Open Thread

Lech, that just reinforces my surprise that your father would assume you would get along better with corporate types. Seems to me you would get along better with people living off the land, practicing trades, entrepreuners, etc. You said “…but I would probably…hang out with people who are more like me if I did well in school.” Despite the fact that you can be very successful in what you do, in many ways, you don’t have the mentality of a Wall Street lawyer, which, in general, is probably a very good thing.

Honor Killing Story from Texas:

two teenage girls killed by father
for dating.

http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/08/06/honor-killing-dad-secretly-taped-girls/

Stoned for Adultery Story from Afghanistan:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38724568/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

Biff, I personally prefer manual labor over white collar work. Unfortunately we live in a society where laboreres are routinely assumed to be unfit for “better” white collar work and for the most part people who are capable of doing so enter fields like medicine, banking, engineering, management, law, etc. I often think about going back to logging or running a sawmill. I actually made an attempt to do this earlier this year but didn’t get spousal approval.