I received an e-mail a few days ago from someone upset with the ageist policy of a local peace group in Pennsylvania. This group was putting together a bus to go down to an anti-war rally organized by International Answer. Unlike every other bus going, this group decided to require that everyone on […]
Time for me to jump on the bandwagon and discuss the phenomena of “nice guys finish last”. There seems to be a backlash brewing against the proverbial nice guy (as if we needed it). Lindsay Beyerstein, it seems, made the opening shot by attacking all those whiny nice guys as perhaps not as […]
Dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t
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Some of Islam’s historic sites in Mecca, possibly including a home of the Prophet Mohammad, are under threat from Saudi real estate developers and Wahhabi Muslims who view them as promoting idolatry.
Sami Angawi, an expert on the region’s Islamic architecture, said 1,400-year-old buildings from the early Islamic period […]
A quick note, Fox’s animated baseball, skippy, that came on to explain what a Change Up pitch is really fricken annoying. Holy, crap its annoying.
Edit1: Another quick note, I like the idea of having the All Star game determine home field advantage of the World Series. As their slogan this year says, […]
Today is the Major League Baseball’s 76th annual All Star game. While I usually don’t pay any attention to the All Star game (and only slightly more attention to regular season baseball), I think I might actually watch this one. Why? Because as some readers may know, I grew up in Michigan […]
Toby Crowley, a friend, and fellow blogger I met last year at the Seperation of School and State Conference has posed a good, though difficult question to the NYRA forums. All candidates for the Board were asked the question, and thus far they all seem to be waiting to see what I have to […]
1,500 suicidal sheep leap of a cliff in Turkey
First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported Friday.
The sheep fell 15 metres (yards) to their deaths […]
This is a very interesting quiz, one that actually makes you think. I’d be quite interested in seeing everyone else’s results.
The quiz is here: http://www.philosophersmag.com/bw/games/taboo.htm
My results and description:
Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.33.
Your Interference Factor is: 0.00.
Your Universalising Factor is: 0.40.
There was no inconsistency in the way that you responded to the questions in this […]
Ysterday Daily Kos posted a rumor that Cheif Justice Rehnquist will be announcing plans to step down from the high bench today. The Washington Post picked up the story/rumor as well. Kos gave a time window though that just passed:
The big DC rumor is that Rehnquist will announce his retirement tomorrow between 10-11 […]
Thanks to Adam Fletcher and freechild.org I discovered the blog for Peter Levine over at CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, I believe I’ll add a link and start checking in on his page.
Anyways, it seems CIRCLE hosted an event about small schools yesterday. The “small […]