Friday Night Jukebox: Muse
In the past few months, I haven’t been writing nearly as much as I would like. There are a number of reasons for this, but sometimes it just comes down to writer’s block. Recently,...
Daily Archive: February 15, 2013
Ben Smith Tod Kelly Doesn’t Understand How Google Works Know How to Read
UPDATE: Ouch! In a post where I rolled my eyes at someone’s basic research incompetence, I went and totally got my Bens confused. So for the records, I would like to formally apologize to Ben Smith, formally...
How Much Liberty Is Too Much?
Edited add: gCaptain has another great post about the testimony at the Bounty hearing. This passage jumps out: When she wasn’t at the pier – because she didn’t carry passengers for hire – Bounty...
A Catechism of War
Are we at war? Yes. We are at war. Who is our enemy? Al Qaeda is our enemy. Is al Qaeda a nation-state? No, they are not. What is al Qaeda? Experts have described...
Obama’s Rhetoric Continues to Lose Altitude
Doug Henwood summarizes an important decline in the reading level of State of the Union addresses,
Russia Gets One Of These Every Hundred Years Or So
So a meteor struck in the middle of a town in southern Russia yesterday. The Beeb has some pretty cool video. Well, it wasn’t very cool if you were one of the people who...
Teaching Social Norms, Part 3
This is the third in a series of posts where I will explore the interesting phenomenon that is teaching social norms. As an early childhood educator, I am tasked with far more than teaching...
Friday Jukebox: Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman”
There’s too much to say. I’m gonna have to bullet point this: -This is Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman.” It is the greatest song ever recorded. -I know, I know – “Aren’t you the relativist around...
