March 22, 2009

Two articles

Filed under: politics, historical training, religion — Ms. Rose @ 6:04 pm

whose commonality is the NYTimes

  1. Bat Mitzvah’s at age 90 Plus: My commentary on this could go on and on but I won’t for now…
  2. Integrating Obama into textbooks…THis article really point to the hesitancy of addressing changing history when it can be accesses so easily via the web.

Numerous updates as a tool of evasion for writing paper about migration and gender…

(And how did I not have a “religion” tag until today?)

Some things I’ve liked recently

Filed under: books, about ms. rose, religion — Ms. Rose @ 12:25 pm

File this under Religion and News

New England surpasses West Coast as least religious region in America, study finds (via LATimes)
Wonder what the Puritans would have thought of that! And what does “least religious” really mean?

Bruhahahha over Big Love Temple episode and subsequent media coverage
I’m totally watching the season finale tonight and ignoring my work for an hour.

And in stuff I like this week:

Teaching The Handmaid’s Tale by Atwood:

Doesn’t the guy kinda look like representations of Henry the 8th?