As predicted, I'm a little zonked, and don't quite feel up to extensive writing about the rest of today's picks from the 101:

( Benamar Benatta )

First two of today's six out of 101:

( The Dirty Tricks manual for committee chairs )

Yesterday's escape from work featured a pissing match with PublisherDude over two sidebars that the NL people wrote and want in the book, and he think are bad science (they're not; I fact checked them, insofar as one can fact check something that says "Your genetic make-up may play a role in determining your predeliction towards certain aspects of ( Read more... )

This is in honour of audrawilliams and of northbard's cool family (whom I have not met, but his post about them inspired me to tell this story). And of course sabotabbyIf I've told this story before, I apologise. I can't remember ( Read more... )

This is funnier if you know that I've spent the past several weeks trying to reconcile what the Institute of Catholic Educators want high school students to learn about sexual health with what the public health educators want to teach, unaided by a deliberately vague and useless curriculum.

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Dear Driver of the Mini-School Bus on Queen St. West this Morning,

Double-parking your bus is rude.

Double-parking your bus on Queen St. West is dumb.

Double-parking your bus at 8:15 A.M. on Queen St. West so that it blocks the streetcar lane, and holds traffic up for several blocks, while you go get a coffee at the pseudo-French patisserie, ( Read more... )

Over in Classics, eol_nanelmoth has posted an interview between TAE and academic-turned-farmer-turned-academic-turned-social-commentator Victor Davis HansonI'm fascinated. Prof. Davis seems to espouse a modern American version of the Victorian British "We are the true heirs to the amazingly successful, true, good, and just, and great Classical cultures" ( Read more... )