When being stupid is smart
September 2, 2010
I’m pecking away at “Creative Composition”, by McMaster and McMaster. It’s an English textbook targeted at Grades 9 and 10.
It’s interesting, if only because they rounded up two guys with equally cool sounding names and put them together. Here’s to you, R.J. and W.C!
It’s also interesting because it dates from 1963.
It has some gems. (Previous [...]
August 28, 2010
Toronto FC coach says there’s no rift with his striker.
Should we believe him? It might be an easier question to answer, if it weren’t for Finnish Sauna Syndrome.
At the World Sauna Championships, a competitor died from sitting in the sauna too long (that’s the point of the competition). Why? Because if you ask a sauna [...]
August 17, 2010
A cute little podcast from the San Franciso Chronicle.
Some people just don’t like authority, I guess.
August 5, 2010
These things tend to happen when human eyeballs are removed from processes. I can’t think of a cost effective way to prevent stuff like this – it must be a real pain to re-evaluate all your currently showing text every time a new story breaks.
July 31, 2010
Have you heard of George Laraque?
I don’t mean the ice hockey player. I mean the ex-ice hockey player who is now the deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada.
Yikes!
July 24, 2010
Jerk Wars are what the Internet is best at.
Westboro Baptist Church vs. Some Nerds.
Recently I commented about a backlash against a cultural church. Well… I guess this is it.
The best description I can come up for this is a war. It is essentially destructive action on both sides, and like any war, there is collateral [...]
July 22, 2010
Today’s Non Sequitur
The Kingdom of God is such a departure from life as we know it that we can’t even conceive of what it’s like.
That’s one of the reasons that we can’t build such a thing ourselves.
It’s also the reason that “It doesn’t make sense to me” or “I don’t understand how it could possible [...]
July 16, 2010
If I linked to the depression that is Godblock, I should link to something nice:
A godly man being paid a compliment by quite a cynical secularist.