I came to this rather circuitously. First a fellow math teacher tweeted a link to the YouTube video “Should Math be Taught in Our Schools?†It’s tongue-in-cheek—I say this because not everyone is sure it’s a joke—but it is disturbingly similar to the YouTube video it satirizes, reporting Miss USA contestents’ thoughts on whether evolution […]
Eileene borrowed a documentary video on pornography, subtitled “the Secret History of Civilization.†She’s cautioned me that the last couple episodes are pretty dull, but the first two, and especially the first, have been informative and hilarious. It begins with a discussion of the sexually explicit art of Pompeii, and especially on its discovery by […]
Mike Birbiglia tells a very funny story about his encounter with a bear. The tale meanders a bit, drifting at one point to a claim that, if Birbiglia were a fish, he’d want to leap from the water too, and grow arms and become human, “which is what happened, over time.†To which he adds, […]
Overheard a woman tonight explaining her approach to evangelism. I won’t be able to quote her verbatim, but this is pretty close: “When you’re ready. I don’t try to make someone believe; I can’t do that. But when the time comes, when they need God and they’re ready for the Message, it will be there […]
Overheard a woman tonight explaining her approach to evangelism. I won’t be able to quote her verbatim, but this is pretty close: “When you’re ready. I don’t try to make someone believe; I can’t do that. But when the time comes, when they need God and they’re ready for the Message, it will be there […]
We got the news this morning that Osama bin Laden was killed sometime last night in an assault on his compound in Pakistan. President Obama would like you to think of this as a watershed in the war on terror: a great achievement that Bush bungled, a severe blow to al Qaeda, maybe even the […]
We attended Jen’s Passover Seder last night. This was our third or fourth year, so the rituals are becoming familiar by now, though I’m sure we’ll never master the songs. (Foreign words I can handle, but they don’t rhyme, they don’t scan, and often they repeat without prior indication.) One of the rituals is openly […]