The black male teacher shortage:
If there is no solution, is there, in fact, a problem?
Monthly Archives: July 2023
Hate speech is normally protected.
That’s the law.
Accordingly, this speech I just heard a mother direct to her one-year old:
“Shut the fuck up. Yo’ little punk ass always cryin’ an shit.”
First point: Do I have a right to be offended by that? Do I have a right to say it offends me?
Second point: Look at the exact words used. As with many people I meet from day to day, the words they use indicate conclusively that their lives revolve around their privates.
Related: The Word of the Day
Related: The self-loving reptile
Originally posted 2016-04-04.
There was no Rome?
Most of the issues I confront involve people believing things with no evidence.
This person instead denies the evidence that is, most concretely, there. Continue reading There was no Rome?
Names with issues; Issues with names
Interspecies friendships
I’m not sure how I’ll do this. Most of these videos come from FaceBook, and it’s difficult to download or link them.
No safe space for little boys
“Dancing with a stranger”
Sunday 04/16/23: Everything changed this morning.
Why Christians believe
A new thread at Messiah Truth.
This is most emphatically not Jewish teaching. I expect it correctly to be condemned as not-Jewish. I also expect it to be condemned, correctly or not, as just plain wrong.
The point is to facilitate understanding of what motivates belief in the Christian myth.
Sunday was Palm Sunday. The appointed “Gospel” text this year was Luke 22:14-23:56, which covers from the beginning of the Last Supper up to Jesus’ burial.
The pastor normally reads the “Gospel” lesson. Pastor’s voice quavered throughout this reading, which I found hard to figure since his beliefs are similar enough to mine. We waded through all the problems in the text, e.g. the impossible trial at the High Priest’s house on Pesach. But I also got re-acquainted with why Christians believe so fervently in this text.
Podcast — Still paused.
I have not had the Net access I need to record an episode this month.
My laptop got damaged. Then it got repaired. Then it got stolen.
Strange cosmology
Archbishop: Catholics must do penance after Proposal 3 approved (freep.com)
That’s not exactly what he said.
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