My Own Thoughts

from a while away and I am going away again soon and while I am home, I am working on papers to get away again somewhere else. I am thinking about writing a paper on some novels that R and I like and discussing them in terms of the tradition of gothic. This would be [...]

My life has been very busy. I am teaching four classes. I have eight presentations at conferences. I have two articles to write. My father was in the hospital for 45 days and I spent 40 hours a week up there. When he got out, my mother went into the hospital for a week. I [...]

Then I wouldn’t have to deal with all their weirdnesses. My mother was sick this last weekend and by Monday was coughing, moving very slowly, and running a fever. She went to the doctor and he admitted her to the hospital. My sisters were both mad that Mom went in. Today I was talking to [...]

As Feminist theorist Gilligan (1993) has argued compellingly, implicit in this model of male development is an understanding of psychological health as being synonymous with autonomy and separateness. Conversely pathology and moral weakness within psychoanalytic theory have traditionally been seen as resulting from a failure to define oneself as separate from the other. (13) Ah. [...]

can be found here. Including fat from a redheaded man as an essential ingredient in poison. And that the Greeks believed that dead redheads turned into vampires.

Update: No. Not Atlantis. The lines came from Google’s sonar equipment. Drats. The Sun: THIS is the amazing image which could show the fabled sunken city of Atlantis. It shows a perfect rectangle the size of Wales lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean nearly 3½ miles down. A host of criss-crossing lines, looking [...]

My dad got out of the hospital Friday. He is home and not trying very hard, it seems to me. His therapy is down to three times a week, because they don’t think he is strong enough for anything else, though he had 5x a week at the hospital. My mom is in the hospital [...]

Finally, an EU report that I like. “Video games are in most cases not dangerous and can even contribute to the development of important skills,” said Toine Manders, the Dutch liberal lawmaker who drafted the report. “(They stimulate) learning of facts and skills such as strategic reflection, creativity, cooperation and a sense of innovation,” a [...]

That’s a problem. It may explain why you are overweight. Overweight? Part of the problem may be low vitamin D levels, a new study hints. Among a group of 90 young women living in sunny southern California, those with insufficient levels of vitamin D were significantly heavier and had greater body mass than their counterparts [...]

Cranach has a post on Switzerland’s new recognition of social animals’ rights. People may no longer own a single fish, guinea pig, or rhinoceros. But Captain’s Quarters has an older post on how the Swiss were trying pass a law for assisted suicide if a person were depressed. Switzerland agreed to assisted suicide for those [...]

A middle school teacher was suspended from her teaching position because on her personal, private Facebook social networking page (not her official teaching page on the school’s website), she posted a picture of herself with a gun. Wisconsin has lost it. First read on Joanne Jacobs.

Mathematica says alternatively certified and traditionally certified teachers are equal. (Seen on Core Knowledge Blog And Joanne Jacobs.)

Still in the hospital. He got two day passes and went home this weekend. He went for about seven hours on Saturday and five on Sunday. He wanted to go back to the hospital and seemed relieved to be there. I don’t know why. His language is improving. We are working on sentences and questions. [...]

Four men, whose calling led them to being sacrificial as their elder brother, gave their lives so that four other men might have a chance at living. Read about it.

Cowboy Up, Yale Conservatives by David French on NRO. Why I Left Academia by Anonymous on Minding the Campus. They aren’t totally disagreeing. Just two different perspectives on being conservative in academia.

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The empty calories they were specifically discussing were juice. Turns out that apple juice can help stave off Alzheimers. Reuters Health said: Drinking apple juice helps slow the accumulation of the protein fragments that damage the brain in Alzheimer’s disease, new research in mice shows. The protein fragments, known as beta-amyloid, are the building blocks [...]