I’m in class all day today, so I don’t have anything particularly insightful of my own to post. Instead, let’s all ruminate on this deeply reflective question from Calvin, clearly one of the world’s leading theologians.

By the way, if this happens, I’m in a lot of trouble.

Here’s a brilliant explanation of why college textbooks are so expensive, and why students hate bookstores so much. I can’t say that I’ve actually been inside a university bookstore for a long time, but I still remember how annoying this was.

The Doghouse Diaries

“No kilin’, sept fer critters.” It doesn’t get much better than that.

HT 22 Words

The subtitle of this video says it all: “Stupidity captured at 2500 frames per second.” The result? Six minutes of fabulous frivolous destruction. Check it out.

Once again You Tube is here to save us from our own ignorance.

Here’s a fun post from Mental Floss on Funny and Fabulous Fortune Cookies. Check out the post for their comments and pictures of more fortunes. But here are my favorites.

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Sometimes you love something so much that you just have to write about it.

Here’s a great list of things that medieval monks scribbled in the margins of the manuscripts they were working on. Read the whole post for the rest of the quotes, but here are my favorites.

New parchment, bad ink; I say nothing more.

The parchment is hairy.

Thank God, it will soon be dark.

Oh, my hand.

Now I’ve written the whole thing: for Christ’s sake, give me a drink.

As the harbor is welcome to the sailor, so is the last line to the scribe.

Read the rest here. (HT Rachel Held Evans)

If only I had thought of doing this when my girls were younger.

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