Mark broke the 11th Commandment, and mentioned the Vatican’s new list of seven deadly sins, which apparently are the following: Drug abuse Morally debatable experimentation Environmental pollution Causing poverty Social inequality and injustice Genetic manipulation Accumulating excessive wealth Some of those are cute, by the way. One could very easily argue that Social Inequality is at the center of Catholic hierarchy, for example the sex-apartheid of the clergy and the, ahem, easily arguable sexism of their employment opportunities. (I mean, forget glass ceilings. This one’s painted by Michaelangelo!) Injustice? Church history’s full of that. I mean, massacres at the behest …
Month: April 2008
Brain-Cardio: Should University Be Easy?
(UPDATE: I’ve reflected further on student expectations and culture here, in part as a response to comments to this post. If you want to read it, you’ll have to log in.) Today, I was discussing next week’s work in one of my classes, and the third student in a row commented that the book I’d assigned for reading is not easy. I said, “I know. It’s difficult. It’s weird. It’s about stuff that happened before you were born, or when you were little babies. It’s about technology, and cops, and weird stuff that feels like it has nothing to do …
Eh?
This Associated Press article had me saying, “Eh?” Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused rival Sen. Barack Obama and his allies of trying to stop people from voting as some of his backers have called on her to drop out of the presidential race. The Obama campaign rejected the charge, dismissing Clinton’s criticism as “completely laughable.” Yeah, I don’t know that I have an opinion on this whole Obama/Clinton thing — I’m more disenchanted with Clinton, like most people, for the obvious reasosn, but I’m honestly dubious about the ability of anyone to change Washington, let alone America, with all …