We were at the beach

Everybody had matching towels

Somebody went under a dock

And there they saw a blog

It wasn’t a blog

It was a blog watcher…

The Agitator: Big Government vs. the banana. In the same post he describes the conditions under which, pace President Bush, the human being and fish cannot coexist peacefully. I am pretty sure the Agitator does think we can make the pie higher, though.

CalPundit: More on Teach for America and Emery Elementary.

Noli Irritare Leones is blogging her way through the Book of Kings. Via Camassia.

Regions of Mind: Fascinating stuff about the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. “Jonathan Edwards is sometimes criticized for having too dim a view of human nature, but it may be helpful to be reminded that his grandmother was an incorrigible profligate, his great-aunt committed infanticide, and his great-uncle was an ax-murderer.”

The Corner: Why is barring “political preaching” in the classroom a good thing? Seriously. Yes, many professors push their political beliefs in obnoxious ways. (And not just in the classroom: When I was at Yale, one professor caught a student–I think a student of his, but I’m not 100% sure–chalking a sidewalk advertisement for a pro-life demonstration on campus, and snapped, “I thought students at this school were educated!”) But a classroom sanitized of political perspective is a classroom sanitized of philosophical and personal perspective, and I can’t think why that would be good. Here I describe ways a professor can inject his own perspective in a way that engages rather than alienates his students.

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