Southern Baptist Convention falls prey to elaborate gay marriage hoax.
Officials with the Southern Baptist Convention said they have been the victim of an elaborate online hoax that included a phony news release announcing that the nation’s largest Protestant denomination had changed its position on homosexuality.
– Why is ADHD predominantly an east coast phenomenon?
– If the current model for public (and most private) education is based on the industrial revolution, what would a model based on the Information Age look like?
– Is a liberal arts education more valuable than we realize?
A book has a different relationship to time than a TV show or a Facebook update. It says that something was worth taking from the endless torrent of data and laying down on an object that will still look the same a hundred years from now. The French writer Jean-Phillipe De Tonnac says “the true function of books is to safeguard the things that forgetfulness constantly threatens to destroy.” It’s precisely because it is not immediate – because it doesn’t know what happened five minutes ago in Kazakhstan, or in Charlie Sheen’s apartment – that the book matters.
Beginning of the year I said we finished at the old one, so let’s try to open the new one up,” said second baseman Scott Wingo, voted the CWS’ Most Outstanding Player. “Coach wasn’t sure we would get it, but I’m the type of guy who felt we were going to do it. I was thinking of the Oregon State team the whole year. I had a feeling we would get back and win this thing, and we did.”
Squirrels, indeed. They are EVERYWHERE!