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Free the Princess reviews Mainspring
Dan Dos Santos nominated for a Chesley Award for the cover of my book Green — Go Dan!
Dead Ox Flat: 1939 — A photo from Malheur County, Oregon. If you have any French, you’ll appreciate the name.
Face in Space — Ok, this is cool.
Scientists Find 5,500-Year-Old Preserved Shoe In Cave — So that’s what I did with it…
The Secret Powers of Time — How people perceive, and live inside their perceptions, of time. Not sure the religious angle is utterly helpful, and there’s definitely a “oi these kids today” angle, but still interesting. (Via Freakonomics.)
Teachers have a right to free speech, too — Intolerance of diversity has become a bit of a personal issue for me in the last year or so, therefore this story strikes home in more ways than the obvious.
SMBC on Britain’s treatment of Alan Turing
Non Sequitur twits the Tea Party again — And nicely so.
Hispanics flee Arizona ahead of immigration law — Move along, citizen. Nothing to see here.
Saudi Clerics Advocate Adult Breast-Feeding — Unlawful mixing between the sexes is taken very seriously in Saudi Arabia. In March 2009, a 75-year-old Syrian widow, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, living in the city of Al-Chamil, was given 40 lashes and sentenced to six months in prison after the religious police learned that two men who were not related to her were in her house, delivering bread to her. And people wonder why I’m an atheist. (Thanks, I think, to
George W. Bush, Torture President — I am shocked, shocked to find gambling going on here. Also, this just in: sun rises in east.
?otD: Do you have your own private time zone?
6/10/2010
Writing time yesterday: n/a (chemo exhaustion)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 9.5 (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: 227.2
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 7/10 (sleepless night)
Currently (re)reading: The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
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Jay, it’s been my experience that intolerance swings full circle, depending on which part of the country you’re in. What’s basically happening is that large groups of Americans and American parents — left and right — are deciding that they cannot stand it if anyone is exposing their children to a political or social or ethical paradigm that contradicts that of the home of origin.
My personal opinion is that children will be exposed to “contradictory” politics, views, etc, regardless of what happens, and that the job of parent — beyond establishing basic norms of decency and civility — is not to overtly control the eventual formation of their child’s political paradigm. If teenaged experience is any indicator, parents that are “hard line” on this will have teens who are reactive to the same degree.
For parents who live in fear of teachers’ opinions, I have to wonder: how much time are those parents spending, at home, walking the talk? A child will learn or pick up the beliefs of the parents 10 times more quickly if the parents are walking the talk, than if the parents are absentee, contradictory, or otherwise checked out.
But then, I think parents being “checked out” is a whole blog post unto itself, and I won’t belabor that problem here.