December 10, 2006
Bits and Pieces!
It is early Sunday morning, the stars are still out and the coffee is ready. So, looking around the blogosphere what do we find today?
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Dr. Sanity is up for a Weblog Award "Best Individual Blog" Go and vote for her, she is not only a fellow mental health professional, but one neat lady and a good friend since I started blogging.
Stop The ACLU is also up for an Award "Best of the Top 250 Blogs" Jay is always ready to take down the ACLU for its crazy positions.
And of course, my good friend and fellow Texan Texas Fred is up for Best New Blog Fred has a unique voice (literally as well as figuratively) and has been a guest on GM's Corner on internet radio many times.
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I was recently interviewed by my good friend Jeff Blanco over at Louisiana Conservative. Jeff is a great friend, and was constantly there supporting me in the early fight against cancer. Jeff's blog is a good one to add to your list of must read blogs.
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Cinnamon Stillwell has a terrific post up at her blog concerning the threat of anti-semitism at AMERICAN colleges and universities. Go read!
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I found this over at Mike Austin's The Return of Scipio.
A commander-in-chief who refuses to command. A Congress that is unable to govern. A political class that has lost the will to defeat America’s enemies. An entire subset of our own nation that actively works for her defeat.Posted by GM Roper at December 10, 2006 05:05 AM | TrackBackOf what use is the ballot if the only men who come to power are of this type? We seek Andrew Jacksons yet find only Benedict Arnolds.
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.—C. S. Lewis
GM,
Just read your interview "over" at Louisana Conservative. Great.
Earlier, I read Cinnamon Stillwell's blog and it just reinforces how really awful very many are in the professorate. Note: I tell all my students - REPEATEDLY - that there are two kinds of liars:
1. The one who knows that they're lying. They are out to get something as a resulty of untruths spoken/written.
2. The one that believes he or she is speaking truth but has been either hoodwinked themselves, or is just sloppy and hasn't done enough research.
Thus, I tell my students to NOT necessarily believe what I say. Look it up. Go to mulitple sources for the facts. I sure would not buy a car based on one person's say so. I (we) go to the library and pour over Consumer Reports, Kelly Blue Book and (memory fails)...I think it is Osmund's. At any rate, students remark about the fact that I am the only instructor they've ever had that encouraged them to question what the instructor says.
I suppose there is a 3rd kind of liar. Someone that convinces themselves that their lie is actually the truth. I would guess that you see a lot of these types.
Posted by tad at December 10, 2006 05:21 PM
