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Swine Flu Perspective
President Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak to be a national emergency . I'm not sure that's all that bad of a measure,...
sursumcorda, 25 October 2009 |
Comic Collectivism?
I know I've been out of the comics loop for a while—having recently had three grandchild-comics available for my...
Thirty Years Ago Today
Thirty years ago today was one of the most difficult and delightful days of my life. To our wonderful firstborn, I wish a...
Like many people, I have mixed feelings about Facebook, finding it simultaneously useful and annoying. But here's a funny thing...
Tales of Ancient Egypt
Tales of Ancient Egypt , by Roger Lancelyn Green (Puffin Books, 2004) King Arthur was my introduction to Roger...
Vicarious Homeschooling - Reading
Our own homeschooling experiences were far shorter than I would have liked, so it has been fun watching other family members in their...
Child Labor
If there's an advantage to Mommy being sick, it's that Grandma got to supervise, i.e. watch, Noah doing his chores. His is not...
Cleaning Up
As a child, I always had trouble cleaning my room. What should have been a 10-minute exercise turned into an all-day project,...
Casting the Net, Vol. 17 - Faith and Reason
How Tim Keller Found Manhattan . Although a church in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) denomination gave us our...
Okay, That Does It. I'm Officially Giving Up.
On the Nobel Prize system, that is. I mean, it's bad enough they don't have anything for mathematicians. When I was in...
Casting the Net, Vol. 16 - Five from The Occasional CEO
If you'd told me I'd be the regular reader of a business blog, I'd have thought you crazy, but Eric Schultz is Chairman of the Board at...
Complying with the FTC Rules
I'm sure there must be a legitimate reason behind the new Federal Trade Commission rules for bloggers , but it looks pretty...
ADVENT and Zork
Thirty years ago we entered the world of adventure gaming. We had graduated by that point, so I believe it was my brother who...
Casting the Net, Vol. 15 - Politics
Learning the lesson of Napoleon and Hitler . Never underestimate Russia. C. S. Lewis observed that mankind tends to...
Translation Tidbit of the Day
My favorite section of the newsletter we get from Wycliffe Bible Translators is where they give some interesting example of the...
Casting the Net, Vol. 14 - Pets, Cultural Understanding,...
First we made pets of our children; now we make children of our pets. The title of Caleb Stegall's Against Pets might make...
Casting the Net, Vol. 13 - This and That
"Any decent society needs to defend itself from armed aggression without becoming a society not worth defending. This is never...
Casting the Net, Vol. 12 - This and That
It's a pretty random collection of tidbits this time. Enjoy them or ignore them as you like. Eat your heart out,...
Ahistorical Fiction, and Why Dan Brown's Books Are So...
As an avid fan of mystery stories, I’m sure I would enjoy The Da Vinci Code , especially since I’m attracted to Robert...
LogYourRun.com
Since I have so many more interesting things to post about that will take too long to write and still get to bed half an hour ago,...
Casting the Net, Vol. 11 - Education
A chance to excel? A school district in Colorado is eliminating both grades and grade levels in a radical attempt to...
Feed It, or Shoot It, but Don't Let it Starve to Death
Many years ago, Porter attended a course taught by Bill Oncken, which added at least two phrases to his vocabulary: "Don't...
Hooray for the Swiss!
You'd think the apprehension of a brazen sex offender would be an unqualified cause for rejoicing, but the Swiss government is already...
Japanese Efficiency
Too much politics lately. Time for something lighter. Here's what looks like a Japanese game show where the...
Memo to the President: Please Don't Kill the Pigs
Until recently, Cairo had a refuse-collection system unlike any you'll find in the United States, but it worked—and might even...