Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The percipitous drop in American housing prices is causing a lot of the consternation in the financial markets these days. But it's not without precedent in the U.S., or at least in Texas, where many doutbtless remember their own housing prices "going south" in the wake of the oil bust in the early 1980's. The …
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Prince Harry doesn't care much for the centrepiece of his realm: But Harry, third in line to the British crown, didn't seem overly happy with his homeland's press, who have given generous coverage in recent years to his partying escapades in the nightclubs of London and elsewhere. "I don't want to sit around in Windsor," …
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Back in the fall, in response to my post St. Jerome's Idea of Bishops and Presbyters, Abu Daoud asked me the following: I am wondering how you square Jerome's idea with the much earlier statements by Ignatius of Antioch regarding the centrality of the bishop in the ministry of the church (ie, do nothing without …
Having been alive and remembering when Lyndon Johnson "nuked" Barry Goldwater with the "daisies" ad, I have to admit that her "red phone ad" is pretty powerful. One big problem: she's pitching it to the party of Dzerzhinskii’s Dilemma where it will not resonate as it could elsewhere. Below is the "archetype" of Clinton's current …
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Note: since I originally posted this, the technology has changed. Now we have rigs to directly convert vinyl to mp3 (although vinyl purists cringe at the thought.) But I'm not sure these are the best way to go; the turntables and cartridges aren't always the best. I still prefer a Mac for this and use …
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