Martha Stewart Apprentice: I had a hard time getting interested in the task itself, which was negotiating with celebrities for a charity auction. The auction itself was more interesting. David was “sent home” for being young. At least it wasn’t for making a huge blunder, and at the end he piqued […]
This morning I read notes for an old speech that Miers had given in 1993. Captain Ed said this speech was the straw that pushed him off the fence, toward opposing her nomination. Certainly it is poorly written, even for something that was to be delivered as a speech. I had to […]
This is one of those days where I could eat a chocolate horse.
Lately MFH has been thinking a lot about electricity and magnetism. He has been asking me all sorts of questions, everything from how batteries work to why magnetic fields aren’t quantized. We should do a podcast of it sometime; our discussions have been all over the map, from electromagnetism to quantum mechanics to […]
The Anchoress has a very good post on virginity.
She has an interesting explanation of why marriage is a blood covenant. I hadn’t thought of it that way before, but I think she’s right. Very cool.
Minneapolis schools are offering online phys-ed classes:
Teachers said they had to embrace a shift in physical education that was already under way: Less emphasis on team sports, and more on personal fitness, health and wellness.
About time. I could have told them that in 1989: “Why should I bother memorizing the dimensions of a […]
This week the teams were designing floats to advertise a new movie called “Zathura” (no relation to Zatera Ul). The women’s team got to adopt a member of the men’s team, to build their number back up–they chose Randal.
But the women continued to catfight and neglect important points, such as branding, scale, and correct […]
The Matchstick team finally won! After Martha reshuffled by appointing two project managers, and having them pick their teams. Jim, surprisingly, was chosen next-to-last, and Marcela was last. This meant that each team had one cook; the task was to design and sell salad dressing.
Jim’s loud, obnoxious sales strategy nearly got his […]
Not A Desperate Housewife has a post on abortion (warning: graphic pictures of little aborted people):
The argument that the baby isn’t fully developed yet, therefore, it’s not really a person is a lie. When we all are born, our bodies have not finished developing. Newborns skulls have yet to fuse, much of their future […]
Ebenezer means “stone of help”, Samuel set up an Ebenezer stone in 1 Samuel 7:12:
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, “Hitherto the Lord has helped us.”
Our Sunday school class is telling each other our Ebenezer stories–times when God has […]