Well, school has started again. I’ve got two online classes this semester in addition to my “on campus” classes. One of the things I find truly fascinating about the online class experience is that the instructors insist on trying to develop something akin to a sense of community for each class. Every semester, every class, [...]
Also tagged Personal, pointless gesturesOne of the frustrating things about blogging is that I read dozens of blog posts a day, and invariably just about the time I’m ready to write something, I find that someone else has expressed pretty much what I wanted to say much more eloquently. To wit, Kevin at The Smallest Minority on New Year’s [...]
Also tagged qotdThree posts I’ve been meaning to write about from guys who are more eloquent and coherent than I am: The ultimate “you didn’t build that” commentary from Iowahawk: Readings from the Book of Barack Borepatch has an explanation of why the “you didn’t build that” comment was not a “taken out of context” moment and [...]
Also tagged Economics, Guns, humorBorepatch has links to two cool videos; one on English pronunciation from Shakespeare’s day (some fascinating stuff about puns and plays on words that aren’t recognizable as such in modern English, but are in what they refer to as OP – original pronunciation), and a second which is a humorous, ten minute history of the [...]
Also taggedFrom MArooned, in a comment on a story about the consequences of Los Angeles County handing out badges to politicians: Nice. Real nice. For some bizarre reason, the police decided to hand out badges to politicians. Why? I don’t know; maybe they ran out of chainsaws to give to toddlers… If you don’t read Jay [...]
Also tagged Corrections, qotdThomas Sowell had a lovely little article on definitions of words we are going to hear a lot in the run-up to the elections this fall. For example, he discusses the word “fair”. One of the most versatile terms in the political vocabulary is “fairness.” It has been used over a vast range of issues, [...]
Also tagged PoliticsFrom a rather nice piece by LegIron: I don’t give a cod’s arse what the neighbours earn and what they think of me is their problem – although in certain cases I admit I have enhanced their problem deliberately to keep them away. I resemble that remark…
Also tagged PersonalI love little snippets of brilliance. Hot Air has a post on Rob Reiner’s recent appearance on the Bill Maher show in which he apparently likened the Tea Party movement to Nazism. From the comments on that post: Nothing says National Socialism like a bunch of limited government, anti-central authoritarian activists who despise nationalization and [...]
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