Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I rest my case against those who insist that only those who excel academically (and of course those who go to the right schools) are worthy to direct our society with this, from (of all places) the New York Times: “The financial system nearly collapsed,” he said, “because smart guys had started working on Wall …
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In response to this posting about broadcaster Paul Roberts, I got the following response from WGOW (Paul's last radio station) Program Director Bill Lockhart: Towards the end of his (Paul's) life I visited him at Memorial Hospital (our Catholic hospital in Chattanooga) on a Sunday morning. A Lay Minister (Catholic) came in...offered communion (I declined...being …
We're one step closer to "ignition" between the Muslim and homosexual communities: Creteil Bébel is excluded The amateur soccer team, primarily made up of Moslem players from the Paris region, was excluded from their league because they refused to play against a homosexual club, Paris Foot Gay. The Leisure Soccer Commission wrote: “The Creteil Bebel …
I'm taking my series of videos of music alluded to in the novel The Ten Weeks in a different direction this week with Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown," a television performance that is very much from the time the song was released (and the setting for the novel too.) But it brings up something …
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New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris needs to think some things through: In contrast to the majority of scientists whose wondrous discoveries seem to inspire humility, today's advocates of scientism can be every bit as dogmatic as the William Jennings Bryans of yesteryear. We saw an example a week ago, when the New York Times …
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It's always been a puzzle to me (other than the Russians need for cash,) but this is the most sensible (and about the only) explanation I've seen yet: While Russia had, until recently, vetoed UN Security Council resolutions against the Iranian nuclear program, Medvedev suddenly hardened his rhetoric, mentioning sanctions as a possible course of …
When it comes to selling the property to the Palm Beach Day Academy: A bid to sell the Unity of the Palm Beaches for $3.65 million to the Palm Beach Day Academy failed to win the required approval from church members at an Oct. 4 vote. But the deal is not dead yet, say officials …
Our President is really in the tank this time: Venezuela's socialist leader Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that U.S. President Barack Obama had done nothing beyond wishful thinking to earn the Nobel Peace Prize. Chavez, who has mixed praise for Obama personally with criticism of his government's "imperialist" policies, said he thought it was a …
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I am sure that self-proclaimed evangelical Brent Childers is proud of himself for marching with the LGBT community in Washington: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans are a diverse, extraordinary, resilient, and passionate group of forgiving men and women. I wouldn't be standing beside them demanding full and equal treatment under the law and …
Roman Catholic blogger Ysais Martinez hits the nail on the head re Obama and the Middle East, in this letter to Asia Times Online: The problem with the Barack Obama administration is not its policy of containment, its biggest problem is its weakness. The Middle East is a place where you have to make deals …
