Kate Beckinsale Does Squat

Kate Beckinsale has been pretty busy as she closes in on 40. She has 3 movies in the can. One is a remake of "Total Recall". Phil Dick was ahead of his time in some ways, but in a lot more was utterly of his time. One of these was the sexist violent world we'd lived in since approximately forever.

It seems that, very quietly, we've become a much less violent country:

Number of Students Struck Each Year in U.S. Public Schools


YEAR # WHITE % # BLACK % TOT. KIDS HIT %
1976 992,675 65 447,314 29 1,521,896 3.5
1978 940,467 65 411,271 29 1,438,317 3.4
1980 901,032 64 403,386 29 1,408,303 3.4
1982 no statistical projection was made this year
1984 852,427 64 374,315 28 1,332,317 3.3
1986 659,224 60 345,411 31 1,099,731 2.7
1988 549,572 61 255,296 28 898,370 2.2
1990 346,488 56 208,543 34 613,760 1.5
1992 295,050 53 215,684 39 555,531 1.3
1994 256,363 54 182,394 39 470,683 1.1
1997 241,406 53 178,114 39 457,754 1.0
1998 199,572 55 135,523 37 365,058 0.8
2000 181,689 53 132,065 39 342,038 0.7
2003 159,446 53 115,819 38 301,016 0.6
2004 143,002 53 104,627 38 272,028 0.57
2006 119,339 53 79,613 36 223,190 0.46


Wich may have someting to do with why violent crime is down 60% since 1990.
Not sure how this all will play out, but maybe Kate & Barbie have something to teach us.




Nope. I got nothing.