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slacktivist: TF: Bruce's sermon, part 1 "There's a monster at the end of this book. And if the authors succeed at what they've set out to do, that monster is you. That's part of why one should only read these books slowly, in small, weekly doses, while pausing to scream at or mock every page." (…
slacktivist: Our trespasses "But then there's this other phrase which, when we listen to ourselves saying it, is the scariest part of any given Sunday. "Forgive us our trespasses," we pray, "as we forgive those who trespass against us."** That's disturbingly conditional. It's almost contractual.…
What higher education costs § Unqualified Offerings "There's a lot of talk going around about the cost of higher education.  Let's look at some numbers in the state university system here, which focuses on undergraduate education." (tags: academia education economics blogs unqualified-offerings…
Mightygodking.com » Post Topic » Grading every country's national anthem, part one "Burundi. Sounds more like a movie soundtrack than a national anthem - a really awesome movie, though, about African cowboys looking out over the savannah as the sun sets over the elephants, and then maybe they…