The Gods Are Bored

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" Wow, a whole week and no post! Annie has been a lazy girl. Let me tell you parents out there: Y...

There's no use looking back at your life and thinking about what might have been. All you can do is move forward. On this Christmas Ev...

Hello, my dear fellow-sojourners in this harsh and weary world! It's me, Anne Johnson, welcoming back the Sun! This year I learned tha...

I have not approved of how my nation has conducted its defense ever since 9/11. The reason I don't approve is because of the Knights T...

When you get your ticket punched to Geezer City, your consolation prize is a cup of wisdom. Sadly, that wisdom comes from years of doing the...

I can't make it to Washington, DC on December 13 to march for justice. This is my contribution to that cause. Over the past nine years...

Every winter, the town of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania holds a festival based on -- big "duh" here -- the Phoenix. The Heir and I ma...

Phoenixville Firebird Burned By Vandals Hours Before Festival Begins « CBS Philly

Have you heard of the Danielson Framework for Teaching? It's a teacher evaluation tool. It's 27 pages long. It works like a scor...

     To the eternal question -- "What happens when we die?" -- the human species has searched for answers in a wide range of spiri...

We at "The Gods Are Bored" now have six readers! And to all six, and anyone else out there, we wish you a shopping-free, work-free...

Well, what do you know? "The Gods Are Bored," founded in 2005, now has 2200 entries and 500,000 page views! This is cause to pause...

Two years ago my school district lost an administrator who was thoroughly and universally loathed. At the time, he was teaching two classes ...

Wow, I really wanted to start a new blog and give it this title, overall. I would have a million sympathetic eyeballs in two weeks. My rea...

Wow! My three readers chimed in! They want dispatches from the danger zone! Thank goodness for that, because I'm in it, the place is unj...

They really are out to get public employees. By "they" I mean certain politicians and high-end businesspeople. The politicians wou...

Modern colleges thrive on a pack of lies. The biggest one, of course, is the one The Heir got fed: "Workplaces are looking for people w...

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Life is very random, and so friendships are formed rather randomly. You become friends with the people you work with, you become friends wit...