I was out today and every place I went was playing Michael Jackson. Even Small Dog Electronics (an Apple store in So. Burlingon, VT). And Barnes and Noble Booksellers was playing some instrumental version of “Smooth Criminal” with a violin. It was surreal.
I tried to find the violin thing on You Tube. I found this [...]
This is a little old, but I thought it was interesting. A teacher challenged her homeroom students to spend a week without their electronic devices and journal about it with good old fashioned pen and paper.
It’s amazing how accustomed to the constant stream of electronic media kids are these days.
“I can’t stand it,” he wrote [...]
Who would have thought that it would be the same-sex marriage proponents that would be the ones to make me rethink my tacit approval of legalizing the practice?
I just have to say, first, I hate this issue. I wish it would just go away – and it would, if the left didn’t want to keep [...]
Same-sex marriage is the hot topic in Vermont this week. The legislature held a hearing on the issue and a bill was passed unanimously in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The full senate votes on Monday.
I woke up thinking about a post on this topic, but life called me away from the blog today. As it [...]
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I predict President Obama’s approval rating will take a serious hit when people tune in to American Idol Tuesday only to find the president giving another TelePrompter reading speech. I thought he was supposedly in touch with the American people.
Hey, maybe Fox will let us call in with our votes at the end of the [...]
Great. Infinite monkey theorem is now racist.
Is there anything we can say anymore?
Hope and change in Obama’s post-racial America!
I wonder what will happen to our cultural literacy with all of these banned phrases. I once saw someone taken to task on a blog over the phrase, “beyond the pale.” As in, it’s racist. I kid [...]
Big Hollywood, the blog, that is.
Andrew Leigh notes:
Does anybody else find it supremely ironic that Ben Stein made a documentary about academia’s intolerance toward those who question evolutionary theory — and then a university effectively rescinded an invitation to speak? Seems to me that nothing in Ben Stein’s Expelled is more compelling evidence of the [...]
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This is the funniest thing I have seen in a while. Both men had me laughing out loud – both times I watched it.
Crafting is my bliss. Besides politics, it is my favorite thing in life. But it’s better than politics because it’s useful and doesn’t make you want to slap people and call them bad names.
When the political blogosphere starts to drive me mad, I escape to the “crafting” folder in my feed reader for solace.
But these [...]
“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.” – Barack Obama
The day is finally here. The day we have been reading about on bumper stickers for years. 01.20.09
I have been trying to look past my own disagreements with the people who will be running [...]
