The enjoyable and educational University of Oklahoma Medieval Fair kicks off tomorrow, Friday the 31st, and runs through Sunday the 2nd, at Reaves Park in Norman. We’re going on Friday (weather permitting), and blogging about in the homeschool blog. Check back.

Reportedly, California has a law “requiring businesses to disregard a person’s marital status in the provision of services.” If people pass laws like that, they’re going to get lawsuits like this one: John Claassen is suing the eHarmony dating service, for discriminating against him just because he’s married!

Today my friend Ted asked me to do a little HTML work for the Gilbert magazine website. Gilbert (named after Gilbert Keith Chesterton) is a wonderful periodical, full of delightful artwork and enjoyable writing from a uniquely sane perspective. Thanks for letting me help, Ted!

At your next board meeting, try to work these latest corporate buzzwords into your droning:

• delayering
• Web 2.0
• knowledge acquisition
• unsiloing

And if you haven’t stopped saying “rightsizing,” make today the day.

The Public Broadcasting System is trying to teach kids not to buy things. There’s a whole “Don’t Buy It!” section of the PBSkids.org website, with fun games and activities that all teach one lesson: capitalist robber-barons are lying thieves, and you would be a fool and a traitor to the proletariat if you bought something — especially something that was advertised on commercial television.

But the lessons are not always absorbed. There’s a “Design a Cereal Box” exercise, to show how manipulative cereal packaging brainwashes little proles. When Faith showed me the one she designed (I think she named it “Yum Crunch”), she said, “I wish it was real, so we could buy it!”

…is Marxism? To Marx, God was an “opiate,” so I reckon that to God, Marx is a stimulant. Maybe it makes sense in Korean.