Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
With winter coming on us, I felt that this, coming from another of my sites, might be interesting. I always wondered why my family instilled in me such an intense dislike of promoters, those uniquely American creatures so prominent in our landscape. I think I discovered why. Vulcan Iron Works started out as a foundry, …
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The state that almost invented auto mobile living grinds to a halt: Gas prices shot up nearly 13 cents in some areas overnight Saturday, fueled by what's being called "a perfect storm of factors" that drove inventories across California to near-record lows. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in L.A. County was …
I see many postings on Facebook about American "classic" or more explicitly "muscle" cars of the 1960's and 1970's. It's a mix of photos from the day, photos of other people's restored cars, or in some cases their own children or grandchildren restoring them. Few things will warm a Boomer's heart than more than this …
A program from--where else--Tennessee: Temple Israel and Unity of the Palm Beaches are collaborating on a project that is soulful — and sole-ful. Rabbi Cookie Lea Olshein of the temple and the Rev. Rhonda K. Liles, senior minister at Unity of the Palm Beaches, will go barefoot Oct. 11, to raise awareness for Soles4Souls, a …
Al-Jazeera takes note of the events across the Gulf: Iranian riot police have clashed with protesters in the capital Tehran over the collapse of the rial, the country's currency, which has lost a third of its value against the dollar in a week. Police on Wednesday reportedly fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators, including currency exchange …
Getting out of bed and checking the email must be getting painful for Chuck Murphy these days: The archbishop of the Anglican Church of Congo, the Most Rev. Henri K. Isingoma has sent a formal letter to Canon Kenneth Kearon, General Secretary of the Anglican Communion, saying that the Congo will not grant any canonical …
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Ross Perot, the man who messed up the 1992 election, is at it again: “We’re on the edge of the cliff, and we have got to start fixing it now. Otherwise, we’re leaving a disaster to our children’s and our grandchildren’s future,” he said. Wolf spoke with Perot as part of an interview for C-SPAN, …
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And they certainly have one: “He's got to continue to concentrate on jobs,” Rep. Bill Pascrell said last week as the House was leaving town for a long, pre-election recess. “I'm hoping he'll do immigration reform,” said Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas). “We should get back to an energy policy – one that acknowledges that climate …
(DSG-1) 1976 Coming from Aiken, SC (the state that produced Ark and Southern Joy), this is another one of those albums that pushed 1970's Christian music in a more "rock" direction, a direction many wanted to avoid but none could. And they do it in a magnificent, fun, Southern rock style that's deeply evangelistic to …
Of all people, Rachel Maddow, on of all networks, MSNBC, calls this one-speech volte-face by Barack Obama for what it is: This country is, in many ways, in the course of a long revolution that started with the 1960's. (For a country always in a hurry, we can't even get a revolution resolved in 40-50 …
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