Thanks to some reader alerts, I learned that pictures on my blog weren’t showing up on Internet Exploder in Windows. They looked fine in Mac, though, and they looked fine in Windows using Opera. But not IE. Why? Because I left out the width definition, using only height instead. I did this deliberately because it […]
Homeschooling: Went to S.I.D.E.S. today to meet one of the secondary advisors. Very interesting meeting, and the kids left with new courses. They already have TLE Math (The Learning Equation) in hand, Emma with 7, Adam with 8. For additional courses we took home two Science 8’s; two English 10’s; two German 10’s (to meet […]
I still can’t get to dissecting some matters at hand (re. the prior to previous post), but here’s another article that gets to the heart of things: Culture of Shame by Matthew Leeming, a review of Asne Seierstad’s The Bookseller of Kabul. Leeming attacks (in my view rightly) cultural relativism that would assign to primitive, […]
Interesting post by Philip Greenspun today. The Republicans can continue to win their way into power for the same reason that stupid people continue to buy lottery tickets.
Julie, what a pointer, trop riche for sure. What I really want to post about, but won’t today because it’s already late & I’m fagged out, is this and this. Among the Adbuster article’s points is that “American advanced capitalism has ruthlessly exploited our comparison instinct. More than that, it encourages grossly pathological ways of […]
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