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# Questions Worth Asking: Weekend Edition
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/questions-worth-asking-weekend-edition/
- Published: 2007-05-20T22:38:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T21:27:48.000Z
- Description: Questions Worth Asking: Weekend Edition
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson, Uncategorized

Jim is [asking the questions that matter over at Decorabilia](http://decorabilia.blogspot.com/2007/05/spider-man-3-why.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com). Incidentally, Mere O reader Nobody [didn't like Spiderman 3 much either](http://anyeventuality.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/spider-man-3/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com).

The inestimable [Justin Taylor is curious about "White Center," a Rothko that sold for $5 million](http://theologica.blogspot.com/2007/05/low-brow-thoughts-on-high-brow-art.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com).

> Anyone out there care to explain what's so special about this?  
>  
> I'm sure those into abstract art will be mortified to hear me say this, but doesn't it look like something you could put together in PhotoShop in about 5 minutes?

If you're like me, then you have probably always wondered, what exactly *is* Montessori education, anyway[? Emily Bazelon of Slate explains.](http://www.slate.com/id/2166489/fr/rss/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com)

Update: Posted this, then realized that I forgot to add one. Jae Ran Kim asks:  
Just for fun, I thought I would apply a social worker’s perspective to the wholesome characters in popular Disney movies. Though not meant to be a rail against Disney per se; the Disney power of influence continues to affect millions of children around the world, and I thought it would be cheeky to take a closer look. How many of these beloved characters live in a married, two-parent (hetero) household?

Answer? [Not many](http://www.antiracistparent.com/2007/04/25/a-social-workers-perspective-of-disney-characters/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com). (HT: [FRCBlog](http://www.frcblog.com/?ref=mereorthodoxy.com))