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Re: Supplemental Security Income (SSI) AKA Crazy Check

Max_Reddick — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:22:48 -0000

Interesting. My wife and I were just having a similar discussion this weekend. During both of our careers in education, we have encountered too many parents who use their children to collect extra SSI money by having the children staff as ESE. And the thing is that some of these children are actually intelligent and the capacity to be successful, but because their parents want to use them to get that little extra piece of change, they effectively almost always foreclose on the children's future. It's sad. Really is.

Re: From SIP: I HATE DUDES! — That Gumbo Life

Max_Reddick — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:46:18 -0000

At first I was thinking, what did I do this time? Then, I realized, "WAIT-A-MINUTE! I am not the dick in question!", and then I felt so much better. However, there is an explanation for dickism. That explanation is not an excuse, but just that--a plausible explanation. Someday we'll have that conversation, but it is much too long and detailed to go into in a blog response.

And just so you know, I do empathize with you. I, too, know what it is like to be angry with a dick.

Re: ChocolateOrchid - So glad to see that pubic hair is still “in”. I...

Max_Reddick — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:52:06 -0000

I am glad someone else feels that way. I have been scratching my head about that obsession myself.

Re: Price Vs. Cost: Using eBay to Teach Teens Entrepreneurship

Max_Reddick — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:46:29 -0000

When my oldest son was about sixteen, he complained that he didn't have access to his bank account, and we were still treating him like a child. So, I gave him full access. I even got him an ATM card as he requested.

Well, he began just balling out of control, and within about a month, he had gone through every dime he had saved since he was a child. Finally, broke, disgusted, and thoroughly embarrassed, he admitted just how foolish he had been. That was the best lesson about dealing with money ever.

I'm trying something a bit new, though, in dealing with my youngest son and money.

Re: BougieLand: If you just admit it, is it better in the long run?

Max_Reddick — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:22:56 -0000

I am writing this from an undisclosed location. Miss you though. Be back soon.

Re: BougieLand: If you just admit it, is it better in the long run?

Max_Reddick — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:11:01 -0000

My personal policy for dealing with foolishness I've perpetrated is get it out there and get on with life. The longer you argue and push back, the longer the whole issue lingers. And usually when you just say, "Yes, I did it. Yes, I was wrong." It just throws everyone else off and deflates their whole argument because people are so accustomed to people denying even the most obvious faux pas.

Re: Video Overnight Thread- Interspecies Love Mongering

Max_Reddick — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:37:41 -0000

I just hope that deer doesn't break that kitten's heart!

Re: http://blog.issarae.com/post/15281320499

Max_Reddick — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:52:25 -0000

This is hilarious! Grandma is down for the hood!

Re: NYE Re-Wording of John Lennon’s “Imagine” Prompts CeeLoGate

Max_Reddick — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:22:08 -0000

No harm, no foul. People take themselves much too seriously sometimes. Cee-Lo put himself in a no-win situation, though. If he would have kept the original lyrics, then the church people would have been mad at him. Now he has mostly the weed heads mad at him. But I guess this is better. The weed heads have probably forgotten already.

Re: NYE Re-Wording of John Lennon’s “Imagine” Prompts CeeLoGate

Max_Reddick — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:20:54 -0000

Yeah, the horrible singing was all I noticed.

Re: Sunday Sermon [Who was Jesus]

Max_Reddick — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:47:09 -0000

Nothing to add. Good job Eddie.

Re: In Defense of Rebecca Black: "Friday" Singer Cyberbullied By Grown Men

Max_Reddick — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:09:23 -0000

If you're an adult, and you have time in your day to bully thirteen year olds on the internet, or if this video raises your ire so much that you must take the time and energy to create your own video response, something is terribly wrong.

Re: BougieLand: My minor rant on Jalen vs. Grant: Apology NOT accepted, black

Max_Reddick — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:32:37 -0000

I've been following this one from a distance this week. Now, I am not defening what Rose said, but I do want to make the observation that Rose was very young when he said it. From every indication, he has grown and matured since then, and so has his views. In other words, when he was a child he thought as a child, and so on and so forth.

In the same instance, though, that he thought this way as a youth brings up another point of consideration. Currently,too many of our young people feel this way. I agree with Reads4Pleasure that this narrow definition of being black is synonomous with poverty and privatation is sad indeed. Even further, keeping it real has become synonomous with just outright and abject ignorance.

But perhaps the saddest thing is that these views do not originate, in the main, from outside our community; for the most part, we are their greatest purveyors.

I did not mean to go on this long, but the upshot of the whole argument is this: we need to define who we are for ourselves. Yes, an inordiate number of African Americans live in poverty, but many also are solidly a pert of the middle class, and some have even managed to accumulate a great deal of wealth.

