Althouse: Last Sunday's "Sopranos" episode: "Kennedy and Heidi."

Althouse: Last Sunday's "Sopranos" episode: "Kennedy and Heidi."

The Podcast @ Story52

The Podcast @ Story52

my library at librarything

I just added a widget to the site that shows random books from my library. How does it know what books I have? I've told it. I've catalogued the majority of my books at librarything.com.
Sometimes I've forgotten I own a book and there it is, on my blog.

Public Radio Talent Quest Continues

The quest continues...there are a lot of really good entries.
Enough that the judges could easily choose 50 or 100. The odds aren't particularly good for me, but when do I ever try anything with good odds? So, here's my entry.
http://publicradioquest.com/node/930

Don't you just love Ira Glass?

It seems a whole lot of people have the same dream as I do. So far there are almost 600 entries in Public Radio Exchange's Talent Quest. It's like American Idol for Public Radio-heads, and I'm right in there with them. I've never spent so much time and effort on two minutes of audio!
The judges are choosing 9 entrants to go on to the next round, and then they're letting the the voting public choose the 10th. At that point there's a mysterious 'second round,' which I imagine will be something like the creepy scene in Eyes Wide Shut where everybody is naked and wears a scary mask. Then we'll separate the wannabes from the real hosts, won't we?

Regent University - A School for Scandal

Pat Robertson's Jesus filled law school pumps out DOJ employees in the same masses that Harvard and Yale do under real administrations. It's not that the bar's been lowered, it's that the bar's been utterly removed. It's so depressing that nothing I discover about them surprises me anymore.

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/08/scandal_puts_spotlight_on_christian_law_school

SAT? 826!

It's Sunday morning and the birds are chirping outside my window. Another gorgeous day in San Jose. I spent yesterday afternoon at 826 Valencia (the happiest place on earth), teaching the final installment of my free SAT extravanganza. There were some really impressive kids in the class. I always try to gently pump that kind of kid for details...private or public school? what do your parents do? are they still together? I try to stop myself before I weird the kid out, but I'm on a perpetual quest to figure out why some kids are all golden and shiny and brilliant and others are, well, not.