In a thread about evolution, Pierre Corneille said the following: Speaking for myself, sometimes I actually kind of get a little chip-on-shoulder-y with the pro-teaching-evolution-in-school crowd because I detect sometimes a certain arrogance that annoys. When deciding where I want… Continue Reading
South Carolina, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada, Maryland, Alaska, New Jersey, Wyoming, Delaware, New Mexico, Indiana, Tennessee, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Kansas, Massachusetts, Vermont, Missouri, Connecticut, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Virginia, South Dakota, Rhode Island, Florida, Ohio, West Virginia, Colorado,… Continue Reading
Let’s say the New York Yankees lost the World Series at Yankee Stadium to the New York Mets, in the tenth inning, after having led from the second though a tying run scored in the ninth, and after Derek Jeter got… Continue Reading
Family: [F1] How motherhood is changing. [F2] Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has taken a lot of bad publicity for her “family-unfriendly” anti-telecommuting policy, but according to Nanette Fondas, her paternity leave policy is revolutionary. [F3] Sean Reardon writes about the… Continue Reading
Last weekend, my Facebook feed depicted a synchronized outpouring of appreciation for mothers on Mother’s Day. These stood out though: Awww. This is worth inspecting, and not just because it speaks to the increasing use of mobile devices to post… Continue Reading
The NTSB wants to lower the legal driving blood alcohol content to .05 from .08. This hasn’t proved to be as popular as I would have guessed, though it appears most commenters at OTB approve. No surprise, but I’m not… Continue Reading
In Great Falls, Montana, an evacuation occurred when sirens went a-blaring at what appeared to be a gas leak. But then they determined that there was no gas leak. So what gives? At first they thought it was a broken… Continue Reading
No, this isn’t about the Babylon 5 bookclub. Rather, it’s about Russell’s post and Kazzy’s recent comment on watching TV with and around spousal units (I can’t remember which post it is attached to. Clancy doesn’t like television. Historically, anyway,… Continue Reading
So today was Lain’s wellcheck: the periodic visits just to make sure that everything is progressing as it should. Everything came out aces, but only after some real turbulence. Though Clancy is usually the one that takes Lain in for… Continue Reading
Today’s story about the Justice Department obtaining two months’ worth of telephone records from the Associated Press, apparently without a warrant and without any sort of prior notice to the people or entity thus searched, gives me a good platform… Continue Reading