Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
There's a lot going on these days; the problem for me is that most of it either doesn't deserve comment or I've already done it before. The topic at hand falls into the latter category, but it probably deserves a little recap. Liberals like Mark Harris like to remind us from time to time that …
Continue reading "The Chickens Come Home to Roost for the Church of England"
The death of audio pioneer Amar Bose brings back the memory of something that was a passion of mine during the 1970's--audio equipment. (The legacy of that passion may be seen in my digitisation technique for some of the albums on my music pages). It may seem strange now but the quest for analogue perfection …
Newbury Park (Cream CR-9003) Most Christian albums in the 1970's eschewed secular labels and concert venues, nurturing the developing Christian sub-culture and being evangelistic in the process. This album and group were an exception, although their later work was more distinctively Christian. But if you like the 1960's with its "Sunshine music" (like the Mamas …
We're up on another 4 July, and frankly this one looks to be depressing. Many of us find ourselves in a country that doesn't want us any more; we've even gotten to the point where we find a person like Edward Snowden a hero for exposing the NSA, even when he fled to places our …
Continue reading "The Government Agent Who Promoted Cohabitation"
In Palm Beach, where else: Two new residences will be going up while five old residences will be coming down, as approved Wednesday by the Architectural Commission...264 Bahama Lane: Owner Karl Wattenhofer is demolishing his house to cure a code-enforcement violation for unapproved window changes. He currently has fines that total more than $74,000. For …
Continue reading "When It's Easier to Demolish Your House Than to Make the Code Police Happy"
Christianity Today's piece on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien on marriage is making the rounds, especially in the wake on SCOTUS's boffo performance on same-sex civil marriage. CT's take is that Lewis was wrong and Tolkien was right, but unfortunately things aren't that simple. CT's analysis (coming as it does from an Evangelical publication) reminds …
Continue reading "Why Both Lewis and Tolkien Were Both Wrong on Marriage"
It happened: SCOTUS has struck down the provision of the Defence of Marriage Act that denied federal recognition to same-sex civil marriages, and basically "punted" on Proposition 8 on a standing issue. The latter doubtless seals that provision's fate. One of the reasons I find myself getting away from blogging on political issues is that …
Continue reading "Same Sex Civil Marriage: The Saddest "I Told You So" of Them All"
Not only is the "cool office" a myth, it isn't a novelty either. Consider "the Open Office Space Panopticon" like this: Trading in a cubicle for a shared desk not only encourages conformity — no more quirky puppy posters! — but also lets your boss see what you're doing at all times. Or at least …
Continue reading ""Open" Cubicle-free or Office-less Workplaces New? Hardly!"
The place that defined coffee bumps up the price, for some of us at least: The Seattle-based coffee company says it's hiking prices on average by 1 percent nationally starting on Tuesday. But it says the price for many drinks, such as medium and large brewed coffees and Frappuccinos, won't change in most its 11,000 …
Continue reading "Living on the Cheap at Starbucks is a Little More Expensive"
...their motto would be "all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid". This, of course, is from the opening Collect of the Holy Communion in the 1662 and 1928 Books of Common Prayer, which is why we jettison Cranmer's lovely prose at our peril. Since, at least for now, …
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