I cut my own hair, and my son’s hair. Luckily I do it in the privacy of my own home. Iowa firemen have been ordered to stop barbering on duty because their “taking away a livelihood from professionals who are trying to make a living”. (From The Corner)
How did they do it? By striking down a law banning private medical insurance. New York Times
Kitchen Table Math is a blog/wiki about doing math with your children.
One thing that caught my eye was a Russian textbook example: “Two cars leave simultaneously at 9 a.m. heading toward one another from different cities that are 210 km apart. The average speed of one car is 50 km/h while the other car averages 70 km/h. Come up with an appropriate question and answer it.”
The Bush dynasty can live on for ever. The Corner got an email that calculated 72 years of Bush.
That is just how the corner put it in describing Matt Dowd’s NBA contract. Bloomberg has an article with all the details but suffice it to say you can be cool and in politics too!
Well, supposedly it has happened. Deep Throat has come out in the open. According to an article on MSNBC it is W. Mark Felt, though Woodward and Bernstein will not confirm nor deny. They claim to keep their promise and not release the source until the source dies. If it is true, it is weird to have the infamous “Deep Throat” unmasked. I am young enough that there has always been a Deep Throat. It wasn’t until just a couple years ago I found out what Deep Throat was named for;). (I cling to my few vestigies of naiveness). Well, on to a new era I suppose…..
The Corner called this “The President holds an excess embryo”. I don’t know the story behind the picture but how can anything that produces this not be considered life? I am 29 weeks pregnant right now and I can feel this baby roll, kick and hiccup.I have had a few ultrasounds and have been able to count his fingers and his vertebrae. This is life….
I saw this posting on the Corner on abortion and future pregnancy. After going into early labor with my last baby, I can’t imagine knowingly taking that risk. There is research out there that it is bad for women and now on future babies… One of the biggest justification I have ever heard for abortion is “it just isn’t the right time for a baby” or “later when I am ready”. Now it seems that women who use this as a tool to control their reproduction really aren’t in control. It just furthers the old addage…”Make up you mind before the windows get steamed up”.
Well I figure it is time for my first post;). I saw this great post on slashdot on Mathematicians in Hollywood. I thought of my best friend Sara and all the things we could have done if we got our Math degrees. Who knew we could be in Hollywood and perhaps even cool;)! I am sure that in the future my posts will be much more insightful and deep:).
How many more must die before Kofi quits?:
“If blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. Or else get weapons. Your lives are worth so much less than theirs.” – Dr Andrew Thomson
The article is written by former UN human rights lawyer Kenneth Cain, who co-authored Emergency Sex (and Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone with the quoted Dr. Thomson.