tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post8762603606414141577..comments2024-01-02T10:55:10.607-06:00Comments on Angry Astronomer: "Book It" faces critisizmsJon Voiseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11550625188837528980noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-47064563655706717282011-05-10T18:24:29.610-05:002011-05-10T18:24:29.610-05:00Heck yeah! My elementary school did the pizza hut...Heck yeah! My elementary school did the pizza hut thing. It was awesome.<br><br>You bet your sweet ass I got some pizza hut.<br><br>But Pizza Hut has really gone downhill since then. Sad.Aerikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06757043033204620563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-26981624953767911092007-03-03T23:02:00.000-06:002007-03-03T23:02:00.000-06:00Book It, which reaches about 22 million children a...<I>Book It, which reaches about 22 million children a year, "epitomizes everything that's wrong with corporate-sponsored programs in school," said Susan Linn, a Harvard psychologist and co-founder of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.</I><BR/><BR/>I see that Linn has no ideological bias here. She is basing these claims purely on reasonable conclusions drawn from carefully collected data, I'm sure.<BR/><BR/>Gag.<BR/><BR/>If this was a program done by an unremarkable local pizza place, she would have no problem with it, I'm sure. This just shows how completely irrelevant the straw man of "pizza causes obesity" really is. This woman is either so deluded that she has fooled herself into thinking that this is a reasonable argument, or she is simply manipulating the media into spreading her ideology. It's difficult to say, although I suspect it's a bit of both.nullabilityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09117026880924870913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25327006.post-55935850881306160992007-03-03T12:53:00.000-06:002007-03-03T12:53:00.000-06:00Heck yeah! My elementary school did the pizza hut...Heck yeah! My elementary school did the pizza hut thing. It was awesome.<BR/><BR/>You bet your sweet ass I got some pizza hut.<BR/><BR/>But Pizza Hut has really gone downhill since then. Sad.Aerikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06757043033204620563noreply@blogger.com