I’m picking up my new MINI, tomorrow! I spent the weekend at a cousin’s wedding, hence the gap in posts. This week should be better. In other news, I got a new Palm LifeDrive, Friday; it is one cool peice of gadgetry. Given my Palm-dependent lifestyle and the age and memory capacity of my old […]
My MINI is sitting at the dealer, only a couple hours from here, but I’m going to have to wait until Tuesday to pick it up! Bummer. Note: blogging hiatus coming up – I’m going to an out-of-town wedding, tomorrow.
The NCAA has banned Indian names and mascots at postseason events. One question: if a given people group (tribe, in this case) is not offended by the use of its name and/or likeness by a college athletic department, but outsiders without any ties to that group deem the group’s name, itself, to be “hostile or
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Everyone should take at least a quick tour through this site: Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files. We all need a logical check-up, from time to time.
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I saw a show, last night, that reminded me why I would make a very poor cultural anthropologist. It was about the Zo’é people, also known as the Poturu, a tribe of about 160 in Brazil, near the headwaters of some Amazon River tributaries. They were unknown in the West until 1987.