Monthly Archives: December 2010

After the three angels visited with Abraham to announce the birth of Isaac, they continued on to Sodom. They arrived in the evening, and Abraham’s nephew, Lot, who was sitting by the gate of the city, saw them. When Lot saw them, he rose to greet them and, bowing low with his face to the…
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Judah had gotten married and had three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. When Er came of age, Judah found him a wife, a woman named Tamar. But Er was evil (we are not told why), and God took him. After Er died, the tradition of the times was that his brother must marry the widow,…
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Just as we all have many different appetites and emotions (which are usually in conflict, and which can be interested in all sorts of healthy or unhealthy objects), we also have many different, and often confusing, mental functions: we have random thoughts, images, and memories; we have stored facts and data; we have logical processes;…
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It’s time to rethink the Public Education model from scratch, so we stop wasting time and money and pretending we’re accomplishing something that isn’t happening. If our kids are falling behind kids in other countries, it’s not because we don’t spend enough money on education, it’s not because teachers aren’t good enough, and it’s not because…
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Money, originally uploaded by AMagill. We’re all aware that because of the economic situation there is a danger that more and more necessary services are going to have to be cut – social security, police, education, roads, the arts, unemployment benefits, scientific research, etc., etc. None of us want these things to happen, but no…
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