My Principles of Animal Behavior class is a wonderfully insightful class. While I was studying for the Final Exam that I have in there tomorrow, I came across the table about the costs and benefits of social living. Maybe someone will find it interesting. If nothing else it’s smirk inducing when we consider topics about [...]
By: Barry Belmont
This is an article by Lewis Grossberger over at True/Slant. It was just too good… A day in the life of Obama (as envisioned by a typical Republican) 6:30 AM: Obama awakened by clock radio tuned to NPR’s popular morning drive-time show, Kronsky the Bomb Thrower and His Anarcho-Syndicalist Zoo. “You know what would be fun?” [...]
25Feb10
Owning your image
By: Mary Hunton
Let’s consider a scenario. You are a photographer. You own your camera, all of your camera equipment, as well as the studio you take pictures in, the computer you utilize to edit and refine said pictures, and the printer and paper that play the role of producing those pictures for your portfolio, projects, and pleasure. [...]
6Feb10
OM NOM NOM
By: John Russell
As I was buying bacon at WinCo to make this for the big game, I couldn’t help but notice the people in front of me with 3 shopping carts full of food totaling over 450 dollars… all paid for by food stamps. I’m all for people workin’ the system (as the post tomorrow will indicate), [...]
By: Barry Belmont
26Jan10
Responsibility: Easy as A, B, C?
By: Barry Belmont
One of my favorite authors is a man named, Raymond Smullyan who is best known for his Alice in Wonderland approach to logic. He turns recursivity back upon itself and makes even the notion of a paradox paradoxical. Among his simplest riddles is the one below which I think would make a great exercise for [...]
3Jan10
Little Flight Lies.
By: Barry Belmont
There are quite a few of us who have flown here and there during these past couple of weeks. With the recent terrorist attacks, not to mention the more infamous ones, who among us have not worried (if only slightly) about the possibility of our plane going down in a blaze of terroristic glory? Hopefully [...]
