Taylor the Teacher

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Kate Olson has me thinking about why I blog anonymously. Here are some thoughts:
Blogging anonymously is more confining for the anonymous blogger than it is harmful for the blogged-about. ~isn’t that always true of censorship?~ Instead of asking why some […]

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Is there a company that allows me to make my own notebook the way Cafe Press lets me make my own T-shirt? I’m talking about the spiral bound or glue bound variety that require no updates or megahertz. The disconnected kind.
I don’t know who’s credited with saying that print is dead. Probably someone […]

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I would take any group of political refugees from anywhere else in the world before I’d live in a world where political refugees had nowhere to go.

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UPDATE: Technorati should make a way where users can find out the average authority level that a particular blog links out to. Could be useful on both sides of the blog.
 
Eminem should use his MySpace page for a real blog. MySpace is for making connections with people, not selling CDs. Assuming this is Eminem’s […]

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The Radical Libertarian says statism is a religion. Defenders of the state will irrationally defend it without regard to logic. I see the reaction he’s talking about all the time.

When I mention that I’m a philosophical anarchist people look at me like I am insane. “Anarchy means chaos!” they say. Whatever. I’m tired […]

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As an ADHD adult, I appreciate Ken’s words on the matter:
“Everything in life is movement. Every job is movement. On my way to this meeting, I saw construction workers busy at pouring foundation, excavating, and collaborating. I Skyped my friend and learned about the six meetings he had scheduled for today, each one in a […]

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Angelina dropped her oldest child off to school. This is news. Not only is this news, it’s “education news.” It’s sad that the child can’t go to school without people following him around. It’s sad that American “adults” don’t have any more concern for the child than that. It’s sad that Education Week even brings […]

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There are two sharply divided sides of most debates in America nowadays. Both sides are overly convinced that they are right. Both sides repel the other side with their obvious ignorance and brazenness. But nobody’s thinking that they themselves should listen.
 
 

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In my limited understanding of my life and what God wants from me, the one thing I’m sure of is that my choices are deeply involved. Therefore, any person who steps into the realm of influencing my choices should do so with circumspection. This goes double for governments and advertisers. This goes triple for the […]

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I broke up a fight at 3:40 on Friday afternoon out by the busses. The only reason I was even there to see the fight was because I was waiting in my car for a colleague who needed a lift home. There were about 4 cops around the school but none by the busses even […]

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