Proposed Constitutional Amendment Banning Flag Burning Fails

Pertinent points:

The amendment failed to pass by one vote with 66 congressmen in favor and 34 against. A 2/3 majority is needed to pass a constitutional amendment.

"Countless men and women have died defending that flag," said Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., closing two days of ( Read more... )

How to Write Good
(Yes, we've seen it before, but it still amuses me greatly)

How to write good

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.

2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)

4. Employ the vernacular.

5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are ( Read more... )

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Shall I join the insanity?

Oh no oh no oh no, the sky is falling and the world will end tomorrow.

At least if you believe the internet.

(06-06-06, the ''devil's date'')

This guy is disturbingly good at about fifty years worth of dance.

Evolution of Dance

Two exams tomorrow. One's my math class, where I sit on the border between an A and a B and have one of the highest grades in the class. As long as I can concentrate, that shouldn't be bad. The other... we'll see.

The second should be easy, but that dosn't always work out. If she's testing us over the basic ideas and content of the books, it will ( Read more... )

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me ( Read more... )

If you were intending to buy some ice cream for US$5.00, you could instead buy:

• thirteen litres of unleaded gasoline (in America)
• one ninth of a cast-iron wok
• one minute with a London prostitute
• thirteen cigarettes
• two hundred and nineteen grams of swiss chocolate

Was doing some work for my intern class, and we were reading material by and about Dr. Ruby Payne, who puts a great emphasis on the different social skills and expectations of the different socio-economic levels. She points out that schools are a middle class institution, and that children from a family that has been in poverty for several ( Read more... )

Science Education in Arkansas

Just out of curiosity, I'd be interested to hear what those who read this think.