“Just because you want to fight me doesn’t mean you should take it out on ME!”
“He’s a Hitler turtle!”
Archive for September, 2007
Quotes From The Past Few Days
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Iraq IED
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007Luckily they seem to have buried this one too deep…
Via Powerline.
Kung-Fu On The Mind
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Today in class we were discussing adverbs, and I told them that many adverbs end in \”-ly\”. I asked for examples. I got a number of words like \”happily,\” \”weirdly,\” \”sadly,\” and then one kid\’s face lit up, and he said, \”Brucely!\”
The Bird Channel
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007“Chickadee! That’s a funny word!”
“I probably saw one of them this morning on the bird feeder.”
“…is that a channel?”
-A student and myself discussing wildlife
Doomsday?
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007Rather an interesting article here about the possibility that the Soviet doomsday machine is still functioning. Enough to give me the willies.
Bush One-On-One
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007There is an interesting story here about some one-on-one interviews with President Bush. I will be interested to see what this book has to say about him — he’s pretty consistently getting criticism for everything he does in office, but I’m fairly certain that in the long run most of that criticism will turn out to be wrong. However, as Bush would likely say, we have to wait to see what the historians make of it over the long term.