Monkey versus Robot

So many of today's problem boil down this fundamental conflict...




This blog decidedly stands with Monkey.

Tebow Mania

Ok, I know I shouldn't, but I'm going to indulge myself in a little Tebow Mania.

It's really funny how the football experts and analysts continue to insist that Tebow doesn't have a future.

Really? He's already clearly better than:

Matt Moore
Kevin Kolb
Tavaris Jackson
Christian Ponder
Blaine Gabbert

and he will get injured a lot less than:

Colt McCoy
Sam Bradford
& Michael Vick. 

Tebow will definitely have a job in the NFL as a quarterback.

New Online Journal

Humanum

Here's a new online journal dealing with Family, Culture and Science. The first issue deals with the child and has several interesting articles and book reviews.

Article Published in HPR

A version of the talk I gave at a conference for diocesan and parish educators at Catholic University in 2010 was just published in Homiletic and Pastoral Review.

National debt now over GDP

Is this real? We owe more than the whole country can generate in a year?

Article

Your Tax Dollars

Your tax dollars, almost $500 million, goes to Planned Parenthood.

Article

 

This is where public education is going

K12 Inc, based in Virginia, is the largest virtual K to 12 school in the country. Here are a series of articles about how they are scamming states and the public:
Scamming States
Big Money in Virtual Ed
Rapid Rise of Virtual Ed

Cursive is key mental training

As society quickly moves away from paper to screens and from pens and pencils to buttons and stylus', some people are realizing what we are losing. Here's an interesting Wall Street Journal article that links writing, especially cursive writing, with valuable mental abilities.

Many school systems are dropping cursive writing entirely.

Vension

I butchered a deer for the first time a few weeks ago. One of the things that made it easy was that it was a good a clean kill. After gutting and skinning, I just cut the backstraps off and quartered the young doe.

I aged the cuts in a cooler for a week. Then I marinated a hindquarter in buttermilk for 4 days (froze the rest). Then we roasted it for 1 1/2 hrs, sliced it and panfried the slices in Montreal steak seasoning.

It was delicious--less gamy than lamb. My wife was very skeptical of the whole endeavor, but she was happily shocked with the result.