Bears: A legitimate fear

For some reason, my school is obsessed with Alaska. It’s the state they choose to learn every obscure detail about. I can’t explain why, but there is some strange supernatural connection between them and learning about Alaska.
One of my teachers asked me to give a presentation on the state for the fourth time, and [...]

Fight or Flight?

Today I was invited to go on a field trip at my school. I’m not sure about you, but when I was in grade school the field trips were the most placid places we could find. We’d either take a ten minute drive to a boyscout camp or go to Plymouth Plantation where we’d look [...]

Links For the Midweek

Palin Fraud Case Building. Used State Funds to Have Children Travel.
Awkward Scrabble (xkcd comic)
India’s going to the moon.
Jon Stewart’s quiz on what a real American is. Sarah Palin cries somwhere.
“Academic Salaries” (web comic, but real and kind of sad)
Law makers want a domestic spy agency?
In case you’ve forgotten, a list of all the [...]