Comments on: What, after all, is education about?

By: Rod Hoffman

Rod Hoffman — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:47:05 +0000

Joe,

What you need is an honest-to-god Harvard Law School professor to justify your gambling problem…

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2007/11/05/high_stakes/

By: Elton

Elton — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:13:30 +0000

Awesome post. Paul Rudd, hobnailed boots and playing poker with the Tooth Fairy. That was hilarious.

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:37:10 +0000

Nice cameo on the Missouri-Kansas football game Joe

By: Dani

Dani — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:23:09 +0000

For what it’s worth, my husband is a poker player, and some friends of ours came over for dinner on Thanksgiving. While waiting for dinner, our friend decided to start using our playing cards as “flash cards” for our 3 year old son. He would hold up a 7-2 off suit and say “FOLD” or A-K suited and say “RAISE” or two Aces, “ALL-IN” after a while of this, I kid you not, my son got the hang of it and you could easily quiz him and he would pass with flying colors!!!! I told my husband that he could never play poker with our son on his lap again or he would end up losing the house!!!

By: Jim Haas

Jim Haas — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:41:49 +0000

Joe:

Funny and touching. On a trip through Iowa, I saw a highway exit sign that listed the nearby towns along with this:”Learning Area – 3 mi” I thought, “Do they prohibit learning outside the designated area? ” Turns out it was some kind of environmental education site, part of a state park. Point is, learning can and should happen anywhere. Poker = probabilities+psychology. Cooking = chemistry. Travel = history+sociology. Sports = [your favorite subjects here].

By: Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:57:45 +0000

I generally don’t like to give effusive praise in blog comments (I’d rather, you know, add something of substance to the mix), but this absolutely is the best blog on the web. You are now on the Bill James level of “I’ll read anything this man writes.” Love the baseball posts, love the general life-related posts, love the tangents. Keep doing you what you do, Joe. Your writing is funny, smart, and always good-hearted.

By: Guelphdad

Guelphdad — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:15:53 +0000

Well that and beating my Saints any time an important game comes up Jim.

By: Jim Haas

Jim Haas — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:00:23 +0000

Walker was a bust for the Vikings, but many of us remember his first carry, in which he lost a shoe and still ran about 60 yards. We got all excited, thinking that maybe acquiring Walker wasn’t such a boneheaded move after all. Then reality set in. That’s been pretty much the story of the Vikings ever since.

By: Mudge

Mudge — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:38:29 +0000

Re your daughter. Back in the old, less sophisticated days, of computers my son loved a blackjack game. It taught him how to add in his head and was a marvelous early math tutor. Sometimes gambling games are unintentionally educational.

By: Guelphdad

Guelphdad — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:10:19 +0000

Joe, if you are going to write about Walker you have to start here:
http://espn.go.com/abcsports/bcs/sugar/s/1981.html
Nowadays I’m just a now-and-then football guy, but that was some game and glad to have watched it.