I may have already posted this comic and I am afraid I cannot remember where I found it, but it is worth sharing again. (I think it is from the New Yorker.) I post it not simply because I was cleaning up my Mac’s desktop in order to avoid writing […]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
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Wired’s Geek Dad has a Top 10 list that I have often thought about, “Top 10 Bad Messages From Good Movies.” I actually don’t agree with everything on his list, but his #2 is one that I have often asserted, albeit from a slightly different angle. (His take is below.) […]
This is a great video and a great concept (although I would bet folks would get annoyed after a few days of this during rush hour). HT: @liturgy
No, it is not illegal, that is the problem. As Australia apologizes today for its part in receiving up to 150,000 children from Britain, children who were “taken from single mothers and impoverished families in Britain,” as migrant workers Britain is doing it again. Similar practices continue to exist in […]
Using the Mail.app as my news reader I occasionally force a refresh. I just loved the idea that I could update “Dr Jim West” so easily. (I wonder if I can update myself? Worth a try; the kids would appreciate it.)
This past week I posted a few cartoons, cards, and other amusing bits that I thought my readers would appreciate. And it seems that many of you did! So much so that you re-blogged the items and I am glad that you did since that helps others learn of my […]
Tonight I was at a campus function where the guest speaker, seeking to motivate the students, said a remarkable thing. We are the only creatures that God created who are restless, we are the only creatures who have ambition. …It is part of our having been made in the image […]
The full quote, from The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton, is Then we [two men having just met] had talked for about an hour about politics and God; for men always talk about the most important things to total strangers. It is because in the total stranger we […]
A colleague of mine each week sends me the Weekly Standard’s “Parody.” For those who are not familiar with TWS it is a very conservative magazine, edited by Bill Kristol. This week the feature is “Not a Parody” and I think is pretty fair. They begin with a quote from […]
I was originally going to link to this article and simply point out how ridiculous it was to suggest that Targum to Chronicles was from the sixth century BCE. Then I started reading more carefully the full article (the “targum” reference came up in a Google alert, hence I knew […]