Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
There are some anniversaries that are harder to note than others. For me, this is one of them. Twenty years ago today, my father, Henry G. Warrington, passed into eternity in a South Florida hospital. He was the first of my immediate family to do, but certainly not the last: my brother followed suit six …
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It's not easy to keep up with life and the world's events at the same time, especially if your job isn't--or jobs aren't--to keep up with all of it. Nevertheless I'd like to put down some random thoughts on the subject. Most of it has appeared before in one form or another on this blog, …
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Last Friday evening my wife and I got to do something that doesn't happen very often around here: go to a movie première, in this case that of the documentary Harriet's Secret. The film is produced and narrated by Dean Arnold, who is a well-known figure in this community. As the trailer conveys, it's an …
When Joseph was put in charge of Egypt by Pharaoh, the following happened: He had him ride in the chariot of the second-in-command. Men ran ahead of him and shouted, "Make way!" Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of Egypt. (Genesis 41:43 GW) This reminds me of the Canadian journalist John Fraser's account of the departure …
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Including, in some places, DUI on a lawnmower: A Northern Colorado man was arrested on suspicion on DUI but it was what he was driving that makes this case unusual. He was driving a lawnmower. Police said Kenneth Welton was driving drunk from bar to bar along a very busy 8th Avenue in Garden City …
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But as East Carolina University, that's not necessarily the case: In an email obtained by Campus Reform, Assistant Professor Eli Hvastkovs, who teaches chemistry at East Carolina University (ECU), instructed his students to prepare a “family friendly” 35 word personal statement that mentions future plans or “thanks someone.” The students, however, were explicitly forbidden from thanking …
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From time to time I've made many disparaging remarks about the Scots-Irish, some of whom I count as ancestors. These range from their inauspicious (but prophetic) arrival in this land to discussing Grady McWhiney's research, which I find priceless. I think that understanding this ethnic group is crucial to understanding these United States more than …
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(That's a barbecue grill under the casket spray.)
...in William Penn's Philadelphia. This, from Robert Carse's Ports of Call: But the Scottish Presbyterians who came in from North Ireland were the worst. They knew their rights, they said, and they would have those satisfied before they stepped foot out of Penn's town of brotherly love. Most of the Scots were big, rangy men, …
To prevent fiascos like this, which took place earlier today at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: Due to a scheduling error by a staff member in one of our emergency response offices, the test of our system occurred at 12:12 a.m. instead of 12:12 p.m. This was a case of simple human error. We …
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