There’s this scene called “Dad paying the bills” that we all know. (Yours might be called “Mom,” or “Grandpa,” but it’s quite similar.) In this scene, you have a note from your teacher at school that explains how you have screwed up, and Mom tells you, “Oh, not now. Dad’s paying the bills.” What does […]
Read More Money (That’s What I Want)No one else on the FDR home tour was about to wet herself with excitement like I was. He sat in this room! That was his lamp! He pulled himself up this dumbwaiter! (He did– even long after electricity, both to keep himself in shape and to assure himself he could evacuate in case of fire.) Inside the house is neat– but you have to stay with your tour guide to make sure no one spits on the floor. Outside the house is even better.
Read More Houses and GravesSince… there is a ‘law’ governing the amount of crime in a society, moral responsibility for crime must lie with society and not with the individual criminal. “It is society that prepares the crime and … the guilty person is only the instrument who executes it,” is the rather dramatic way he expressed it. People […]
Read More Annotated Bibliography: Inevitable Crime, Gifts of the Mediocre, and Stepping up for JesusToday we’ll be reviewing the last three movies I saw. Two of them are even being shown in theaters, which is pretty unusual. 1. “Up in the Air” is a “good” movie. You get to look at George Clooney, first. If we had to show an alien culture what a “man” looked like, George Clooney […]
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