Well, I’ve reached a fairly major breaking point in my religious research reading: I have finished reading the Hebrew Bible (‘Old Testament’ to us Christian types). There is a lot of crazy stuff in there—brutal wars, murder, incest, famine, pestilence, and slavery. Yet there is an underlying theme that God really loves us, even though we humans generally behave like spoiled, ungrateful, easily-distracted children.
Israel Blockades Lebanese Ports; Mid-East Fighting Escalates [Updated]
Following an armed Lebanese/Hezbollah incursion into Israel on Wednesday in which three Israeli soldiers were killed and two kidnapped, the Israeli Defense Forces have retaliated with a blockade and bombings of Lebanese ports, including the destruction of all three runways at Beirut’s international airport. Additionally, the IDF has attacked several strategic Lebanese targets including TV stations, government buildings, and an army air base.
New Primary URL & Email Address; Other Site Updates
I’m happy to announce that the primary address for this site is now / and my primary email address is now scott@scottbradford.us. These changes became possible after last week’s migration to PowWeb’s new server environment which offers much more domain/subdomain flexibility.
USA Today’s Point/Counterpoint on Homework
An interesting point/counterpoint about homework appeared in USA Today this week. The paper’s editorial stance is that our educational system has fallen behind those in many other countries, and lowering the amount of homework assigned to students would only make things worse. The editorial writer states, “If anything U.S. schools are guilty of spending too little time on academics,” and “Surveys of international studies show the homework loads of U.S. students near the bottom.”
Happy Independence Day!
Today is the Fourth of July—the day on which citizens of the United States of America celebrate our independence. So on this day, as I have done in the past, I’m going to ask a favor from all my American readers:
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.