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Time for another update, I reckon. Chapter 7 is almost done, except that I'm still trying to track down some information to help me rework a few paragraphs. If you work in cognitive psychology or cognitive science or have a PhD in psych or something vaguely related,...

The view from my kitchen: The view from inside my freezer: You can't really see the pipe poking out of his mouth (aka a match). You can see that his eye is kind of messed up. He's kind of like Pirate Mini-Snowman. Arrrr!

The weather reports were right, it did really snow today. There was nasty, nasty rain all day, and then 2:30ish or 3ish it started coming down in big, fat, wet, fluffy white flakes. Then it turned into hail, then rain, then snow again, and then hail again. Go figure....

Peggy Orenstein has a very interesting piece in the NYT from a couple of days ago about the the aggressive marketing of "princess" culture to very young girls. I don't agree with all of her analysis, but it's definitely worth reading. ETA: Oh, dang him. Micah is...

Despite the fact that it's supposed to send me an email every time I have a comment waiting for moderation, the Wordpress Bot has been remiss in its duties as of late. Not sure what's going on (the correct check boxes are checked), but I just discovered a whole big...

I just realized I only have 4 or 4 1/2 months left here, out of my 2 1/2 year (3 years, minus 6 mos in the US of A last fall) tour of duty. Crrrrrazy. What would I want to do (or do again) before I go? Luckily I have family coming right before I leave, so there'll be...

Well, this is totally horrifying, if not surprising. I'm very proud of and grateful to the woman in question. Hopefully this will make it to the High Court and we can get some "legal clarification", as they say, on the issue of people being able to sit wherever they...

I am fried like a fried thing. Potato, rather than jelly-filled, probably. I pretty much hit my limit yesterday, wherein I managed to get a little bit of work done but was in probably the evilest mood ever. It wasn't pretty, really. Today I had All the Appointments...

Haaretz reports on a new theory suggesting that the tale of the Maccabees' response to religious oppression may be about as well-founded as the claim that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq:Antiochus IV Epiphanes (215-163 BC), ruler of the Hellenistic...