Who Were the Sea Peoples?

I am going to be the difference, cure violence, perhaps even be touched by a nurse! It is my first-year experience and my imagination beyond measure that will see me through while I'm working toward a world without cancer. You know why? Because tomorrow starts here! ( Explanation .)

The conductor just announced that to exit the train at my station, a passenger "must be in the front four cars." Hey, I may have gained a few pounds, but I'm not that large yet!

Dear editors, Did one of you asked me to review the book with the above title? Because Penguin Books just sent me a free copy in the mail, and right now I have no idea why. Sincerely yours, Enjoying my free book in Brooklyn

My wife was looking over my son's shoulder at the computer. "What's that?" "It's just a URL." "No, try it!" "It's just a URL." I imagined how the poor URL felt: I'm just a URL Difficult to spell People know the site I'm displayin' Paid for every click Hope my link they'll pick It's for eyeballs I'm prayin' There will come a day The site will pass away Then what will they say about me? When the end comes oh well They'll say just a URL The web goes on without me

I know I am an evil "statist," but really, I don't think the State is our salvation or anything of the sort, and often it screws up really badly. Or really, really badly, as when a Texas town just spent $60 million on a new high school football stadium. Now, that number alone fills me with despair: while I don't think that all taxes are theft, I do think that for the most part people ought to be left to spend their money as they see fit, and taxation should only be used to take care of true collective action problems. So if the town had had a severe problem with lots of destitute people living on the street, and it spent $60 million to give them all decent housing… well, it would sound a little excessive, but maybe that would be okay. But for a football stadium ? For a high school ? And I assume all of these kids are already reading beyond grade level, are computer programming experts, understand the history of Western civilization, can speak a foreign language flu...

MathMan, in the comments here , is surprised to discover my Hindu/Buddhist leanings. Let me share a story with you. I have read a fair amount of Hindu and even more Buddhist literature. Besides my less structured readings, I once taught a comparative religions course, and as part of my prep work, I went through a semester long course on Buddhism on CD, and a semester long course on Hinduism on CD. I always considered reincarnation as a quite plausible hypothesis, and I have thought that it could fit in with the Christian concept of purgatory quite nicely. (In this synthesis, reincarnation would be the way purgatory is "implemented.") But an experience with one of my children profoundly influenced me on this topic. This particular child was very angry for the first couple of years of his/her life. (We will just go with "his" henceforth, to avoid awkward exposition.) While puzzling over this, at one point, rather unbidden, an image came to me: it was of him liv...

when giving you your change, first put the bills in your outstretched hand, and then place the coins on top of the bills? This is pretty obviously the wrong order: you can easily grasp the bills with the coins underneath them, but it is very hard to grasp the coins with the bills underneath them.