The dishwasher does not leak! No, in fact, it retains water like the premenstral cow that it is. For some reason the water refuses to drain. It's a Maytag, which is considered reliable and desirable in this state, but the model number means nothing to a Google search. Even the Maytag website refuses to believe they ever made a machine with this particular model number.
As far as we can tell, the part that makes the water go in should be the same part that makes the water go out. Logically, this means that if water goes in, water should go back out. We've got a dishwasher that defies logic!
Anybody know how to date an ancient Maytag? For all we know it's a 1966 (the year the company began producing portable dishwashers).
In other news, I was reading a little bit about Georgie Boy and the intelligent design "theory" of education. It interested me because I would be a product of the system in use.
When I was a freshman in high school, the state decided that students who were homeschooled could not earn a legitimate high school diploma. These students would have to take the GED test. My opinions on that little show of genius are neither here nor there, but it meant that a lot of the kids in my freshman class had never been in a classroom setting before, at least not since elementary school.
One of the former homeschoolees was widely recognised because he always carried a briefcase. (Even when backpacks were banned the following year, he carried his briefcase and never got detention.) He was also, it was widely understood, homeschooled because his parents did not want him subjected to "non-Christian" ideals.
He was in my Biology class. The day it came time to learn about Darwin was an interesting experience for me. The teacher presented us with several different hypothesis for how life ended up on this planet: the Darwin way, the Bible way, or the left here by Aliens way. Seriously.
All the while, she kept looking over at Briefcase Boy and saying that these were only theories, that no one was saying that any of these were necessarily "right", and we could choose whatever we wanted to believe.
I was completely confused. I had not realised that there were people in this world who did not believe in Darwin. I thought we had left the creation myths behind and recognised them as such. I had seen Inherit the Wind; the play was set in the 60's and I assumed that with that era we also abandoned the notion of taking myths too literally.
While it's true that, as Bush says, students are turned on to new schools of thought, it was rather like learning that gravity is not a law, but a theory. I was going to suggest it was like meeting someone who thought the Earth was flat, but then I remembered the Flat Earth Society.
So, should we start presenting all crackpot ideas as "alternative theories"? I understand the necessity of questioning things that are simply accepted to be true, but do we really need to go the way of the National Enquirer or World News and question everything?
We all need stories that help us to explain the world around us. I suppose intelligent design is the way to make everyone feel like their story is validated. But, well, if you want to believe two and two really equal "Periwinkle", you're going to get it wrong on the test. Endy story.