Richard Cohen at the Washington Post wrote an interesting column today titled “Words Heard Differently”. He starts by riffing off George Bernard Shaw’s observation that The USA and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language. Today, it’s white Americans and African Americans who are suffering that fate. How true [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Separated by a Common Language
Posted in race matters, tagged life, race on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Expelled” Exposed
Posted in culture, tagged "Intelligent Design", creationism, dishonesty, entertainment, evolution, movies, science on April 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The National Center for Science Education has put together a website to respond to the new pro-Intelligent Design movie “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”. It is called Expelled Exposed. I have to say that red flags were raised for me when I heard a podcast about the movie based on this premise:
Have you [...]
10 year old boys are right: word problems are evil!
Posted in education, homeschooling, tagged education, homeschooling, math on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A couple of years ago, I stopped trying to get my older son to do word problems. He just didn’t get them. Plus, they often required really convoluted thinking to figure out. I decided that once he knew algebra and knew how to create equations, we’d give them another try. Now [...]
What’s dumber than a gorilla with a bunch of bananas?
Posted in education, tagged education, kids, zero brains on April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A school administrator, of course! I think they perform lobotomies on students in school administration programs. A school outside of Chicago suspended 11 students for taking part in a senior prank where a kid dressed like a gorilla chased 10 classmates dressed like bananas through the halls. From the story:
Senior Andrew Leinonen, [...]
Rebecca’s Word of Wisdom for the Day
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Getting what you want and doing what you want are two different, often mutually exclusive things.” – Me
Am I turning into a liberal?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
As people who read this blog regularly know, I identify myself as conservative. This is because I hold traditional social views, I don’t trust our government to be able to do much of anything right, I believe that culture and individuals are more important and powerful than anything the government can do, I tend [...]
Global citizens of the US of A
Posted in current events, politics, tagged current events, enviornment, food, global issues, politics on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of days ago, I blogged about the food riots around the world and what our response to these problems ought to be as comfortable, well of first world citizens. I mentioned how difficulty it is for us to do the right things because we aren’t being forced to:
The problem we have is [...]
Our Disgusting Government in Action
Posted in politics, tagged congress, employment law, idiots, morons, politicians, politics, supreme court on April 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Perhaps you heard about a recent Supreme Court action on employment discrimination law. In a case of clear cut pay discrimination, Goodyear Tire Co. was able to get out of being held responsible for their discrimination against women because the woman who filed the suit did not file the suit within 180 days of the [...]
Republicans Could Do a Lot Worse Part II
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John McCain has asked the North Carolina Republican Party not to run an ad which features a clip of Barack Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Wright making incendiary comments and the words “He’s just too extreme for North Carolina”. The North Carolina Republican Party is apparently going to run the ad anyways, but Sen. McCain has [...]
