My Own Thoughts

The National Association of Colleges and Employers’ Student Survey shows that less than 20 percent of 2009 graduates who were looking for a job have actually found one. In comparison, more than half of the class of 2007 found jobs before graduation. The situation is apparently so bleak that many college seniors (about 41 percent) [...]

I have now written the fourth chapter, with revisions. I revised the second chapter extensively and the third not extensively. I think I need to revise the first chapter extensively. Or maybe not. I guess I should go look at the library for similar series books and see. I will be starting the fifth chapter [...]

I don’t listen to the news anymore. I can’t take it. So now I get my news from fb. I had already heard about Farrah dying, in a peripheral conversation at a Shakespeare discussion today. But when I got on tonight one of my friends posted about Michael Jackson, Iran, and North Korea too. So [...]

In the United States, Chr San Jose Mercury News A federal judge today denied an evangelical Christian group’s request for permission to hand out literature on sidewalks at an Arab festival in the heart of the Detroit area’s Middle Eastern community. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds denied Anaheim, Calif.-based Arabic Christian Perspective’s request for a [...]

Father’s day is today. What can we learn about fathers? Teenagers whose fathers are more involved in their lives are less likely to engage in risky sexual activities such as unprotected intercourse, according to a new study. The more attentive the dad — and the more he knows about his teenage child’s friends — the [...]

Apparently, Barbara Boxer, a Senator from California where some of the biggest military bases exist, doesn’t understand respect when she hears it. As a former Army Officer, if one of my soldiers called me “Lieutenant”, instead of “el-tee” or “Sir”, I would know that he found me lacking. Calling me by my job title or [...]

Apparently exercise is one way (an important way, maybe even a vital way) to keep the brain working as you age. Briefly, the investigators found that adults who did not smoke, exercised once a week, were socially active, had at least a high school education and a ninth grade literacy level, were more likely to [...]

Lilly Friedman doesn’t remember the last name of the woman who designed and sewed the wedding gown she wore when she walked down the aisle over 60 years ago. But the grandmother of seven does recall that when she first told her fiancé Ludwig that she had always dreamed of being married in a white [...]

There were good talk overall. I skipped most of the town halls and I think that was good. I missed one of the keynotes. Apparently that was also good. I learned some, more about what I don’t know than about what I do know. I was lonesome. I did get out and talk more, possibly [...]

Reuter’s health today said: People with psoriasis, a common scaly skin condition, are at increased risk for strokes, heart disease, and circulatory problems in the legs, new research shows. Yes, the only reason I read it is my father has psoriasis.

I left for my folks’ house at ten a.m. today. I was supposed to pick my mom up for lunch at 11:30, but she wasn’t feeling well so I went and got her some books at the bookstore instead. Then I went to get my dad from rehab. He wanted to go to Sonic so [...]

Americans continue to dig deep despite the tight economic times to help those in need. Charitable giving in 2008 totals $307 billion — only a 2 percent drop from the year prior — with individual givers leading the pack. From Good News Now.

A pregnant woman, twice turned away from a hospital, took an important matter into her own hands… the birth of her child. FRebecca Longley, 20, of Hampshire, England, delivered her daughter by herself in the front seat of a car while her boyfriend raced to the hospital She’d been turned away from the hospital twice [...]

I don’t know. I did decide to teach something that I thought might be a little edgy because I think it is a good thing to present to the students. I figured even if they don’t hire me, the teachers will have a good handout. I have a meeting with the decision makers on Thursday. [...]

Good news: I have an interview today for a job at a college not far from me. I remembered to get my suit back from the cleaners. I know what I am going to talk on. I found my transcripts from my two graduate school colleges. Bad news: I need to make some photocopies. My [...]

LiveScience says “people choose news that fits their views.” News readers gorge on media messages that fit their pre-existing views, rather than graze on a wider range of perspectives. In other words, they consume what they agree with, researchers say. The finding comes out of a recent study which tracked how college students spent their [...]

I already went to the website and sent an email. I will call on Monday. From the comments to another post comes this notice from Abiding Joy: Some terrible anti-parent/ anti-family legislation (SB 1440) that allows a CPS caseworker or any employee of CPS to swear an affidavit to “aid in an investigation” that would [...]

Murder of babies. Murder of an abortionist. Murder of a soldier in a recruiting office. Which ones of these do you think the media ignores?

In 1962 Paul Goodman published his book Compulsory Mis-Education. He wrote of the isolation of youth within the high schools (compulsory attendance in high school was still relatively new), where they were compelled to stay, day after day, excluded from interesting adult life and pressured to perform and conform primarily to keep them out of [...]