Re: BougieLand: Three things Single Folks need to know about Marriage - guest post from @MaxReddick

Max_Reddick — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:00:51 -0000

Simple. It was the butterflies. Whenever I heard her voice, whenever I thought about her, whenever I was about to see her, I got butterflies in the pit of my stomach.

Re: BougieLand: Three things Single Folks need to know about Marriage - guest post from @MaxReddick

Max_Reddick — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:59:28 -0000

It depends. If it is something small, I address it right that moment. Most of the time, it was just a simple misunderstanding and can be cleared up. If I am angry, however, I usually let her know that am angry, and just wait until the anger subsides. Usually, if I am angry, she is more than like angry as well, and you know the old equation: 1 mad fool + 1 mad fool = a whole bunch of madness.

Re: BougieLand: Three things Single Folks need to know about Marriage - guest post from @MaxReddick

Max_Reddick — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:55:56 -0000

Yeah, every now and then it can fall into a routine and appear just a little stale. But read the post from yesterday; you must be ever vigilant. Do not get to the place where you take the other person for granted, and every now and then do something, try something, go somewhere that you have never been before.

Re: BougieLand: Three things Single Folks need to know about Marriage - guest post from @MaxReddick

Max_Reddick — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:25:43 -0000

A little Al Green, Barry White, Teddie Pendergras, some old Prince, and one of my favorites, The Meters' Just Be My Lady. You have to time the Teddie Pendergras just right, so when he yells, "JUST TAKE IT OFF!, it comes at just the right time.

Re: BougieLand: Three things Single Folks need to know about Marriage - guest post from @MaxReddick

Max_Reddick — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:23:01 -0000

I grandfather always told me that sometimes some people take a little more time to learn lessons than others. In time, the lesson will become plain to him, and I guarantee that at that time, he will be awash with regret!

Re: BougieLand: Is it wrong to let finance ruin romance?

Max_Reddick — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:39:53 -0000

Good question. I think people underestimate just how much money matters affect a relationship, especially marriage. There is enough stress involved without money matters being one of them. But the question then becomes, on what grounds is the relationship built?

I've witnessed relationships built purely on money matters in which one or both of the people in the relationship was attracted to the other because of how much money they made. Then when money troubles arise, the relationship just crumbles.

On the other hand, I've witnessed relationships built on a firm foundation of love and mutual respect in which unforeseen or uncontrollable money issues arise for whatever reason. These relationships can usually weather the storm.

But then again there are those relationships in which one or the other participant is just plain irresponsible. Then it becomes necessary that the irresponsible party make a few changes. But you know it is hard to teach an old dog new trips. At this point it becomes of the utmost importance to decide if you really want to go through this with that person. Is the relationship really worth it?

Re: BougieLand: Is it wrong to only date black (or white) women?

Max_Reddick — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:36:18 -0000

I have no qualms whatsoever about people choosing to date outside their race. I don't even think it's such a big deal when people state that they prefer to date people of a different race exclusively; I do, however, think that it is somewhat problematic.

But I do take exception when someone dates someone of the opposite race, and then reason that they do so by enumerating a long list of negative characteristics of that race, their very own. It is almost as if they have believed and made part of their consciousness every stereotype about themselves ever conceived.

Re: Identifying the object of our outrage: Some notes on the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones

Max_Reddick — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:58:26 -0000

I know. But I did not even realize that that point of view was so prevalent until I took a good look around the internet. Some people have gone too far in blaming the family for this tragedy. I do understand how they could arrive at that position, but in the same instance, I do not understand how they seem to be going out of their way in absolving the police department of any wrong doing.

Re: Whats Hot in the Streetz: People Who Drive Minivans

Max_Reddick — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:55:02 -0000

I wonder if there are any figures available detailing just how much this video boosted the Sienna's sales. It is a pretty good marketing scheme, plus they got all kinds of absolutely free publicity just from this video.

Re: Whats Hot in the Streetz: People Who Drive Minivans

Max_Reddick — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:53:16 -0000

Anytime slang enters the mainstream, I think it is officially time to just let it go.

Re: Identifying the object of our outrage: Some notes on the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones

Max_Reddick — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:47:30 -0000

And you are right. The whole no knock warrant thing is an abomination and should be done away with as soon as humanly possible. The cases abound in which police operating under a no know warrant rushed into the wrong dwelling and some innocent victim ended up dead as a result. There was a case in Atlanta no too long back that involved an elderly woman.

And I linked to that article not to lay blame at the foot of the innocent until proven guilty, but to show that another child died, a child who was shot point blank in the heart, but where is the outrage over this death? It is no less tragic.

Re: Identifying the object of our outrage: Some notes on the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones

Max_Reddick — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:42:23 -0000

I did not mean to insinuate that the family was somehow the blame. I can see where it could be taken that way, but that was not my intent. I would not in any way want to deflect attention or blame away from the police department. They are wholly to blame.