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Good? Or Merely "As Good As"?

My first reaction to the good news that girls are now doing as well as boys in mathematics , at least through high school, was to...

Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned...

John C. Wright's post about his discussion with a utopian communist awakened memories of my own encounters with people who look back...

Why Teach Logic and Argumentation?

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek...to be understood, as to understand. —St. Francis I can't resist...

Planet Narnia!

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis , by Michael Ward (Oxford University Press, 2008) It is hard...

Never Underestimate the Power of Pre-Natal...

A friend of ours has four children.  They're all still less than eight years old, and have yet many years to develop their tastes...

Just for Fun

My to-do list is too long for me to indulge much in long stories or philosophical musings, so today you get just plain fun. ...

Birthdays

We celebrated my birthday with a three-way phone call (Florida/Pittsburgh/Basel), good wishes from family and friends, and a dinner at...

Language Learning, Language Prejudice

For a monolingual person, I have an inordinate love of languages.  Not only is multi-lingualism increasingly important in today's...

"Hannah Montana"

I shouldn't be surprised when what is said in comic strips mirrors opinions expressed by essayists in more serious venues.  After...

Blowing Hot and Cold Out of the Same Mouth

Mike Thomas , an Orlando Sentinel columnist, has had a special place in our hearts ever since he interviewed Heather for a magazine...

"It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House"

[Insert whistling here] Front entrance lights and tiles ...

Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The...

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days is a simply made but powerful German film (with English subtitles) about a young woman arrested for...

Life, Choice, and The Man

I don't recall the era of the 1960s with fondness; it wasn't all bad, but it was a messy, unkind time that accelerated our culture's...

Supreme Court Redux

In considering the Supreme Court's nullification of Louisiana's law that allows a death sentence for one convicted of raping a child,...

Building on Strengths

As I wrote earlier , one important idea I took from Marcus Buckingham's The One Thing You Need to Know is the value of expending more...

The Supreme Court v. The People of Louisiana

In an earlier post on the Lisbon Treaty , I stated [I]n the U.S. we have seen state laws gradually subsumed more and...

More on Humor

The role of joking in the way we deal with one another is a concern of mine, as I've said before .  Thanks to Groshlink I've...

When Nerds Don't Want to Do Something

Scott Adams strikes again, with a definitely nerdy variation on this popular saying:

Why So Many Posts?

You may have noticed I've been posting a lot recently.  At one point I decided to try to write a post a day for the month of...

Confessions of a Medical Heretic

Confessions of a Medical  Heretic , by Robert S. Mendelsohn, M. D. (McGraw-Hill, 1979) A quick review of this so I can get...

Not Your Ordinary Student Recital

I love student recitals.  Our kids attended the Suzuki Music Institute of Central Florida for nearly 10 years, so I think I've...

Back to Salem

We throw the term "witch hunt" around pretty loosely, but when it comes to child abuse accusations, apparently it's more accurate than...

I Am Really Tired of the Double Standard

A local man makes his living selling political propaganda, including campaign buttons.  Like a mercenary soldier, he plays all...

How Would Martha Stewart Have Handled This?

I've had some adventures with palmetto bugs , but I'll take them over scorpions any day.  Check out "Et tu?" s...

Firefox 3.0

Thanks to Andy B.'s suggestion, I just installed the latest version of Firefox .  No verdict on it as yet—it was an easy...

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