Who Were the Sea Peoples?

World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has tested positive for cocaine . As a result he may lose his belts. Come on, he lives in England. He just had to walk into the loo of his local pub a couple of times and that would be enough to produce a positive test.

The Bible only says one thing about "cursing": Don't take the Lord's name in vain. If I say, "What the f*ck is that?" the Lord's name does not appear anywhere in that sentence. I think what has gone on here is a conflation of upper-class behavior with righteous behavior. Cursing is something done by dirty, sweaty, working men when they are angry. When a rich person is angry, he has other outlets: he forecloses on your house, or fires you. So, no need to curse!

I spoke the following words: " I have reviewed at least three books on of the history of science..." The Apple dictation software put them into m y document exactly as above. But then it suddenly deleted a bunch of them leaving me with: " I have reviewed at least three books science..." Notice that the new sentence isn't even grammatical. What the heck could be going on? It "heard" all of the words, and then... decided it did not like some of them?

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My tenant found the house too cold. I realized that the problem was that I had turned the furnace off at the start of the summer, and had forgotten to turn it back on. But when turning the thermostat up to 70 had produced no result, my tenant then turned it up to 85. Her view of the thermostat was that it was some sort of magical wish granter: if one wishes for 70, and one's wish is not granted, then perhaps wishing for 85 will result in a grant of the wish for 70. I don't mean to pick on her: many, many people seem to treat thermostats in this way. They walk into their office, and the temperature is 80. They would like it to be 70, but they want it to "get there fast," so they set the thermostat to 60.

I am currently cutting over all of my course management to rely on open-source, text-reliant software and files. I have been through several course management tool cut-overs at several schools, plus experiencing the general difficulty of bringing one's accumulated knowledge and data forward from one position to the next, and with the last new course management tool I had to adopt, I had had it! Of course, you have to use whatever course management software your school requires: well, they require it, and the students are used to it. But you can just fill up the content area of that tool with links to your open-source repository, where the real meat of your course resides. To do this: A GitHub repository should take the place of your Moodle / Blackboard / Canvas / Whatever course module as the focus of where you collect your course materials. When you rely on GitHub for this function, you get: Complete portability of your accumulated course-specific files from one institut...

Or any other single good. As Eric Voegelin wrote: "The political interplay of [every functioning society] is patrician. It is based on the fact that one thinks a lot about what the others do, but does not say it; that one is always aware that in the society there is more than one good to achieve, not only the good of freedom, but also the good of security, the good of welfare, and that if I specialized in one or other of these goods, I could thereby bring the whole society into disorder, because I could destroy the balance between the realization of goods on which the society is based. . . . If I harden myself with a particular idea and pursue only this goal, this one good, then in reaction there arises the counterstasis, the counter-hardening, and with this the impossibility of social cooperation."