Archive for April, 2005

Scary

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

This is scary, if it’s true. It’s good that such a weapon is in Afghanistan, though — with US and international troops there keeping an eye on things, the ability to move it is more limited than it would be elsewhere.

Rove Moving Up

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

Not only does he pull the strings of the evil Bushhitler regime, but he controls the Vatican as well.
I bet old Karl is sitting in his office giggling like a schoolgirl about how scared the nutjob left is of him.

Government: Torturing Schoolkids

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

I just have one question for the government officials who came up with this: are you going to make school kids memorize all 12?
I also find it interesting that they acknowledge in the article that nobody paid much attention to the last one (despite children having to memorize it in school) and yet they feel the need to expand the thing twelve-fold.

New Pope!

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

There’s a new pope!
Congrats to all you Catholics out there, and I hope Joseph Ratzinger — now Benedict XVI — will lead the church well.

More On DeLay

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

There’s more here on Tom DeLay than I’ve heard any other news source cover. I know there’s a ‘scandal’ going on, but nobody in the media seems willing to cover much other than “he is accused of doing such-and-such” when various Democrat leaders are covered for spouting off about the whole thing.
It really is sad when that’s the level of discourse.

Amazing

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

This is absolutely spectacular. More here.

Song And School

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

I’ve been obsessed with this song for the past week, and this is a pretty good animation based on it — it may take a while to load though.
Proof that I’ve been paying too much attention in school: I immediately thought about how one could go about building a lesson for a high school history class around the song.
I took the Praxis test for social studies content knowledge today too. If anyone can explain to me why I need to have memorized the production of pig iron in long tons of the countries of western Europe in 1850 in order to teach high school social studies, let me know.

The Military

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Chrenkoff has an excellent piece here on American military redeployment. Definitely worth a read.

Questionable Compliment

Friday, April 15th, 2005

I don’t know if I would want to be honored by having a slime-mold beetle named after me. Entomologists are definitely an odd bunch.

Further Proof

Friday, April 15th, 2005

…that there are some really messed up people out there.