Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
This had to happen sooner or later, and it did in Sam Harris' op-ed piece for the New York Times: One can only hope that these convictions will not affect his judgment at the institutes of health. After all, understanding human well-being at the level of the brain might very well offer some “answers to …
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It's generally true that "champagne tastes and caviar dreams" involve a yacht somewhere. Today most of them are fibreglass creations, but as soon as he could see his way clear, my father got us into the era of "iron men and wooden ships." Well, at least the wooden ships... Before we got there: the course …
Shortly after my family moved to Palm Beach, my mother visited the Embassy Travel Bureau to make some arrangements to go to Europe. The Bureau was owned by Nigel and Yvelyne "Deedy" Marix (Deedy was later Mayor of Palm Beach.) Nigel, a very proper Englishman, asked my mother, "Have you ever been abroad?" "All my …
It is an enduring mystery why US pundits should see a difference between the philosophy of Democrats (who stand for spending more than you raise) and the Republicans (who stand for raising less than you spend). ROFL, it it weren't true. From this analysis of California's debacle.
My father always maintained that, when buying yachts, you could never go smaller when purchasing a new one; you always had to go larger. That's the way he bought our boats; first it was a 36', then the 51' (the one we hit the reef with.) Our less than stellar navigation notwithstanding, that boat was …
One of the pleasures we enjoyed during our years in Palm Beach were our travels in our family yachts. Our family has a long history of power boating going back to the latter years of the nineteenth century. From South Florida our favourite destination were the Bahama Islands, at the time making their transition from …
Readers of this blog have seen the antics of our Applehead Siamese Cat, Buff, who in his day braved both photographers and the high seas. Shortly after we left Palm Beach for Boynton Beach he taught us yet another important life lesson, and as usual he did it the hard way. Florida living has some …
Today, of course, is the fortieth anniversary of Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon--"one giant leap for mankind," to be sure. It was a great accomplishment and deserves to be remembered. It's easy to forget, however, that at the time there were many--especially on the left--who believed that the whole enterprise was a mistake, …
Those of you who keep up with this blog have noted the numerous posting of “Jonathan CHM” on my post Charismatic Anglicans: The Missing Link against things that go on in “Charismatic” churches. I’ve let him have space on this blog, and now it’s time to reply. First: I’ve received “heads-up” from another one of …
Background In the fall of 1994 Regent University dedicated its Law and Government Building. At the time the exective director of the American Centre for Law and Justice (ACLJ)--which is housed in this building--was Keith Fournier, a major figure in the Catholic Charismatic renewal. Fournier was passing out copies of his then new book, A …
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