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December 30, 2009
What Won't They Try Next?
I Have an Alternate Plan
Berkeley High May Cut Out Science Labs
The proposal would trade labs seen as benefiting white students for resources to help struggling students."Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students."
www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/berkeley-high-may-cut-out-science-labs/Content
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The problem in Berkeley is that there is ...
Berkeley High May Cut Out Science Labs
The proposal would trade labs seen as benefiting white students for resources to help struggling students."Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students."
www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/berkeley-high-may-cut-out-science-labs/Content
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The problem in Berkeley is that there is ...
Abbott and Costello Meet the Middle Ages
A Sidenote
An alert reader notes this:
I found this quote
The medieval church did not insist on what was termed h...
An alert reader notes this:
I found this quote
“[God:] is the author of all things, evil excepted. But the natures with which He endowed His creatures accomplish a whole scheme of operations, and these too turn to His glory since it is He who created these very natures.”very interesting: did they not read Isaiah 45:7, when he said "I form the light and create the darkness; I make peace and create evil; I am the LORD who does this"?
The medieval church did not insist on what was termed h...
December 29, 2009
Bride of the Middle Ages
Return of the Age of Unreason - Part II
This is a continuation of this: m-francis.livejournal.com/
In this part, we will take up two questions rather than pick over this or that misconception in Mr. Walker's essay. Instead, we will make the positive case. And because the case is medieval and I just plain feel like it, I will cast them in the form of the medieval Question genre. The format runs as follows:
The Question to be answered; sometimes broken down into separate articles. The...
This is a continuation of this: m-francis.livejournal.com/
In this part, we will take up two questions rather than pick over this or that misconception in Mr. Walker's essay. Instead, we will make the positive case. And because the case is medieval and I just plain feel like it, I will cast them in the form of the medieval Question genre. The format runs as follows:
The Question to be answered; sometimes broken down into separate articles. The...
December 27, 2009
Son of the Middle Ages
Return of the Age of Unreason - Part I
Returning from a trip one day and noodling in re medieval science led me to an astonishing web-essay by someone calling himself Jim Walker on a religious belief site called Nobeliefs.com for Freethinkers.
Being trip-weary and in a curmudgeonly mood, I commented on the irony of someone denouncing religious belief while believing in so many myths and legends of his own at The Age of Unreason: or Pfui
Now, thanks to the Galileo Effect -- there is always someo...
Returning from a trip one day and noodling in re medieval science led me to an astonishing web-essay by someone calling himself Jim Walker on a religious belief site called Nobeliefs.com for Freethinkers.
Being trip-weary and in a curmudgeonly mood, I commented on the irony of someone denouncing religious belief while believing in so many myths and legends of his own at The Age of Unreason: or Pfui
Now, thanks to the Galileo Effect -- there is always someo...
December 25, 2009
Cha-cha-cha
Belly Dancing at Phoenicia
My brother took this picture. That's another brother on the right.
My brother took this picture. That's another brother on the right.
December 24, 2009
Enrich Your Vocabulary!
On the Unprefixable, or
If It Ain't Yet Broke, Don't Prefix It
L. Sprague deCamp once wrote a story called "The Hibited Man" in which he played with the idea that there is a word for 'inhibited' and 'uninhibited' but what meaning would the root word have? Hibited? How does exhibited fit into this continuum?
There are other words that seem to exist only in their prefixtual form or only with certain prefixes.
This being Christmas season, one such word is "redeem." What does it mean to be "de...
If It Ain't Yet Broke, Don't Prefix It
L. Sprague deCamp once wrote a story called "The Hibited Man" in which he played with the idea that there is a word for 'inhibited' and 'uninhibited' but what meaning would the root word have? Hibited? How does exhibited fit into this continuum?
There are other words that seem to exist only in their prefixtual form or only with certain prefixes.
This being Christmas season, one such word is "redeem." What does it mean to be "de...
December 22, 2009
Statistics for the Day
Stats on Parade
The Gallup Poll published the following statistics which show the percentage of Catholics in a sample taken at ten-year increments in the -5 year of each decade who claimed to have attended mass in that particular week previous to the poll. This is thought to estimate something called "regular church attendance," although it really only tracks attendance in particular weeks. Whether those weeks are typical or not may depend on whether there was a big snowstorm or that the per...
The Gallup Poll published the following statistics which show the percentage of Catholics in a sample taken at ten-year increments in the -5 year of each decade who claimed to have attended mass in that particular week previous to the poll. This is thought to estimate something called "regular church attendance," although it really only tracks attendance in particular weeks. Whether those weeks are typical or not may depend on whether there was a big snowstorm or that the per...
December 20, 2009
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Global Warming
Global warming has caused the frozen waters of the Firmament to melt and fall as snow on the Riviera on 19 December
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Sat Dec 19, 8:19 AM ET. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
And who was the light bulb who decided to hold the big global warming conference in Scandinavia at the start of winter? That was like asking for the Gore Effect to manifest itself.
Global warming has caused the frozen waters of the Firmament to melt and fall as snow on the Riviera on 19 December
. [image error]
Sat Dec 19, 8:19 AM ET. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
And who was the light bulb who decided to hold the big global warming conference in Scandinavia at the start of winter? That was like asking for the Gore Effect to manifest itself.
Flynncon
A Gathering of the Clan
Yesterday, Bro Kevin flew in from the Mile High City, along with his three young 'uns, the youngest of which is now 21. Margie went down to the airport to pick them up and drove them to Pere's house, where they are all dossing for the weekend. Cousin Jimmy came over from next door and hung for a while. When school let out, Bro Sèan drove up. That evening, the three brothers, together with Kevin's three offspring and my daughter went to dinner at a new Lebanese res...
Yesterday, Bro Kevin flew in from the Mile High City, along with his three young 'uns, the youngest of which is now 21. Margie went down to the airport to pick them up and drove them to Pere's house, where they are all dossing for the weekend. Cousin Jimmy came over from next door and hung for a while. When school let out, Bro Sèan drove up. That evening, the three brothers, together with Kevin's three offspring and my daughter went to dinner at a new Lebanese res...
December 17, 2009
The TOF Spot
Another blog.
I have set up another blog called The TOF Spot at tofspot.blogspot.com/
Blogspot seems to have some nice features that make it easy to use. I can put pictures up of various book covers. I've been experimenting the past few days.
For now, I am simply copying the same posts in both places. We'll see how it works out. So far, no one knows about the site.
I have set up another blog called The TOF Spot at tofspot.blogspot.com/
Blogspot seems to have some nice features that make it easy to use. I can put pictures up of various book covers. I've been experimenting the past few days.
For now, I am simply copying the same posts in both places. We'll see how it works out. So far, no one knows about the site.
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