grants out. It's their money. If they want to give a grant for a blacksmith to study the expressiveness of metal, it's THEIR MONEY to give. If they wanted to give a grant to study the number of cats that walk by a given house in a year, same deal.
More likely is that the nominators are packed into these schools. If you want to be nominated you now know where to find the nominators.
more like:
those who can but hate kids and don't care about the future of the country but only of themselfs, do
those who can and are selfless people who want to help the youth become the leaders of tomorrow teach.
those who have been teachers (and therefore have the same qualities as above) teach teachers
those who can't teach and are morons, administrate
those who are dick head politicos who want to push the educational system into their little ideological corner and could not give a crap about what is best for the kids, are on the school board.
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