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Day’s Verse:
Encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.
Titus 2:4
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I suddenly realized that my life is not only pathetically boring, but it is also totally devoid of any semblance of, well, life. People go to parties, spend time with friends, get out of Worcester, have things to tell each other. I studiously pursue homework, then when that is done I do more homework, then maybe I watch a Star Trek or Babylon 5 with the only two people I ever see. Continue Reading >>

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Day’s Verse:
But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.
Titus 2:1
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Yesterday I had to write a brief paper arguing that the Challenger disaster occurred because the managers and engineers failed to achieve a complete respect for the rhetorical deliberative process. That is known as an Aristotelian hypothesis, and if you have any idea what that means, let me know. It has also been argued that the Challenger was allowed to launch on an 18° day, although the O-rings were suspected to become impaired at 50°, because the engineers simply were incapable of communicating with the managers. This is called a positivist argument, claiming a simple inability to connect. Then there is an argument that the managers and engineers inhabited such different social circles that they each perceived the same data differently and as a result all the talk in the world could not get them to agree. This is a postmodernist argument, with the idea that irrevocable differences prevented effective communication. Continue Reading >>