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The Christian Humanist Podcast- Episode 77: Great Book, Rotten Movie
- Episode 76.3: Red States and Blue States
- Episode 76.2: The Brothers Karamazov
- Episode 76.1: The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
- Episode 76: Autobiography
- Episode 75: Ante-Dante
- Episode 74: The Documentary Hypothesis
- Episode 73: Patience
- Episode 72: Valor
- Episode 71: Humility
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Amazing what Operational Hardware Does
For the last year or so I’ve been experiencing problems with my laptop–sometimes I had to turn the computer off for the battery to charge, and other times I had to boot it up, plug it in, then turn it … Continue reading
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I’d Never Win a Presidential Election 4: I Don’t Speak in a Washington Dialect
I’ve already batted this back and forth with my friends and fellow-bloggers Farmer and with El Ick with regards to abortion policy, but I repeat that I refuse to call myself pro-life or pro-choice.? As far as I can tell, … Continue reading
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Ph.D Comics Hits a Triple
Undergradese I don’t know what to say that the comic doesn’t say better, so enjoy!
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I’d Never Win a Presidential Election 3: I’m Overweight
I’m not one of those people to blame the world for this: I know that I eat what I shouldn’t, and plenty of it. I also know that, when my alarm goes off at 5:00 or before every morning, I’m … Continue reading
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I’d Never Win a Presidential Election 2: I Like my Job
The question that nobody asked out loud (at least not that I heard) when John McCain, with only a few weeks left in the campaign season, returned to Washington to stir up the Congress before they voted on the $700 … Continue reading
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I’d Never Win a Presidential Election 1: I Write a Blog
I figure that, with less than a month before people cast ballots, I’d do a gimmick series, a ten-part series on why I’d never win a presidential election, even if I decided to run, being the requisite 35 years old, … Continue reading
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Against Democracy, 2008 Tour
I seem to get a little less fiery each time I play Plato during this lesson.? I don’t know whether I’m just going soft or whether I’ve got more genuine pedagogical motives, but even without the grand pyrotechnics, Plato’s offensive … Continue reading
Posted in Plato, teaching
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Fish Misses the Point
But most of the comments on the piece get it. Politics and the Pulpit (Once Again) Stanley Fish, who is usually quite careful in his treatment of First Amendment questions, took his eye off the ball in this one.? When … Continue reading
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Allegory of the Cave Day
We finally got to the most famous passage in Plato today, and I drew my now-well-rehearsed version of the Allegory of the Cave on the board for each group.? (It didn’t look nearly as cool as this picture.)? In 8:00 … Continue reading
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Hardly the Last… Palavra?
I was looking at my site history between papers (halfway there–a solid afternoon tomorrow and a healthy Wednesday, and I should be done), and apparently somebody submitted one of my posts to a Google translator program to read it in … Continue reading
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Revisiting my Childhood Cowboys
Having finished The Wire and The Sopranos and Deadwood and Rome and still waiting on the next seasons of Galactica and Lost to hit DVD, I talked Mary into watching the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove, based on Larry McMurtry’s novel.? … Continue reading
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Bill Moyers Gets Moral in your Business
Rage on the Radio I really wish the piece hadn’t focused so hard on the crazy man who shot up the Unitarian church: that’s a red herring, and it makes the real moral force of this piece harder to get … Continue reading
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Educating for Questions
Listening to Berkley’s podcasted Introduction to Astronomy course the other day (I’m up to the midpoint of the semester and as far out as Jupiter), I finally started to understand Neil Postman’s more common riffs about education, namely that question-asking … Continue reading
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No, I didn’t watch last night either
I do plan on reading the transcript. I wish I could say that my not watching the first two debates is some kind of Neil Postman-style protest against the silliness of televised politics, but in reality it stems more from … Continue reading
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War, Sex, Women’s Nature, and Other Fun Stuff
I forgot to write about yesterday’s class yesterday–I suppose I must have had too much on my mind. At the point in the dialogue that we read yesterday, Socrates’s interlocutors break off the big-picture argument and demand that he expand … Continue reading
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I Want to Be This Sort of Professor
The Thinker I ran into this little piece on ALDaily, and it reminded me once more that what I’m doing, if I stick to doing it, is a worthwhile way to spend what years I’ve got left breathing air.? The … Continue reading
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Pay Up or Shut Up
Pulpit Free Sunday Yeesh.? This just strikes me as silly.? We Christians hold up our martyr forebears because they underwent fire and sword and gladiatorial arenas to proclaim the truth, but these ninnies are scared to death of paying their … Continue reading
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