“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Musings on the status of humanity
This post contains affiliated links. The nudge rant yesterday has had me contemplating the current status of autonomy and self-determination. Frankly, it’s surprising how many people aren’t exercised about the government doing (more) social engineering. Government bureaucrats shaping our actions and values based on their own arbitrary standards? Yawn. Have the predictions of C.S. Lewis […]
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Building better people
Warning: I’ve got my ranting pants on. The White House is working with a dozen different federal agencies to form “nudge squads” of “Behavioral Insights Teams” to “nudge” Americans into “correct” ways of living. From the Behavioral Insights Team document: “The federal government is currently creating a new team that will help build federal capacity […]
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Fine Arts Friday: Hymns
The mention of hymns often gets a lot of backlash. “Hymn singing is old fashioned, passe, and totally without value. Get with the 21st century!” First, those people can get off my lawns. Second: Shakespeare, Mozart, Renoir, Pope, Homer, Beethoven, Michelangelo, Austen, Virgil, da Vinci. Need I go on? We don’t discard art from the […]
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Get ready for the big show
This weekend is one of the biggest events of the amateur astronomers year as the Perseid Meteor Shower peaks. We’re waking our kids up at 4 am Monday morning so they can see it. They are so excited. I’ve posted on resources we use for our stargazing before, and this post is very informative with […]
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Cute posting
Today has been a busy, busy day because of a thing I can’t yet talk about. It’s also about a hundred bajillion degrees, which makes thinking — ergo blogging — difficult. Yes, I do put some thought into this blog. Anyway, I can’t think of anything better than this adorableness I saw this morning. You […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Lego day!
The first Tuesday of every month the Lego store has a free mini-build. This month, it’s a flamingo! Buildable links! Here’s an archive of the instructions for some of the recent mini-builds. A commencement speech by George Saunder’s has been making the rounds, but if you haven’t read it yet, you really ought to take […]
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Doctor Who is that guy?
So the new Doctor is Peter Capaldi, which means nothing to me, but hey! He looks capable. Here’s the introduction and a brief interview from the big announcement spectacular. I re-watched “The Fires of Pompeii” in which he appeared to get a feel for him. Karen Gillan, AKA Amy Pond, also appeared in that episode […]
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The meaning of manhood
No doubt you’ve heard the story of the 19-year-old marine who dropped behind in a race to run with a nine-year-old boy who became separated from his group*. When faced with his growing crowd of admires, Lance Corporal Myles Kerr tweeted, “I was just doing what any man would do, but thank you!” But the […]
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All history is biography
(This post contains affiliated links.) We just finished Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham — an excellent book and highly recommended — and my appetite was whetted. I had never heard of Nathaniel Bowditch in my American history studies. While I’m no history scholar, I’m better read than the average bear. If the fictionalized […]
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Fine Arts Friday: sing and dance!
We’re still off the Ambleside schedule since they break for July and August, so we’re picking up some songs we missed. This month, we’re adding some folk dance to our folk song. The song is “Mairi’s Wedding” (or “Marie’s Wedding”), and it’s a Scottish tune not even a hundred years old. John Bannerman wrote it for […]
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