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We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
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- Allen
Monthly Archives: June 2004
A Strong Student-Salmon Bond?
I think this is a pretty cool program, but I had to laugh at several statements. For background, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USES) supports a program known as Adopt-a-Salmon Family. Classrooms purchase the aquarium, get the salmon eggs … Continue reading
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The Unstated Sentence
VodkaPundit deconstructs a Saudi cleric’s recent pronouncement that killing non-Muslims is bad. Read Three Out of Four? for his take on the original article, Attacking the west a sin, say Saudi clerics. Read again the Guardian’s headline and then read … Continue reading
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rimePay umberNay Ncryptioneay Rokenbay
According to the BBC, someone has claimed to have proven Rienmann’s Hypothesis — dealing with out prime numbers are distributed among other non-prime numbers. Read Prime Number Mystery for the Samablog entry and Greatest maths problem ‘solved’ for the BBC … Continue reading
Religious Crackdown In England
Read Another blow for Religious Freedom to learn about a crackdown on Muslims in England. The tale is shocking… 12 June 2004 — One of the imams of the Grand Mosque in Makkah led prayers for inter-faith peace and harmony … Continue reading
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Hooray for The University of the Cultural Narrative That In No Way Denigrates, Demeans or Otherwise Castigates Other, Equally Valid Cultural Narratives Dodos!
Recently read in This is True (of which I highly suggest the Premium Edition) that the University of the Immaculate Word (a Catholic University) has changed its mascot from “The Crusaders” to “The Cardinals”. Why? Because the image of the … Continue reading
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Life > Blog
Currently professional and personal life are swamping me, so blogging has been light lately. I’ve got lots of ‘draft’ posts and may have to do a link dump (shudder) to catch up. My son recently got back from church camp … Continue reading
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Life > Blog
Currently professional and personal life are swamping me, so blogging has been light lately. I’ve got lots of ‘draft’ posts and may have to do a link dump (shudder) to catch up. My son recently got back from church camp … Continue reading
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The Optimistic Party
Picked this up from OpinionJournal’s Best of the Web. James Taranto quotes the following: Writing in Singapore’s Straits Times, Janadas Devan argues that optimism in this sense was crucial to the transformation Reagan wrought in American politics: Why do Republicans … Continue reading
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Official Troll/Spam Comment Policy
I’ve been getting some spam comments every now and then and been using IP banning to disallow them from commenting in the future. While this works for a small blog like mine, I look forward to TypePad having registration for … Continue reading
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Where Does Editing End…
And editorializing begin? Read New England Republican: Tom Brokaw Interviews President Bush to see how the editors at NBC may have “editorialized” an interview to fit their world view. Like NERepublican, I don’t little problem with entire question/answer sessions cut … Continue reading
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