Mark, 21:12. Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
It’s a first on Michael Braun’s blog; I’ve opened a post with a quote from the Christian bible. What’s the connection with […]
Finally! Lauren and I have been waiting, waiting, waiting since late last fall. Finally UW Volleyball is back! We skipped the scrimmage last weekend, but made good use of the Inntowner Invitational this weekend at the UW Field House. UW, Duke, South Dakota, and Ohio - all battling it out, tasting […]
For a year and a half, Lauren and I sent each other multiple emails during the work day. I went through and collected some of the best closings of our emails. Here they are for your reading pleasure.
Have a generous and magnanimous morning!
Have a fabulous lunch!
Have a reserved and subdued afternoon!
Have a swell […]
John Stossel, “reporter” for ABC and “consumer advocate,” appeared at a healthcare “forum” on Thursday in La Crosse. You can read more about it here. In brief, he claimed that the free market can reform healthcare better than the government can. I might agree with him if he meant that healthcare can’t […]
As usual, I’m behind the times on up-and-coming bands. The Last Shadow Puppets released their full length debut, The Age of the Understatement, in March of 2008. And oddly enough, I discovered the existence of this band while reading comments on a review of Arctic Monkey’s latest release. LSP is a collaboration […]
I emailed the researcher who put out the study I talked about in the previous post. She was kind enough to email me a meta-analysis she lead-authored from 2008. A meta-analysis is a synthesis of multiple studies related to the same issue or using the same measure. The researchers combine all the […]
Another researcher has discovered a shocking trend: today’s teens are rampant narcissists! Not bothering to make a distinction between narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder (such rigor would be too tiring!), this researcher at San Diego State University devised a very clever way to ask questions such that they can be certain of getting […]
Lauren and I were driving in the car over the weekend when we saw three men dressed in bicycle gear riding on the side of the road for exercise. As we often do, we turned our current conversation about healthcare reform (yes, we really were talking about it) into some jokes about how most […]
This weekend went by in a relaxing way, exactly what I needed after a busy week. It helped that my grandmother was moved to a nursing care facility on Friday. With all that stress, plus other relatives from out of town visiting her, it seemed like the ideal weekend to forgo a visit […]
A reader was kind enough to respond to the third part of my series “What Is A Cult,” which discusses a past employer of mine and its similarities to a cult. I found the comment interesting enough to respond. First, the comment:
“Anonymous” writes,
As a current employee of the organization you speak of, I […]
So tragic, the death of my wireless router! I’ve had my Apple AirPort Express since spring of 2005. It has served me well in 4 different apartments and through countless road trips. It was the perfect size, with excellent ease of use and features. I think back on all those times […]
Once again, Beloit college has released their annual “Mindset” list, containing reference points and other random, useless bits of trivia about supposedly meaningful changes or non-changes that may affect this year’s incoming college freshman. Once again, my dad mentioned the list to me; he finds it interesting. And once again, I fail to […]
This thought came to me last night while talking with my dad about my grandma. She’s still in the hospital, though will shortly be transferred to a “sub-acute care facility.” We got on the subject of hospital and doctor income models that hinge on the number of tests performed. In some organizations, […]
I’ve been thinking lately about the current debate in education: how should teachers be rewarded? The New York Times recently featured this topic on their “Room for Debate” blog. I think it’s an important issue as it pushes teachers to perform, even on speculation that there might be some sort of results-based […]
Pardon my long absence from this blog! Lauren and I have had a wild, whirlwind wedding weekend, as our friends Steph and Amos got married - to each other! But there’s more than that, so keep reading.
On Friday, I once again subbed at Camp Shalom. I got home around 4:30, showered, and […]