Archive for September, 2008

Silence is Deafening

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Whoa. I just read something that I have to share.  First, some context and a little opinion. The microphones of the 2008 presidential elections were turned off about an hour and a half ago.  The debate after the debate continues, with every single news channel going to the panel to decide who ...

Paging Professor Higgins

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen. The rain is Spain stays mainly in the plain. According to his wife, it was Gabriel Pascal who introduced the above phonetic exercises into the musical My Fair Lady.  Speech Professor Herbert Higgins forces poor Eliza Doolittle to endlessly repeat both until she ...

Appearances Can Be Deceptive

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

I just found the coolest video on the web.  I want to share it with you.  I also wanted to be like the cool kids on the block who have videos play on their own website.   But I never was the cool kid on the block, and I don’t know ...

150 Years of Fools

Monday, September 15th, 2008

The Church of England is going to apologize to Charles Darwin.  The church said that Christians repeated the mistake they made when they rejected Galileo’s theory of a heliocentric universe. Interesting. Of course, even though Church of England apologizes, they are only one church.  The Evangelicals of the south and the Intelligent ...