July 2011
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You know how sometimes you run across a news story that is simultaneously surprising and not surprising? You can't quite believe people could do wrong so boldly and persistently, and yet on some level you aren't really surprised. Well, the story of Atlanta teachers cheating on their students' standardized tests is one of those for…
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Sunday Night Journal — July 3, 2011 (I was going to write about something else today, but this is something I’ve been thinking about, and it’s appropriate for Independence Day, so I think I’ll go ahead and get it out of the way.) The term “culture war” in this country generally refers to the conflict…
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Craig Burrell has a fascinating review of a book called The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages. It's really an essay on the subject, so expect to spend more time with it than you would on the average blog post, but well worth it. In the comments on any controversial religion-related topic at the…
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Sounds interesting. Not that I need another Internet distraction.
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Weekend Music I've mentioned the eMusic and Amazon free mp3s of which I've collected quite a few. This is one of those. A couple of days ago I was listening, on my way to work, to a fairly random collection of stuff having in common only that I had obtained it around the same time…
Light On Dark Water 