My Own Thoughts

isn’t totally freaking me out comes from Discriminations. Assume the life expectancy numbers are correct. (They’re best estimates, and may be understated.) Six years added to a 40-year working life represent a 15 percent increase, the equivalent of nearly two extra months of work a year. That’s a lot of economic potential, especially when you [...]

CNN has the story which caught my attention. “This is a murder mystery from 178 years ago, and it’s finally coming to the light of day,” Frank Watson said. The brothers first heard about Duffy’s Cut from their grandfather, a railroad worker, who told the ghost story to his family every Thanksgiving. According to local [...]

Discovery has an article that says that the first proof of a feast took place in Israel 12,000 years ago and featured 71 tortoises and three aurochs (cow ancestors). Apparently it was celebrated to lay a female shaman to rest. According to the study, published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, [...]

Thank you, to all our veterans.

The war is a reason for the deficits, but not THE reason. See the graph at American Digest for the truth in red, white, and blue.

The Soviet Union didn’t collapse because of Reagan or Thatcher or missile bases or Star Wars: It collapsed because of Bulgarian blue jeans. The free market was trying to tell the Communists that Bulgarian blue jeans were ugly and didn’t fit, that people wouldn’t wear Bulgarian blue jeans — not, literally, to save their lives. [...]

The Math Curmudgeon has one that made me … something. Anyway, I thought it was worth sharing. 3rd Place After walking around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the store. The shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer [...]

Tomorrow it will be a full month since she died. It seems odd that she’s not there. I still say my parents’ house and my parents’ condo. I still think of it as Mother’s. Of course, I told my 19 year old today, “Here’s Gramma” while patting the urn of her ashes sitting in the [...]

Right on the Left Coast talks of the LA Times “identifying good and bad teachers by name.” Ouch. RotLC says that if shaming the teachers gets them to make changes, it’s all to the good. Yes. It is. But maybe the reason they are looking at making changes is because this is the first time [...]

I now have a full-time job. That would have made me hop up and down happily. Or maybe not. Maybe it wouldn’t. But it doesn’t now because while I have a full-time job, I will probably still be applying for a position at a new school next year. Right when I would have been okay [...]

I received my averages for classes for the last three years, as compared to the full-time faculty and the other adjuncts. It is not quite accurate because I have been teaching a new version of the course that whole time and yet the advisors kept letting students who did not belong in. Despite that caveat, [...]

I took Business Class, so I didn’t have most of these issues. The doodles/drawings are hysterical. Red Eye by Abstract City Blog.

Falsified scholarship gets scholar a pass, when it’s liberal. He was drummed out of academe after a controversy over his book about guns in America

I quit teaching full-time to follow my husband to a place he could get a job and I ended up staying home to teach our sons full-time. Last year our youngest son began doing all his work as a dual credit student at the local community college. I always assumed I would go back to [...]

Today it seemed to me that God pulled back the veil between here and Heaven and showed me my mother. I did not see her face, so I don’t know what she looks like in Heaven exactly. However, I saw a leg, up, in movement, and a silk skirt, long and full and more demure [...]