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Thursday, October 04, 2007
WILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE.....?
The headline reads: “Threat of punishment can deter bad behaviour”......well, who’d a thunk it!?!
I’m not kidding, but I don’t know why taxpayers put up with this kind of nonsense..... I DO wish that U.S. public schools would act on this research, not to speak of SDA schools, which seem infested with people who believe in “redemptive discipline”, AKA no discipline to speak of. It keeps the parents off your back, don’t you know? And if you’re willing to put up with bad behavior on the part of some students, your life at school may be a bit easier in the short run, as well. The long run? In the long run, we’re all dead..... Of course I may be overly cynical, but how does it look to you?
But enough of that, what about the research?
Friday, September 14, 2007
WHERE IS THE CHORUS OF "I TOLD YOU SO"s......?
Back when the fight to legalize abortion was being fought - the fight that led to ROE V. WADE - we heard all kinds of warnings about where our society would end up if we adopted a view of human life that allows the killing of unborn children. People who issued these warnings were called all sorts of negative things—inflammatory, fundamentalist, dogmatic, etc. Those who favored “abortion rights” were adamant that there really was a difference between the unborn and those of us on the outside, and that the line between abortion and infanticide would NOT be crossed.
Think again.....
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
HAVE I MENTIONED RECENTLY THAT I'M A GRANDFATHER?
Sophia Isabella Leslie Camacho is 10 months old......maybe that’s why the following brought tears so quickly to my eyes.
TROUT HAVE BEEN MOVED ALL OVER THE U.S., AND AROUND THE WORLD
Along the East Coast, the Brook Trout populations have been devastated by Brown Trout imported from Europe.
On the other hand, in the Western U.S., it’s the native Cutthroat Trout that have suffered because Eastern Brook Trout were transplanted into THEIR streams and rivers.
Anglers and other conservation-minded people are restoring, and even rediscovering, native trout species all over the place—you can READ ALL ABOUT IT in the August, 2007 issue of Smithsonian.
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HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED YOU WERE REALLY A PRINCE FROM SOMEWHERE FAR AWAY?
I guess that William Lobkowicz didn’t really have to “dream” about it—his grandfather probably told him about the 10 castles the family had owned in Czechoslovakia going back 700 years. One of them was in Prague......
Sunday, August 12, 2007
THE EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL DESERVES AN AWARD FOR COURAGE.....
I’ve loved THE FRINGE , ever since our son Thorvald presented MIDDLE FLIGHT, his own one-man play, there in 2001.
But, this year there’s a REALLY SPECIAL REASON for all of us to love the Fringe.....I refer to “Jihad, the Musical”.
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Sunday, August 05, 2007
HAVEN'T YOU ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED BY BOOMERANGS.....?
I admit I have, certainly since an uncle (or someone) gave me one at Christmas a long time ago....perhaps the most frustrating present I’ve ever gotten. The instructions told me how it was supposed to work - but it wouldn’t do it for me.
These are what I thought all “proper” boomerangs were supposed to look like, but apparently the aboriginal Australians made a number of different designs, and used them for
hunting, fishing and imitating the flight of hawks; they made boomerangs to catch on the edge of an enemy’s shield and hit him from behind. Some have two wings; others, four.
Reading
- BlogsForDummies :)
Web resources
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Ravi Zacharias
- Southern Adventist University
- The SAU Biology Deptartment - where I work with a bunch of very neat people.
- Venezuelan news -- FROM Venezuela