The pure, the bright, the beautiful ( Read more... )

...im Leben eines Kindes hat das Banale Größe, es ist fremd, ohne Ordnung, immer tragisch. Auch ein Kind hat nie Feierabend als Kind; erst, wenn die "Ordnungsprinzipien" angenommen werden, fängt der Feierabend an...

~Heinrich Böll, Ansichten eines Clowns

Clay Aiken? Is a raging homosexual.

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WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN ( Read more... )

As I mentioned yesterday, I am going to focus this blog more on relating moral theory to action. The first action that I would recommend is to oppose acts that lead to the possibility of a Palin presidency. A person with good desires and true and complete beliefs would be adamantly opposed to any action that would put Palin a heartbeat away from ( Read more... )

Playing Scattergories tonight, an opponent tried to get two points for "equality equations", which I promptly shot down for being mathematically and linguistically redundant. Apparently some teachers actually use that term to contrast with "inequality equations", which I was taught in no uncertain terms is a contradiction in terms: if it has an ( Read more... )

My first real review

Dear Friends ( Read more... )

This morning I drove to Carrollton, GA to compete in state NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) student auditions. On the way, Smitha accidentally threw the directions, parking pass, and schedule out the window...luckily we were still on surface roads so she was able to hop out and rescue them ( Read more... )

Welcome Morning
There is joy
in all:
in the hair I brush each morning,
in the Cannon towel, newly washed,
that I rub my body with each morning,
in the chapel of eggs I cook
each morning,
in the outcry from the kettle
that heats my coffee
each morning,
in the spoon and the chair
that cry 'hello there, Anne'

each morning,
in the godhead of the table
that I set my ( Read more... )