The Virgina House of Delegates means well... A BILL THAT would allow Virginia students who are home-schooled to play on public-school sports teams has cleared the state House and is now headed to a Senate committee, where a similar measure died last year. ...but personally I think they should skip the risks to life and …
The Geniuses Commit Suicide
One the serious disadvantages of getting a secondary education in the late 1960's and early 1970's is that one was exposed to the first wave of "hippie radicals" to escape from our institutions of higher learning with a diploma. In the intervening years the subsequent waves have been merrily doing their damage to the system …
Peter Giardina: Song of Solomon
(Music Mountain MMP-PG-1001) 1975 Every now and then an album comes along which, at least in part, takes your breath away, and this is one of them. It is skillfully done, laced with the mellotron, that 1960's and 1970's instrument that's at once the product of technology and yet difficult to digitize, and profoundly spiritual. …
Harry Reid and Mitt Romney: When the Aspiring Gods Fall Out
When they're a)Mormon and b)in American politics: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a response to Mitt Romney’s claim that he will “reach across the aisle” to work with Democrats in Congress, if he becomes president: Don’t bet on it. “Mitt Romney’s fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his 'severely conservative' …
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One City's Halloween Horror is Another's Way of Life
That's what they're learning in the wake of Hurricane Sandy: A casket floated out of the grave in a cemetery in Crisfield, Md. after the effects of superstorm Sandy Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. This phenomenon--the effects of a high water table and not of demonic activity--was one of the first rude awakenings the early French …
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Freshman? Just Call Them "Fish"
Political correctness makes life more complicated on campus, this time at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill has removed the word “freshman” from official university documents, citing as their reason an attempt to adopt more “gender inclusive language.” We are “committed to providing an inclusive and …
My Idea of Classic Cars
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 …
Preserving God's Reputation With the Heathen
This, from Peter Freuchen's Book of the Seven Seas: Hans Egede, that holy man who became the apostle of Greenland after some very immoral earlier adventures, tells how his prayers stilled a storm which took him to the faraway island in 1721. The wind was so fierce and the waves so strong that the crew …
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Stewart Henderson: Whose Idea of Fun is a Nightmare
(Dovetail DOVE 35) 1975 One of the most difficult genres of albums to sell is the spoken word. That's because it's not easy to sustain the listener's interest over a sustained period. Long talking head videos have the same problem. This album is a glorious exception to that. Henderson, originally from Liverpool, regales us with …
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The High Price of Anti-Semitism
I've put off writing this piece for a long time. The subject is sensitive for a number of reasons. But given the things going on both here, in Europe and the Middle East these days, perhaps it's time to visit this subject, although I'd be the first to admit the example I'm presenting isn't the …
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