Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 30th, 2006
New Orleans
NOLA Checklist:
Reading material for the ride to New Orleans (Douglas Brinkley’s The Great Deluge, Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, and Bruce Metzenger’s Introduction to the Apocrypha)
Air mattress and sleeping bag
Old clothes that I may never wear again
Work boots
Toothbrush
Digital camera and laptop
Swiss Army knife
Extra energy
The prayers of my friends and family
I’m going back to New Orleans [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Louisiana, New Orleans, West Side, disaster relief by ME
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Harding Honors Symposium 2006
This is the part of my summer when things really start getting hectic for me. Last night, I taught my first class at Harding’ Honors Symposium and now I’m on my way back to Conway for a few more days of AGS before we take a holiday break.
Tomorrow afternoon, I’m leaving Searcy with some friends [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Honors Symposium, college by ME
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Why Teaching at AGS is the Coolest Thing in the World (#4)
I get to meet Phyllis Schlafly.
If you’ve never heard of Phyllis Schlafly, you’re probably under the age of 40 or slept through most of the 1980s.
Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum in 1972 and has published the Phyllis Schlafly Report since 1967 (I’m holding a big stack of them in the photo). She is largely responsible [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in AGS, Phyllis Schlafly, conservatives, courts by ME
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Thanks, Senator Pryor
Did you know that reported incidents of burning the American flag up by a full 33% last year?
The number of incidents increased from 3 to 4. I double-checked that figure with some math majors just to be sure. It did go up 33 percent.
But it still is hardly grounds for amending the constitution to [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Arkansas, Mark Pryor, constitution, flags by ME
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Oh, Say Can You Make a “B”?
As we approach the anniversary of our nation’s independence (that’s on July 4, by the way) it’s time to sort out the real Americans from the faux Americans.
Just knowing all of the words to the Pledge of Allegiance and the fact that George Washington had wooden teeth won’t cut it anymore. Our nation expects more [...]
18 Comments » - Posted in America, immigration, tests by ME
Tuesday, June 27th, 2006
Search ME
If you’ve stumbled across my blog in the last month or so, you may have been looking for one of these exciting terms.
Is it really possible that can’t get bail in Louisiana if you are arrested for indecent exposure?
“bad parents” bible
“harding university” and “liberal”
nancy grace blooper
bad people in Greek mythology
kukluxklan.com
talitha koum in Hebrew
clowns for christ [...]
No Comments » - Posted in blogging, search ME by ME
Monday, June 26th, 2006
Bisonvision
Hot off the presses from the Harding Sports Information office.
Even though it’s way too early and too warm to be thinking about college football in Arkansas.
Mark your calendars anyway.
Harding Football to Appear Twice on GSC Television Package
SEARCY – The Harding University football team will be featured twice on the Gulf South Conference’s television package during [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in college, football by ME
Monday, June 26th, 2006
Bueller? Bueller?
I hate went this happens. First I find out that conservative icons like William F. Buckley and Bill O’Reilly agree with me about the war in Iraq. Now it turns out that my favorite conservative economist-turned-actor, Ben Stein, agrees with me about the deficit and taxes.
In this op-ed piece in the New York Times (sorry, [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Ben Stein, deficit, economics by ME
Saturday, June 24th, 2006
This Week’s Sign of the Impending Apocalypse (#34)
Animal rights protesters have successfully forced the closing of the Fangji Cat Meatball restaurant in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
This was not a restaurant that served cats meatballs — it was a restaurant that served cat meatballs.
The organizers of the protest, part of China’s growing animal rights community, said that while there were no [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in cats, food, the Apocalypse by ME
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Why Teaching at AGS is the Coolest Thing in the World (#3)
I get to discuss René Descartes’ Discourse on Method with my students.
By this point in AGS, my students are starting to express some concern that nothing is real. This may be partially my fault, because I keep asking them how they “know” things in an effort to teach them something about epistemology. René Descartes’ seems [...]
