Links and Quotes

Memorizing Chinese Characters

With this site, you don't need flashcards to help you try to learn Chinese Script.

Guilt Trip

I didn't do anything wrong.  Or rather, I should say I didn't do that sort of wrong.  I ave erred out of selfish pride -- a common human frailty.

And it is easy to make me feel guilty.

Where do Atheists come from?

Atheism, not God, is odd.

I never thought of it that way.

arithmetic = numbers

geometry = numbers in space
music = numbers in time
astronomy = numbers in space and time

Spot the Argument

David Warren tells us a way to deal with ad homminem argument:  things that people of our conservative political persuasion always have to deal with.

I noticed ... I'd been named in a column, along with Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan, Glenn Beck -- and St. Paul, flatteringly enough -- as exemplars of a "rabid misogyny" and "extremist thinking." Or perhaps I rated only with Scott Brown, the new U.S. senator from Massachusetts, as a "pale, albeit appallingly classless, echo of it."

The column, by Janice Kennedy, was on this page last Sunday. It began by offering a game of "Spot the Jerk" -- in which all win, and all must have prizes. And rather than try to refute it, I would invite gentle reader to read or reread it, playing the alternative game of "Spot the Argument." For beyond the ad hominems, I couldn't find one.