Reflection RL 310 (1974) If there's one genre that's mostly AWOL from the "Jesus Music" era, it's prog. To a great extent that's still the case; a major exception is this dance troupe, which sets their Christian dance to some very good prog music. We've featured prog on this site (especially this.) But at the …
Next Thing, They'll Start Declaring Students as "Unmutual"
Syracuse University leads the way: Syracuse University wants student to combat hate and report bias incidents to the administration when they encounter them on campus. Given how broadly the university defines bias, it's surprising that students have time for anything else. According to Syracuse, bias involves "telling jokes," "excluding or avoiding others," using the phrase …
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What College Used to Look Like, and a History of Tau Beta Pi
What a "college man" used to look like, in this case my grandfather, C.H. Warrington, who is at the right. He started out at the University of Illinois but ended up at Lehigh, where he graduated with a Civil Engineering degree in 1912. (It was another eighty-five years before a member of the family would …
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Happy New Year, Comrades, and Thinking About the Class Struggle
To the right is a Soviet New Year card; I've featured these before. If they look suspiciously like Christmas cards, well, that's just the genre... As it happens, this New Year isn't one our counterparts on the left have looked forward to ever since That Man With the Big Hair won a couple of months …
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A Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noël from Positive Infinity
Above is a Christmas card sent by my great-uncle, James N. Warrington. Evidently the Francophone bent in the family predates marrying into the progeny of New France. Yohttps://vulcanhammer.info/2017/08/18/california-series-pile-hammers/u can read more about him and his accomplishments here.
Prayer for Rosh Hashanah
From the Jewish High Holiday Prayer Book: O God, divine Ruler of the universe, as the twilight of the old year fades into the night that marks the birth of another year, we gather together in Thy house with mingled emotions, mindful of the blessings and the sorrows Thou hast seen fit to lay upon …
Advice to Graduates: The Two Promises I Made to Myself
It may seem an odd time to do a pseudo-graduation piece. Obviously the University of Tennessee thinks so: this weekend I am supposed to officially receive my PhD degree, but the university, having spent a great deal of money on a new, traditional looking quad, doesn't do an August graduation ceremony, with a graduation speech …
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An American Children's Book in the Name of Allah
No, this is not CAIR's newest idea of subversion. Look to the right at a page from the 1913 edition of the Arabian Nights by Frances Jenkins Olcott, an American librarian. There at the top is the traditional Islāmic invocation "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful," which I have seen (with variations) …
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Now Audi Cashes In on Ramadan
Not to be outdone by Renault, Audi has their own Ramadan special for Bahrainis: For Americans, Renault is an abstraction; they have not marketed motor vehicles in this country for many years. Audi is another matter altogether: not only are they active here but a part of Volkswagen, which has an American plant and is …
Renault and Ramadan Go Together
I'm not quite sure how it came about, but somehow I got on the list for a number of spammers in the Gulf States. In any case, I'm passing along the following, an ad for Renault during Ramadan from Bahrain: It also came in Arabic, but I'll leave it at this. Hope the dealership hides …
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