Entries from July 2009
An Inconvenient Truth: Snowball Earth
July 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Al Gore leads the charge for reducing green house gas emissions with his lecture An Inconvenient Truth, but the really inconvenient truth is told in Snowball Earth by Gabrielle Walker (2003). Basically, we’re doomed.
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Stephen King’s Backstory Well Done in Carrie
July 28th, 2009 · No Comments
I tried hard to read Sue Monk Kidd’s The Mermaid Chair and I just couldn’t do it. I got through 30 or so pages of the paperback and gave up, then I got through two discs on the sound recording and gave up. Why could I not read this book?
Tags: Literary Fiction · Non Fiction
Selecting Your Child’s Class? Be Careful!
July 18th, 2009 · No Comments
As an eleven year old, I witnessed the carnage caused by a mother’s interference with her son’s placement. (See AP Article “Parental role in selecting child’s teacher up for debate” by Diana Marszalek that appeared 17 July 2009 in the San Francisco Chronicle.)
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