Month: May 2010

For those of you who think that blogging is a recent phenomenon, you might want to think back to the 1970s when Dr Seuss apparently coined the term "blogg" for…

Today is "Quit Facebook" Day - a day of protest where a group of disgruntled Facebook members are encouraging others to get off the social network site.  Many of the…

On this Memorial Day we pause and remember the lives of men and women who died while serving our nation and protecting and preserving the many freedoms we all too…

BYU law professor Tom Lee (pictured) has been nominated by Governor Gary Herbert to a seat on the Utah Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by a recent retirement. …

In honor of Memorial Day, I thought I'd write some more about the battle of the Brandywine .  I returned from winter break a few months back with a few pictures of…

Via Greg Mankiw

A few days ago the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum posted its program for the upcoming symposium on Baseball and American Culture.  Some of the panel topics include:Baseball…

 Fitch downgraded Spain’s long-term foreign and local currency ratings by one notch to AA+ from triple-A.  According to the company: “The downgrade reflects Fitch’s assessment that the process of adjustment…

Insidehighereducation has a very nice brief essay by Elizabeth Parfitt on the challenges new teachers face.  Lots of good wisdom  in there, which it's helpful for veterans to remind ourselves of…

 Here's a picture I took of a sign in Nashville restricting cruising in the evenings and early morning (9 pm to 3 am).  Those anti-cruising ordinances are from the late…