Picking the very best of this week's stories for you!
A Judge questions the no-fault divorce policy and wants to do something about it. A writer questions the sanity of her dog and has done something about it. Christine questions Andrew Sullivan's criticisms of Sarah Palin and does something about it. Her father was killed in Viet Nam and this stuff is deeply personal. Gospel -- and an offer. Missional thinking and someone who is doing something about it.Frank Beckwith explains the Pope's newest encyclical, and we will be having a conversation about it on this blog soon.
I'm a huge fan of Mark Twain, and here's my request for you to drop a donation to the preservation of his Boyhood Home and Museum.I'm seeing much more of this too. Sometimes at the point of hubris.
I hope more churches will commit to doing a series like this one at Vintage Church. (via Twitter) Cobus compares extremes. (via Twitter) Great image from Dave Diller at Renovate. (via Twitter)
Tweet of the Week (from Tom Ward): "Once heard a preacher say that a sleepless night is a call to prayer. Sometimes a sleepless night is a reminder to order decaf next time."
Codex Sinaiticus online. Ancient genome mapping.
Open source implications. Future implications with the iMonk. Sacred space implications. Unfazed implications. FB implications. Slavery's implications.
1. Journalism and narcissism. (HT: cas)
2. Ubersnoring.
3. Google's Chrome OS ... does this have promise for Macs or are we still ahead of the crowd?
4. The worst drinks for your health. (HT: MV via Twitter)5. What explains this relentless criticism of Palin by Maureen Dowd?
6. Then compare Dowd with the brilliance of Brooks. That guy knows how to offer social commentary.
7. Should we celebrate Muslim holidays? I like Leith Anderson's comments.
8. The best books for kids: Nicholas Kristof.
9. The Bush Doctrine vs. The Obama Doctrine: Jonah Goldberg heats up.
10. Justice Ginsburg.
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On the grade-changing requests: Why am I not surprised?
I look at this phenomenon (and it's even happened at the community college I'm taking classes at in prep for my teaching degree) as a fallout of the "gold stars for everyone" mentality that's pervaded so much of our educational system. We've gone so far in the self-esteem department that we've produced an incredibly narcissistic generation that believes that if they do "most" of the work, they "deserve" a good result.
Excuse me, but I don't seem to recall that being true in any of my classes. If you only do most of the work, you only know most of the material, and it shows up on your test, when there are questions you didn't study for! Give me a break. I think with the whole idea of self-esteem curriculum, we've given ourselves enough rope with which to hang ourselves.
Tweet of the week. Maybe someday that'll rival the Nobel? :)
Just to answer the question on Chrome for the Mac: technically, you can run any operating system on a Mac. Many people have installed various Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc.) onto Macs either in addition to or in replacement of OSX (though, I agree that there is never a reason to replace OSX). Chrome OS is basically a Linux distribution, though it will be a very unique one.
So yes, it will be possible, though it does require a bit of geekery to set up a computer to boot multiple operating systems. It will also be possible to virtualize it, like many people do with VMWare Fusion or Parallels to run Windows on Macs, so that the systems can access each other and switch back and forth without restarting.
I think Mark Roberts' missional post does a good job in addressing the issue RJS brought up (not setting up missional work and programs within the church as an either/or) in comments on my Friday/Friends post a week ago.
Pujols is quite a hitter. Must have been fun to see him, even if it meant another loss for your Cubbies. :)
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