Author: dawn

Fascinating: Amerigo Vespucci or Richard Amerike?

Vote: Is this: a) hilarious b) scary Link via Ipse Dixit

Terry Gross is interviewing James Reston, Jr. today on NPR’s Fresh Air. Mr. Reston has recently written a book called Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade. This interview is fascinating within the context of current events, hopefully it’ll be posted within the next day or so. I don’t know…

Chris O’Donnell linked to this essay about homeschooling. I agree with him that this is an excellent article. One thing, though, that bothers me is an argument that is always used in these types of essays about America’s schools and scores vs. international scores. America’s scores on these standardized tests are based on practically the…

Honey, I guess we need to see Blade Runner sometime: This link is via lots of places, I just wanted to get in on the act 🙂 … (I have seen Blade Runner, it has just been about 10 years and I don’t remember it well)

I’m guessing you already knew this, but Paulo is back! Yay!

It seems that Jonah Goldberg has a mildly optimistic attitude about Enterprise.

Well, the Mute Trubadour posted his Myers-Briggs Personality Type: INTJ. Mine is E or I NFP. I pretty much split right down the middle of the Extrovert and Introvert qualifications. What is interesting is Human Resource Professionial is a career option for both. If you don’t know your type there is a basic test on…

OK, I’m losing my mind trying to fix my permalinks. I thought they were fixed, but they aren’t. When I hover over the word “link” in the posted by line with my mouse, I see the permalink with a blog # in the status bar at the bottom of my browser. However, when I click…

I have rarely gotten the opportunity to see The West Wing because we have Bible Study on Wednesdays. Despite the Democratic/Liberal leanings of the “Bartlett Administration,” when I have seen the show, I’ve kind of enjoyed it. I wanted to see last night’s Isaac and Ishmael episode to see how they’d handle the situation. When…