January 2012
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I’m a Barnes & Noble Man
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1 min read
Here’s one of the reasons I have a Nook. Because it is from Barnes & Noble and not Amazon.
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Ranting Grammarians
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4 min read
I really like Lynne Truss. Her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves is one of my favorite books ever. I’d like to think that would be so even if I hadn’t majored in English. The book itself is one big rant on behalf of better grammar. She is militant, persuasive, and funny. And that seems to…
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Good Enough Isn’t
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3 min read
My wife and I don’t watch home improvement shows that often, but occasionally, we’ll have HGTV on for most the afternoon, forgetting that it isn’t really our cup of tea. I got sucked into a couple of episodes of a show about flipping houses. Again, not my thing, but at the time it was strangely…
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Screw the Pope
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1 min read
Seriously. Maybe that’s the problem. Any takers? No? I don’t blame you. It would be one thing if he looked like Sean Connery, but the man really does look like his given name was Ratzinger. You’ve already heard about his circular logic that homosexuality is destroying marriage, an argument that seems lifted directly from the…
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Redefining Best
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4 min read
Now that the college football season is over, we can all agree on which team is best, can’t we? Well…no. We can’t. There is no mechanism for defining “best“. Only the champions. In some sports, best and champion are the same thing. In sprinting, for instance, world records, repeating accomplishments, multiple races among the elite several…
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Is a Dead 1st Grader Enough Incentive To Change?
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4 min read
My wife didn’t say anything. I walked into the living room and saw on my phone that she had tweeted this: [tweet https://twitter.com/#!/DownsRose/status/155839622402945025] What? I said. She looked at me and said That is my worst nightmare. She read parts of the news story. She was 7. They had an action plan. She authorized Benadryl, but…