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Revisioinist? Or Current Events?

Posted in musing on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Snapped at my local bookstore.

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Quotation: Follies of Life

Posted in quotations on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.

Helen Rowland

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ROI on Education

Posted in soapbox on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We have a very nice school going up in our city. It’s a multi-level school with large windows, and will have state-of-the-art everything.
One special ed teacher I know refers to it as “the school for losers”. Another high school teacher calls it the “palace for delinquents”.
You see, the multi-million dollar school they are building are [...]

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Quotation: Might Have Been

Posted in quotations on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

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Stupidity

Posted in musing on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »

My recent blog reading turned up a rather funny, but at the same time, very true, article on stupidity. You can read it here: Is Stupidity Killing America’s Productivity?
It puts me in mind of a radio program I heard many years ago. The presenters of the call-in show asked people to call in about warnings [...]

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Quotation: Poets and Logicians

Posted in quotations on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

G. K. Chesterton

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Decline of Manners in Kids

Posted in musing on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There are some children that my daughter plays with that set my teeth on edge. It’s mainly because these children are loud, rude and crude. When my daughter asks if she can have them over, I have to ask myself if I can put up with the behavior at that moment.
The sad part is that [...]

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Quotation: Madness

Posted in quotations on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

He may be mad, but there’s method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It’s what drives men mad, being methodical.

G. K. Chesterton

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Catholics aren’t Christian? Huh?

Posted in musing on March 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This was conversation was overheard a couple of days ago: “I’m go to
Baptist Church. Are you a Christian?” “I’m Catholic.” “Oh, so you’re not a Christian then.”
This puzzled me. Partly because I come from an area of the country where pretty much everyone is either Catholic or Lutheran, and partly because I have been through [...]

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