In ancient times scientists believed that the heavens revolved around the earth. The geocentrists, as they were called, were in charge until around the 16th century when those crazy heliocentrists started to make some in-roads. There was hot debate, in those days, about what was at the universe’s center. The debate was a bit [...]
There’s a certain degree of irritation that I have with people who get pissy about alcohol consumption. There are limits to everything. 10 glasses of water a day is probably not too many. 10 bottles of coke probably is. 10 glasses of beer almost certainly is. There’s a certain kind of person, though, who looks [...]
I still agree, by and large, with my last post, but I took a minute to go back and read some of the background posts, the comments, and some more of Dizzy’s stuff… and I feel compelled to write some more.
Now calm down, Amanda… this one isn’t about you…specifically…or is it?1 Ken blogged today about relationship gripes in response to some posts of Dizzy’s… I agree with him but, instead of just letting you read his post, I’m going to say what he said in a slightly different way2… one that will probably piss off more [...]
It’s 7:30 in the morning. You are a summer school teacher. You show up at your classroom door to find two parents waiting for you. They want to know why their son is only getting a 40% in your class. You sit down with them an explain that, basically, he is a delinquent. The parents [...]
It’s tough, right? Even if you’re good at getting a grip and shaking out of it… everyone loses perspective. It’s easy to do. The cruel tragedy of it all is that you generally only lose perspective when you’re in the moment. When you’re involved directly. You know… those times when you need it the most. The omniscient [...]
Every sport and game has a compendium of rules, promulgated to keep the playing fields fair, make the games interesting, and give the fans of the losing team in any given contest an excuse. What really blows my mind, though, is how people think they can invent rules for fandom (or life in general). Take, for [...]
A few days ago Matt posted a little mini-rant on how Little League Baseball shouldn’t be about winning or losing. If you’ll pardon my expression: horse-hockey. I’m not sure what sissy liberal element got into Matt, but there are two huge problems with the proposition: First, children need to learn, at a very early age, how to [...]
With the new South Dakota bill that was signed into law which makes virtually all abortions criminal, it looks like we’re headed for a new round of heated abortion debates. A number of years ago I had my horizons broadened a bit by a chapter in Carl Sagan’s Billions and Billions titled “Is it possible to [...]
In a previous post I wondered “Are there issues on which lacking some major faculty like vision or hearing could be a serious detriment to the execution of sound public policy?” While I half expected a number of self-righteous (and idiotic) “It’s wrong to even think about such things” comments, I got none. I did get [...]
