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Romance of Victory: Bankers are All the Same
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Bankers are All the Same. No one, to my knowledge, has remarked that the modern rhetoric about "capitalists" and "one-percenters" and "monopolists" and "big money" is remarkably similar to Medieval denunciations of the Jews - and for the same reason: people with the money inspire resentment, justified or unjustified. Even if it was after all a bit less destructive (except, you know, in Oakland, where they managed to shut down the port briefly). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Romance of Victory: A Psalm for Thanksgiving
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A Psalm for Thanksgiving. On the day established in the United States for giving thanks - to God, for His marvelous providences, and by reasonable extension, to all those we depend on - here are a few of the things I have to be thankful for:. A loving, peaceful family (even if we are scattered across the country): parents who raised me well, siblings who care, and an extended family that has stayed fairly close. A place to live in comfort and security. To Him that stretched out the earth above the waters...
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Romance of Victory: 07/01/2012 - 08/01/2012
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Unlike many members of the educational commentariat, Andrew Hacker, writing the the New York Times. Algebra I would define loosely as the art of manipulating and finding the values of unknown numbers. Two critical ideas in carrying out algebraic operations (by which I mean mathematical manipulation performed on expressions - "clauses", if you will - with variables), can be taught simply and directly from basic arithmetic techniques. In short, I believe the root cause of high school failure is far more li...
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Romance of Victory: 03/01/2013 - 04/01/2013
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For anyone who regularly (or irregularly, rather, considering how uncommonly I post) reads my blog, I have moved the thing over to Wordpress, under the same title. You can find it here. There is also a brief summary of my reasons (for the curious among you) on the new blog's info page. This site will remain up as an archive (unless Google takes it down). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. The Upside of Boredom. Simple theme. Theme images by RBFried.
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Romance of Victory: The Problem With A Secular World
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The Problem With A Secular World. First, please go watch this YouTube video. Linked by Gawker. Read the write-up there, while you're at it. This video clip is just over a minute long. No substantial debate could have been conducted in that time. No link is provided to a transcript, or a longer clip of the interview (testimony before committee, it appears). This tells us we're being shown this material in an attempt to convey, not information, but an impression. What is that concern, anyway? Ever turned i...
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Romance of Victory: 11/01/2012 - 12/01/2012
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A Psalm for Thanksgiving. On the day established in the United States for giving thanks - to God, for His marvelous providences, and by reasonable extension, to all those we depend on - here are a few of the things I have to be thankful for:. A loving, peaceful family (even if we are scattered across the country): parents who raised me well, siblings who care, and an extended family that has stayed fairly close. A place to live in comfort and security. To Him that stretched out the earth above the waters...
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Romance of Victory: Au Revoir
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For anyone who regularly (or irregularly, rather, considering how uncommonly I post) reads my blog, I have moved the thing over to Wordpress, under the same title. You can find it here. There is also a brief summary of my reasons (for the curious among you) on the new blog's info page. This site will remain up as an archive (unless Google takes it down). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The Upside of Boredom. Simple theme. Theme images by RBFried.
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Romance of Victory: And Picking Up Speed
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And Picking Up Speed. My favorite piece of political writing is a poem by Kipling, " The Gods of the Copybook Headings. I do not know his motivation for writing it, but I can hardly imagine it was not intended as political, or at least societal, commentary. I normally post the entire thing before elections, though I did not this year. You can go read the whole thing, but I will excerpt the ending stanzas:. As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man. The government's bailout/buyout of GM has ...
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Romance of Victory: Another One of My Periodic Discourses on Mathematics
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Another One of My Periodic Discourses on Mathematics. I was linked today to this article. By a Dr. Frank Quinn employed by Virginia Polytechnic University. Dr. Quinn outlines a philosophical split among mathematicians about a century ago and discusses its outcomes. He then writes briefly on how the advances made might be introduced into mathematics education with profit. It becomes little more than a convoluted and peculiarly abstract art form, at least to the common understanding. I happen to be att...
