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Passing the torch of politicization
This administration has a history of playing politics with responses to extraordinary events. One of the greatest examples was the bill to create the Department of Homeland Security. The bill contained a poison pill of no unionization, so many Democrats voted against it in that form in hopes of excising this portion later and voting again on a ( Read more... ) -
Phrase of the day
Presuppositional Apologetics - "a Christian presuppositionalist presupposes God's existence and argues from that perspective to show the validity of Christian theism. This position also presupposes the truth of Christian Scripture and relies on the validity and power of the gospel to change lives ( Read more... ) -
Sick as a dog
Last week, I had a nasty virus. Most of the symptoms are relatively reasonable: runny nose, moderate fever, cough. Relative to the sore throat. It hurt so so much, I couldn't swallow. Sleep was unbelievably uncomfortable. After a couple of days of this, the unlucky recipient looks like they have been hanging out with the Spanish Inquisition ( Read more... ) -
Flunked
The cinematic genius that goes by the name Ben Stein is coming out with another movie. Trying to become the right's answer to Michael Moore, he is fighting the evilutionist hegemony in academia in Expelled.
Here are some of the highlights so far:
- The movie is being marketed by the same people who brought us that excellent snuff flick The Passion ( Read more... )
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The irony
This administration removes China from the list of human rights violators, and almost immediately the repressions in Tibet happen. -
Math education
Finally, someone figured it out. And not a moment too soon. Any more math reform, and there won't be any math left. -
Math blog for the masses
One blog I accidentally left out is Good Math, Bad Math by Mark Chu-Carroll. This one is very much like the TV program Mythbusters in that he takes up bad mathematical arguments in the real world and takes them apart. The recent two posts are really good: he explains the morgage crisis and our problems with health insuranceOne of the main ( Read more... ) -
Netherlands Santa? No. Just american justice department.
First, Alberto Gonzales says that "there is no express right to habeas corpus in the U.S. Constitution," and now this (here is the original). Our government now claims that they can kidnap people in other countries. Not just terrorists. Anyone who is wanted in the United States! Without any extradition hearings, designed to make sure that people ( Read more... ) -
Mathematical blogroll
I found a couple of really cool blogs pandering to the academic community, mathematicians and mathematics educators.
The first one is an anonymous blog Halfway There by Zeno. A mathematician (or a historian of math) has to appreciate the interaction between the title and the pseudonym. The author very eloquently describes challenges facing a ( Read more... )
