2016-03-19 18:53
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The home of a diehard Red Sox fan, Air Force veteran, moderate/progressive educator with lots of opinions and little sense.
2016-03-19 18:53
Reason magazine's science correspondent, Ron Bailey, has a great article up on the effort of the FDA and certain social conservative groups to regulate not only drugs, but morality. Recently… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I have previously posted something of a diatribe/self-pity party about my ongoing experiences in education. While things have certainly improved and I am over my yearly funk, I am still rath… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
So, anything new going on in the world of the Red Sox? Hmmm...should be a quiet off-season. It's only been a year since we won the World Series, after all. How bad could things be?Really?Dam… Read More
2005-11-04 20:13
Amy Sullivan has an interesting column up over at Beliefnet that wonders just what may be coming down the pike in the future for the Supreme Court (assuming that Alito wins confirmation). Ne… Read More
2005-10-16 05:07
From a discussion I had in a seminar on democracy. It holds some truth, I think, though it is perhaps a bit rambling:In reading the print media and in discussions with fellow students on the… Read More
2005-10-10 19:20
I'm sorry. I can't help but picture Kevin Drum tapping his fingers together and looking very Burns-like as he wrote the post below. I added a sound effect for, well, effect. :)From the Washi… Read More
2005-10-10 18:55
As an active duty veteran of the Air Force, I am proud of my military service and proud of those who continue to serve in uniform stateside and in theater. I encourage my students to join th… Read More
2005-10-10 18:23
From the Telegraph by way of Reason:It seems that Unicef has begun a new antiwar campaign, emphasizing the impact on children.Philippe Henon, a spokesman for Unicef Belgium, said his agency… Read More
2005-10-10 18:02
So I guess it's time to focus on the Patriots.Damn Graffanino. He fields that groundball and we at least do not get swept. I almost got thrown out of freaking Alehouse for cursing at the TV… Read More
2005-10-10 17:57
So it is perhaps time to give props to the Catholic Church, church of my forefathers and source of much supression of knowledge and science in the not-so-distant past. Recently, it seems, th… Read More
2005-10-10 17:52
Hi! Well, it's been great fun so far this year, being a full-time doctoral student as well as a full-time high school teacher. And of course, my wife has been gone almost 6 weeks writing ins… Read More
2005-09-24 14:36
So it seems that the best way to educate some children in the principles of Christian faith, forgiveness of sin, and all of that stuff is to expel them from school for the supposed sins of t… Read More
2005-09-16 18:01
Sometimes, I wake up in the morning, and I cry. There are times when I want to just quit, to walk out the door and say, ‘So long, and thanks for all the fish.’ These are the days… Read More
2005-09-04 17:17
Regular readers of FloridaBlues and, really, the whole bloggerverse, are aware that there are enough villians in the cock-up that is New Orleans to fill a Flash Gordon movie. This post is no… Read More
2005-08-31 19:28
All of these people are going to hell. All of them. Where is their humanity? Who loots a freaking hospital?????????????????Brutal thoughts cross my mind when I read that. Shoot them all Read More
2005-08-31 12:07
Wesley R. Elsberry, in response to my earlier post about Florida's new chancellor, informs us that he is leading an effort to defend science in Florida. His comment:"I am working on organizi… Read More
2005-08-31 11:54
John Derbyshire of National Review, not my favorite person, has an excellent piece up that trashes the idea that schools should teach Intelligent Design. He argues, basically, that if scienc… Read More
2005-08-30 12:51
Via Pharyngula, I see that Florida gets the lovely Cheri Yecke as the new K-12 Chancellor. This is not a good omen for education in the state. You see, Cheri Yecke wishes to 'avoid' the cont… Read More
2005-08-20 21:26
I am scheduled as a guest on the Jay Diamond Show, from 7 to 9 on WRKO in Boston, along with my FloridaBlues co-blogger Gatorchick. No idea what it will be like, but I hope it goes well. She… Read More
2005-08-20 21:22
John Cole links to this catalog for women. Like all fashion catalogs, it features attractive models wearing the latest in swimwear. Unlike most fashion catalogs, however, it is Saudi Arabian… Read More
2005-08-20 20:53
So, Governor Taft demonstrates yet again that the rules do not apply to the Republican Party. Perhaps part of his punishment should be to, oh, I don't know, invest in rare coins. If it was a… Read More
2005-08-19 19:46
In today's Gainesville Sun, a letter to the editor by someone named Robert Ausband attempts to claim intelligent design as a legitimate scientific endeavor rather than crank science. I wrote… Read More
2005-08-19 12:12
And so the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip continues, and it seems to have been a quicker task than the Israeli government expected. It has not been without difficulties however. From… Read More
2005-08-19 11:42
Well, I just thought that I would share with the appreciative audience of this blog some of the fine intellectual thinking from our friends over at the kinist Reconstructionist blog, Little… Read More
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