Category: Asides

So much truth in just three pan­els…

Dil­bert com­ic strip for 11/22/2012 from the offi­cial Dil­bert com­ic strips archive.

The Offi­cial Dil­bert Web­site fea­tur­ing Scott Adams Dil­bert strips, ani­ma­tion, mashups and more star­ring Dil­bert, Dog­bert, Wal­ly, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dog­bert’s New Rul­ing Class and mor…

This is real­ly quite star­tling to think about.

All in One Lit­tle Life­time: All Gone with the Wind

A reflec­tion by a great 20th cen­tu­ry jour­nal­ist on the var­i­ous empires and rulers he has seen rise and fall in his lifetime—and who remains stand­ing at the end.A reflec­tion by a great 20th cen­tu­ry j…

I some­times teach as an adjunct for the Assem­blies of God The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary, and I must con­fess that I hate assign­ing grades. This essay is a help­ful reflec­tion on the noble task of eval­u­a­tion.

Grad­ing as Truth-Telling | John G. Stack­house, Jr.

A false bal­ance is an abom­i­na­tion to Yhwh, but an accu­rate weight is his delight. (Proverbs 11:1). Grad­ing papers is among the most dif­fi­cult parts, and is cer­tain­ly the least plea­sur­able part, of my …

Some news sto­ries catch you off-guard. This one def­i­nite­ly sur­prised me.

Defin­ing deprav­i­ty down­wards in Deutsch­land

YouTube Pre­view Image. Der Spiegel’s Eng­lish-lan­guage bul­letin reports that con­ser­v­a­tive deputies on the Agri­cul­tur­al Affairs com­mit­tee of the Bun­destag have intro­duced leg­is­la­tion ban­ning sex with an…

My ques­tion is the first one. That’s right — I’m an inter­net big shot now. Feel free to tell peo­ple you knew me when.

Freako­nom­ics » How to Get the Best out of Col­lege? Your Ques­tions Answered

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We host­ed Anne Cross­man, one of the authors of this book, on cam­pus for a talk on max­i­miz­ing the col­lege expe­ri­ence. She did a great job. This should be a good Q & A.

Freako­nom­ics » How to Get the Best out of Col­lege? Bring Your Ques­tions

“Our argu­ment is that most stu­dents focus on get­ting into col­lege, but do not focus ade­quate­ly on get­ting out of col­lege. They coast, or make bad deci­sions, or sim­ply fail to take full advan­tage of wh…

Heh: “the case for epis­temic humil­i­ty remains wor­thy of your atten­tion.”

The world we live in

Both of these arti­cles are from this evening’s New York Times: U.S. to Be World’s Top Oil Pro­duc­er in 5 Years, Report Says and: Text Mes­sag­ing Declines in U.S. for First Time, Report Says Fur…

Lin­coln once said, “I don’t like to hear cut-and-dried ser­mons. No–when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fight­ing bees.” Love the image. 

Book Explores Abra­ham Lin­col­n’s ‘Bat­tle With God’

– “Lin­col­n’s Bat­tle with God: A Pres­i­den­t’s Strug­gle with Faith and What it Meant for Amer­i­ca” (Thomas Nel­son), by Stephen Mans­field He has pre­vi­ous­ly explored the faith of Barack Oba­ma and George W…

Para­graph 7: “When you are a pro­fes­sion­al artist, mean­ing that you are mak­ing a liv­ing off your work, you do learn to say good bye to your work every day.  That is what it means to be mak­ing a liv­ing.  A friend recent­ly told me that this is sim­i­lar to a farmer not get­ting too attached to ani­mals that will be slaugh­tered.  Not a pleas­ant thought, but appro­pri­ate, some­how, as the art is feed­ing us, and my attach­ment can­not be too deep either.”

Mako­to Fujimu­ra | Sandy, Gold­en Sea and Dil­lon Gallery

When I spoke at the last IAM gath­er­ing on “Cul­ture Care,” I referred to the com­ing par­a­digm shift for the gal­leries of Chelsea. I paint­ed a rather gloomy pic­ture. Nev­er did I imag­ine then the cat­a­stro…

Impres­sive: “A new study by Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty pro­fes­sors shows that it is vaster than per­haps any­one imag­ined, with 39,900 active for-prof­it com­pa­nies that can trace their begin­nings to Stan­ford. In addi­tion to found­ing busi­ness­es, Stan­ford grad­u­ates have also cre­at­ed some 30,000 non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tions. In fact, there are so many busi­ness­es with Stan­ford roots that if they formed an inde­pen­dent coun­try, their com­bined rev­enue of $2.7 tril­lion annu­al­ly would make it the 10th-largest econ­o­my in the world, gen­er­at­ing an esti­mat­ed 5.4 mil­lion jobs since the 1930s…”

Stan­ford grad­u­ates have enor­mous impact

[…] there are so many busi­ness­es with Stan­ford roots that if they formed an inde­pen­dent coun­try, their com­bined rev­enue of $2.7 tril­lion annu­al­ly would make it the 10th-largest econ­o­my in the world,…