I (finally!) finished Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink". I started out feeling like it was going to be an amazing book - and it got more underwhelming as time went on and the little anecdotes didn't connect to make the tapestry I thought would be coming any page. Let me spell out what I got out of the book in a sentence or two: People can make amazing ( Read more... )

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Ha ha! What did Obama do to deserve the Nobel Prize, again?

Hope doesn't count. If I graded my students on "hope" or potential to change the world I'd have a bunch of A+ students that couldn't add two fractions together. Potential <> actualization ( Read more... )

Whew, Chicago dodged a bullet on that one. No, I'm not talking about what's been going on at Chicago Public Schools lately - I'm talking about wasting its time bulldozing poor people's houses to let a couple of swimmers beat each other by .001 seconds ( Read more... )

I woke up maybe 5 minutes ago from one of those dreams which compels someone to action. Last time this happened to me I started up my Facebook. This time there's really not much I can do except write about it ( Read more... )

While I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't look like anything's going to happen with the health care bill I can't say the Democrats did much to help it. Maybe this co-op thing might be better anyways, I'm not sure ( Read more... )

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I'm for health care reform. Probably just about everyone is, really; the question is what should be done about it. I'm not even necessarily against subsidized health care or subsidized insurance. I don't know if I like them but there's a lot of things I like less about the government.

My goal isn't to get into normatives (the government should ( Read more... )

... because I might not be coming back ( Read more... )

Calculus, the Musical