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  • Jesus Camp

    Jesus Camp: This movie has nothing to do with pirates or reality TV, so it gets a separate post. Jesus Camp is a documentary about a camp where kids go to “learn” about evangelical Christian beliefs. You may have heard Richard Dawkins say that bringing up kids to believe in a certain religion is child…

  • Never Forget

    Here are four of my earliest memories from childhood: In elementary school, we used to have classes where we learned about drugs, and how to not do them (anyone remember Safety Kids?). After one of these classes, I remember going out for recess with my friends, and finding a suspicious mass on the ground. It…

  • Read This or Else

    So I finished my last and only exam today. The following occured to me: In grad school, it’s not really writing exams that matters, but the threat of writing exams. See, marks don’t really matter. In a grad course, everyone is going to get a good mark no matter how well (or poorly) they do…