My Own Thoughts

A teacher was told by a 15-year-old high school sophomore that he was having homosexual sex with an “older man.” At the very least, statutory rape occurred. Fox News reported that the teacher violated a state law requiring that he report the abuse. That former teacher, Kevin Jennings, is President Obama’s “safe school czar”… from [...]

Turns out the “hockey stick” was based on chosen data, rather than random data. See this article for a deeper discussion.

Even though they were two and three days late, I sent the Sookie and vampire proposals. I hope they are accepted.

I was so focused on the two papers that are due next, I missed two deadlines for papers that I could have written in my sleep. I am not too happy about that. Both were vampire papers, which isn’t what I wanted to be my forte, but I could have done them easily and it [...]

I had papers due on Monday. They should have already had a version of them on the Friday before that we looked at in class, an in-class peer writing workshop. I had someone email it to me today. I took the papers late on Wednesday and gave the people a chance to rewrite for an [...]

I either misremembered or an article I was discussing was misleading. The article is no longer on the net. (I do have the original URL.) Now I’ve embarrassed myself and lost credibility. I hate that.

Women in the Ancient World Where do you get your ideas? answer from writer Neil Gaiman. (Whom I have never heard of, but I like his questions in the middle.)

from the Telegraph What do you think of the list? In the first ten I’ve read four and don’t like one particularly. I like all of the next four. Of the many more middle years books I’ve read 18. The list is weighted towards Brit lit, of course, and apparently the Telegraph is way fonder [...]

Why is it that going to my parents’ house makes me tired? Usually I am up till midnight or later and I don’t really feel tired at all. I started getting tired at 9 tonight and I’m still fighting it. I was hoping to finish this paper tonight, but it’s longer than I thought it [...]

It’s the biggest ever. And it has a bracelet that Jeska would love. I really need to send Dielli’s book out again. The picture is from the Guardian.

It’s been five months since I submitted my chapter on Civil War holidays. Usually when you don’t hear anything with a call like this, it means that they’re getting their ducks in a row to reject you. However, today I received an email saying the chapter had been accepted. They made some minor changes, taking [...]

I sent out a creative nonfiction piece yesterday. I am very happy with the piece overall, but after I sent it I realized I should have changed the dates to make them more recent… If I had just moved everything ten years forward it would still have been creative nonfiction. The “creative” part would just [...]

The company sent information that my two packages (email and snail mail) were received. I should get paid within the next month. That is good. Maybe we’ll get out of debt (again) soon.

I was at my mom’s house today. It’s her birthday and I took her beautiful flowers from FJ Florist in south Houston. They are INCREDIBLE! (And relatively inexpensive as well.) Well, it rained on the way there, not much, but a little. I prayed we’d get rain in my neighborhood. Then I came home. There [...]

Dear Tech Support: Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker [...]

I don’t want to work. I don’t want to grade. I don’t even want to read books I enjoy because they are for work. I am struggling with depression right now. Please pray for me.

The Independent has the news that a fragment from the world’s oldest Bible has been found in an Egyptian monastery. Nikolas Sarris spotted a previously unseen section of the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates from about AD350, as he was trawling through photographs of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt. The Codex, [...]

Why America Doesn’t Believe the President is an interesting and effective compilation of various authors to show why health care reform has lost popularity… And why people think Obama is lying.

Discovery talks about an extinct eagle which they believe preyed on lone humans. Could this be the real-life version of the roc?

After two different ACORN groups supported a pimp and the sexual exploitation of minor illegal immigrants, the Census Bureau of the US has finally dumped the activist group. It’s about time. Too bad they’re still earmarked for millions from the federal government.