“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Goodbye, Genie
Like most Americans, I was heartbroken to hear Robin Williams died. I grew up on Mork and Mindy, and it still makes me laugh. He’s known for making us laugh, but a great deal of his work had a tinge of heartbreak in it, and often much more than a tinge. But even those […]
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Empty shelf: Funny even though it’s true
*This post contains affiliated links Title: The Weed Agency: A Comic Tale of Federal Bureaucracy Without Limits Author: Jim Geraghty What’s it about: This book is the epitome of fake but accurate. It’s the non-factual, true story of an imaginary federal agency that tells the real history of government corruption, incompetence, and general tomfoolery. Geraghty […]
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On hearing the news of the day
My mind automatically goes to this scripture: Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and […]
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Learning from history
Today is the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki; three days ago marked the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. For a lot of people, this is the most horrific event in world history. I understand the impulse– it is horrific that we now harness such massive killing power. It may be because I would […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Enjoying Minnesota
*Notice: This post has nothing to do with fine arts. I guess I didn’t need to keep the “Fine Arts Friday” tag, but I am a creature of habit. We’re visiting MTG’s family in rural Minnesota. I was really looking forward to doing some sky watching. This weekend brings us another supermoon and the Perseids meteor […]
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Meh
Minnesota makes me dull. This is lively, even though the music makes me sleepy. For the time being, Americans will continue to have to choose between buying food for their family or buying health insurance they can’t afford that hardly covers the costs of the drugs they can’t buy. cheap viagra without prescription is a […]
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Empty Shelf: We’re not dead yet(?)
This post contains affiliated links. Title: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Author: Neil Postman What’s it about: See above cartoon. Actually, it’s really about how the changing technology of information transmission has changed how we learn, think, and live. Or as Postman put it, “I will try to demonstrate […]
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Terrible Tuesday: O dark thirty
Today we’re driving 966 miles. The plan is to be on the road at 4 am, so I’m scheduling believing that will happen. That may be overly optimistic. “Are we there yet” links! Can “luck” be learned? “Life is 10 percent what you make and 90 percent how you take it.” Irving Berlin Related(?): Nobody […]
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Everybody loves a sale!
Except communists, I guess. But since I probably don’t have a lot of communists reading this blog, it doesn’t matter. Non-communist homeschoolers really love sales, and Compass Classroom has a huge sale this week only–30 to 50 percent off. This is the company that puts out Visual Latin. We love this program, and I’ve reviewed […]
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Careless Lives
If Christianity is true why are not all Christians obviously nicer than all non-Christians? What lies behind that question is partly something very reasonable and partly something that is not reasonable at all. The reasonable part is this. If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions–if he continues to be just […]
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