Doug Wilson against Homeschooling

Or at least the digital kind? Well, maybe not exactly, but he still thinks a classroom is best, if it’s a good classroom.

Myself, I’m inclined to think that classroom education is the sort of thing you should break into gently, and not really experience full-bore until college, which college should start around fourteen.

Billion Year Old Water Bottle

What always gets me about stories like this is, how do they know? First, how do they know they water has been isolated? Did they crawl the cavern and test for leaks? Secondly, how do they know it’s been a billion years?

The other thing that gets me is that those are legitimate science questions. Shouldn’t science writing cover the sciency parts?

HT: Pseudopolymath

Yes, Virginia, there really is a line

See my previous post for thoughts on books that needn’t bother to be books. Nevertheless, I agree wholeheartedly with Tim Challies’ review of Sex, Dating, and Relationships: A Fresh Approach. There is no Biblical category for “girlfriend.” A girlfriend is a practice wife, and the only reason to practice being married without actually getting married is so you can practice getting divorced.

BUT (wanting to justify himself, he said) is there a Biblical category for betrothed? I’m looking at you, Song of Solomon.

Tea

Ran into this excerpt from George Orwell’s essays on tea while I was looking at something else entirely. I have to say that I agree – good tea should be at least as strong as coffee.

Some of his points sound very intriguing, and others are clearly just a good indicator of the culture and level of technology at the time. Why would anybody put used tea leaves in the carpet before vacuuming? Why would anybody want clumps of tea leaves in their drink? If it’s so important for the water to be actually boiling, wouldn’t it make sense to use something like a drip-style coffee pot with a full-boil setting?

I’m not quite sure how tea lost to coffee in the last 80 years, but it is odd to think that preparing Orwellian Tea would be at least as expensive as Starbucks.