1. Last weekend Phoenix had a massive used book sale. I got in on Sunday (when everything was half-price) and got out with at least ten or twelve books for under forty dollars, including a three-quarters complete set of Douglas Southhall Freeman's definitive biography of Robert E. Lee (it's missing volume one, but I figured … Continue reading Saturday Sundry: Jefferson Davis and Some Education Thoughts
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Friday Flotsam: Box Office, Generational Lag, Education
1. Dipping into box office news, I'm glad to see that the lingering waste product of a failed and canceled franchise starring a violent lunatic is failing hard at the box office, despite the desperate presence of an overpaid relic from the days of comparative cultural confidence. Likewise the latest offering of the studio that … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Box Office, Generational Lag, Education
Re-Post: Bullying Yard Sale
Typically insightful piece from Joseph Moore of Yard Sale of the Mind: Question: how did we all get so inured to bullying so described, such that probably a good 70% of us just go along no matter what. How did we come to even try to put up with bullying, rather than fighting back at … Continue reading Re-Post: Bullying Yard Sale
Quote of the Day: Dorothy Sayers
"For we let our young men and women go out unarmed, in a day when armour was never so necessary."-Dorothy Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning
Serpent's Den 