Separated at Birth!

My "twins" from the recent NAEA convention in Baltimore. I keep telling my students that there's a "ponytail and goatee" uniform that all male art teachers receive, and now there's proof!

Hooked on Phonics...

A kind-hearted mistake reveals a search for empathy. If only it really were spelled how it sounds...

I Am Here: One Man's Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle

I Am Here: One Man's Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle

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The Vaccine Verdict

There's a new book out, called Denialism, by Michael Specter, which outlines the country's irrational and obstinate denouncement of sound scientific theory in favor of accepted norms. We see it in the fight over global warming (termed "climate change" by those wanting it to sound less threatening) or the new battles over health care; and now I suspect that we'll continue to hear that vaccines are dangerous. Today, the British journal The Lancet retracted its publishing of Andrew Wakefield's findings on the connections between a common childhood vaccine and the onset of Autism. For years, Wakefield has preached his findings to anxious and caring parents of children with Autism worldwide, all the while hiding or downplaying his questionable and unethical research.

I speak, of course, from a non-parent of a child with autism, and I do not want to oversimplify the issues, but I can only imagine the difficulty in accepting one's being taken in by a charlatan like Wakefield. Is it unfair to liken his so-called science to the tonic hawkers of old?

Mmm, what a Delicious Typo

I came across these two menu items at a local restaurant. It made me curious what version of spellcheck was used in putting this listing together.

Why, this IS a great idea!

This concept of the anti-ad is quite the test for having eyes in the back of your head. You know there's something fishy going on, but you can't prove it. Seems it relies upon our cooperation with others to make it 'work.'

Here's the link to the "Idea"