Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fans in Dudley, MA, need to do the math: Voters last night added language to a town by-law that will make it illegal to own more than three cats without a kennel license, though Selectman Steven Sullivan said housing three felines was already a violation. The local rodents are already …
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Just a few random thoughts on this: First, the crow to eat: I assumed that assaults on Bob McDonnell by the WaPo and other media would sink him in a serious contest, esp. in Northern Virginia. They didn't; that's a testament to the quality campaign that he ran (which connected with VA voters) and the …
Continuing the "Top 40" music alluded to in the novel The Ten Weeks is the Osmond Brothers' "One Bad Apple." The Osmond Brothers were certainly the main "competitors" to the Jackson 5 at the time. It's interesting to note that, while the Osmonds were (and are) Mormons, the Jackson 5 were Jehovah's Witnesses, and that …
This, from a place I'm well familiar with: Bryan, TX, and the station that was television for Aggies without cable: http://www.thenewsroom.com/mash/swf/cube.swf?a=V3829976&m=931633
But that won't stop LOTR producer Barrie Osborne from trying: Producer Barrie Osborne cast Keanu Reeves as the messiah in The Matrix and helped defeat the dark lord Sauron in his record-breaking Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now the Oscar-winning American film-maker is set to embark on his most perilous quest to date: making a …
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The electrifying news that the "handpicked" Republican candidate for New York's 23rd Congressional District is throwing in the towel is good news for conservatives who were supporting the Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman. But it's also a good lesson in why party regulars are better off more often than not letting the rank and file …
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It's that time of year again. Everywhere we see these Halloween decorations with all of these fake black cats and pumpkins. So we wanted to show you a real black cat and a real pumpkin together, and we think they're a big improvement over the fake stuff. Fact and fantasy have a strange way of …
And they are looking ahead to a generational leadership transition, complete with Ivy Leaguers: This month, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon went to Washington to introduce As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen, his autobiography that, according to the Moon-owned Washington Times, "recounts the joys and challenges, the teachable moments and the monumental experiences of his life …
"American as Mother, apple pie and the flag" used to be an expression of things that united us in this country. Maybe that's why life in these United States has been a little too interesting for me: my mother and I didn't see eye to eye on many things, and when we were in the …
The trip through the music alluded to in the novel The Ten Weeks will take a mellow turn this week with Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind."Â Lightfoot is the only Canadian represented in this list. This is a relatively new performance, but this is still a very smooth and beguiling song and …
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