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Pure and simple, the melanin theory is baloney, and trying to pose it as a counter to The Bell Curve is not going to be effective...
...blend of agony and ecstasy, work and play, caution and risk, painful serious learning and exuberant relaxation" offers something like an 18-hole way to enlightenment. Peck doesn't exactly say that if Jesus were to return to earth, he would have a 3 handicap, but wisdom and baloney might be added to his list just after agony and ecstasy. Both qualities are evident in his writings and his personality, though a surprising range of critics clearly feel that what predominates is wisdom, or at least solidly grounded common sense. And if you aren't willing to risk a little...
...been in California too long, and you've gone from a perfectly O.K. doctor to a guy who lies on a couch while somebody puts crystals on him and you actually think it means something, but it's nothing but a lot of hippie-dippy-airy-fairy baloney. New Age Garbage, Aquarian Abracadabra, Karmic Crap. Get out now, Michael, before you start to believe this stuff.' But the thing is, I was having a really interesting time...
...goals. Aaron agreed to brief him, but declared in advance that he rejected the easy assumptions of Clinton's staff members that health insurance could be guaranteed to all merely by targeting "waste, fraud and abuse." Aaron stated that "the savings that some people think can be realized are baloney." Then he learned, Aaron says, why he had been disinvited: "Clinton didn't want to hear that...
...back down if the mountain lets you. Why this is important is not clear, especially to those of us who do it. Once, in a pompous mood, I wrote, "We climb for the same reason that smoke rises and poodles bite doormen: it is our nature." This is baloney, but true baloney. The expert strung out below a featureless overhang knows it, and the ignorant weekenders who get in trouble are, for good or ill, plodding toward some such understanding...