Posted in News, Philosophy, education on October 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today, a professor from my law school alma mater was asked to take a leave of absence. The long and the short of the situation was apparently this (if you read through the comments, a student in the class enlightened everyone, in detail, as to what happened and it is not the [...]
Posted in Dogs, News on August 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today, Michael Vick announced that he would be taking a plea deal. Less than a month after wanting to clear his name, Vick announced that he will take a plea deal that would give him up to 18 months of jail time. The NFL indicates that Vick’s representations to them are not the same actions [...]
Posted in Knitting, Life, News, Philosophy on August 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Back in 2000, Malcolm Gladwell wrote The Tipping Point. Having seen him speak at Connecticut Forum in 2006, I decided I wanted to read the book. It is, so far, an excellent book. The main premise laid out in the book is that social phenomena in the world can be explained as epidemics. Starting with the [...]
Posted in News, Philosophy on July 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A great big thanks to Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the Yarn Harlot, for pointing this out to her readers in her blog. Here However, it makes me question why I need to read about the words “rape” and “victim” being banned in a courtroom in Nebraska on a knitting blog (not that knitting blogs are nonesense, [...]
