Have I ever mentioned that Chris Pennie is the best damn drummer ever ( Read more... )

I just had my last final today for philosophy. Now all I need to do is finish this paper for Education 50, and then the quarter will be extra done (like one of my dad's hamburgers ( Read more... )

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I've decided what my research paper topic will be for my education class. I am going to research the antecedents of the American public education system, with specific reference to the ancient Greek schools and the Puritans.

Boo John Dewey.

Grace.

Jeremy Lott captures my sentiments exactly concerning the looming war with Iraq:

On Iraq, I don't know quite what to say. Could Saddam Hussein be a threat in the future? Yes, I suppose. Will he be? We don't know and we likely won't get the chance to find out. Now that we have the country surrounded and have told the United Nations to go to hell, ( Read more... )

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This article caught my attention as I sifted through CNN today ( Read more... )

I ditched class today and went running instead. I ran to the ARC and worked out, and boy did it feel good. The situps especially.

Otherwise, it has been a slow day. I've been reading Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. It's interesting, to say the least, and it does ring with some truth. However, it suffers from the genetic fallacy. Surely ( Read more... )

So much for winning.

Must......pick.....self.....up.

Press onwards in grace.

Planning for this year's Mexicali trip began yesterday, and I'm not leading it (thankfully). I am going nonetheless, and Watt asked me to be the team captain, which I assented to. This will be my fifth year going down to Cuernavaca.

Same old struggles, but at least now I seem to be winning.

Grace.

I love this country for several reasons: the material prosperity it has afforded its inhabitants, the relative security it provides, and the generous liberty it defends, among others, the liberty to worship God as I would see fit. Chalk it up to the Lord's wonderful providence that out of the all the places I could have been born, He placed me here ( Read more... )