This is such a marvelous thing! African waterwheel Kids run in a circle and push a merry-go-round faster and faster. Those who are seated on the ride, get dizzy from the speed…laughing and giddy from the force of gravity. These…
Big Difference Between Science and Politics/Religion
In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do…
Sexual Violence Okay, Losing Games Isn’t
Coaches who lose too many games get fired. Coaches who justify abuse, maltreatment, and violence against women apparently get paid administrative leave. Background: University asks police to look into alleged rape
TGIF
I’m so slow to get moving today! I’m not sure why, but I do hurt all over. So I’m not going to push myself to really do much. The house NEEDS my attention, but I need to let it go.…
Friday Morning Attacks of Randomness
For giggles: The Yarn Diet And good news here in Georgia: Gay Marriage Amendment Rejected It would seem that I’m not alone in my disgust at the work produced by my classmates: What The ?!? Quote from one of the…
More Whinging About School
I managed to post an assignment on time! Yay! This means that I’m truly caught up on the world lit class. I do still need to finish actually reading the Aeneid, which I just wrote about, but I can do…
Post-Salon Ditziness
Traffic Court and Snow in Dixie
Okay, that was interesting. If you please “not guilty” in traffic court now, they make you wait for a couple of hours, then give you a new court date. They’ll have the cop come then, but don’t ask him to…
It’s a Thursday
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. –Andre Maurois It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. –Jonathan Swift I have traffic court today because…
S2
Foo. The new layout has about half the entries on my friends’ pages edging out of the border on the left side. I guess I need to get more clueful about S2. I’ll happily take pointers from someone who already…