Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Well, that's what he did in the Huffington Post: But if Obama doesn't weigh in forcefully and say "no" to the hush money for Big Pharma, big insurance, and the AMA, America's middle class will get walloped. And if the walloping starts before 2012, Sarah Palin or some other right wing-nut populist will wallop Obama. …
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About two years ago I quoted the French poet Edouard Haraucourt and his line "Partir, c´est mourir un peu" (to leave is to die a little) relative to the Episcopal (or any) church. That quote is what struck me in Charles Rubin's summary of the IRS' rules on Americans who become expatriates: The Code requires …
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The flap over Rush Limbaugh's exclusion from a share of the St. Louis Rams is absurd. American football has to be the worst place in our culture for liberals to make a stand like this. It is: Competitive, in a culture where cooperation has been deemed to be the norm. It has winners and losers, …
That's what American Prospect's Mark Schmitt is thinking about in his article "Left Without Labour:" The new progressive coalition follows the lines of the "emerging Democratic majority" that Ruy Teixeira and John Judis predicted in their 2002 book of that name: minority, professional, and younger voters, with help from a large gender gap. This is …
He's blowing off many of us, as he does here: 'I have made a decision. I will no longer debate the issue of homosexuality in the church with anyone. I will no longer engage the biblical ignorance that emanates from so many right-wing Christians about how the Bible condemns homosexuality, as if that point of …
As my own church ponders the number of Administrative Bishops it needs, the Church of England shows everyone how to bloat the episcopal budget: The running costs of the Church of England’s 113 bishops increased by £2 million, or 13.5 per cent, to £16 million last year at a time when the Church has been …
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I rest my case against those who insist that only those who excel academically (and of course those who go to the right schools) are worthy to direct our society with this, from (of all places) the New York Times: “The financial system nearly collapsed,” he said, “because smart guys had started working on Wall …
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In response to this posting about broadcaster Paul Roberts, I got the following response from WGOW (Paul's last radio station) Program Director Bill Lockhart: Towards the end of his (Paul's) life I visited him at Memorial Hospital (our Catholic hospital in Chattanooga) on a Sunday morning. A Lay Minister (Catholic) came in...offered communion (I declined...being …
We're one step closer to "ignition" between the Muslim and homosexual communities: Creteil Bébel is excluded The amateur soccer team, primarily made up of Moslem players from the Paris region, was excluded from their league because they refused to play against a homosexual club, Paris Foot Gay. The Leisure Soccer Commission wrote: “The Creteil Bebel …
I'm taking my series of videos of music alluded to in the novel The Ten Weeks in a different direction this week with Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown," a television performance that is very much from the time the song was released (and the setting for the novel too.) But it brings up something …
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