The other day at the gym, while everyone else was watching CNN’s tribute to Michael Jackson, I was watching C-SPAN. It was more interesting.
A Democrat and Republican were duking out the details of the new health care bill. As far as I can tell, the purpose of bill is to provide health care insurance to [...]
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Is health care a right?
Posted in Business, Philosophy and Theology, Politics on 18 July 2009 | 1 Comment »
an excerpt from Equivocation
Posted in Literary, Movies Music Media, Philosophy and Theology, Politics on 13 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SHAG (Shakespeare): I won’t write your lies.
CECIL: By the time you’re done, they won’t be lies. Here are the specifications of the dirt. The water. The wood. Anything else you need will be provided. There will have been a plot when you have written the history of it [...]
A Treatise of Equivocation
Posted in Literary, Movies Music Media, Philosophy and Theology, Politics on 13 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Cain’s Equivocation (2009), which I saw in Ashland last week, is set amidst the events following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. It takes the reality that the details of the plot are still highly debated/politically-charged and the fact that Shakespeare and his Players were writing and performing at the same time as these events [...]
Decimals
Posted in Politics, Teaching on 18 March 2009 | 3 Comments »
This week we’ve been multiplying decimals in fifth grade. This inevitably leads to word problems with sales tax. After struggling through several problems yesterdays I broached the question, “What is sales tax?” I got blank stares, an a a vague answer that it had something to do with buying things. We proceeded to spend the [...]
California’s Crisis: The ungovernable state
Posted in Business, Overheard, Politics on 1 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An excellent (and short) article from this week’s Economist regarding California’s budget issues.
R
“I am the sun; you are the moon… that’s a lie!”
Posted in Literary, Politics on 4 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A bit from the 1/21 Colbert Report (an interview with Elizabeth Alexander, author of the Inauguration poem). Hilarious discussion of the difference between a metaphor and a lie.
R
Discussing the Now; Some disorderly thoughts from today
Posted in Politics, Teaching on 20 January 2009 | 1 Comment »
I scratched the first hour of school this morning and we sprawled on the floor in the middle of the classroom, watching the inauguration.
I was intent. My students were as intent as children are …
“That didn’t sound like a prayer, Ms. Card.”
“What is she wearing on her head?!?”
“Why do they use such big words?”
But once [...]
A Tirade.
Posted in Philosophy and Theology, Politics on 3 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tomorrow I am voting. It is my right. It is my privilege.
It is also an odious piece of business.
I don’t like McCain. I don’t like Obama. I don’t like their policies or their campaigns. I don’t like the whole electoral process. It’s a cross between a beauty pagent and a cockfight, with less beauty and a [...]
Right to Teach?
Posted in Politics, tagged california educational law, homeschool on 17 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
On February 28, 2008, the Los Angeles Country Court of Appeal published a ruling, which says that parents do not have a Constitutional right to home school their children (See the ruling, In re Rachel L., here).
If you’d like to do something, you could sign HSLDA’s petition to “depublish” the ruling, which would mean it can’t be [...]
