Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It's one thing when a "right wingnut" says it, but when the Director of the Congressional Budget Office does, you know you're in trouble: Under current law, the federal budget is on an unsustainable path, because federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run. Although great uncertainty surrounds …
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(Muza XL 0475) 1968? One of the genres of Mass music that never quite got off the ground was the "rock Mass." Part of the problem was that rock Masses aren't very participatory in the sense that people can easily sing along with the music; it's more of a "spectator sport." But the other problem …
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Tom Dugan of Chattanooga's mass transit authority thinks so: CARTA Executive director Tom Dugan told authority members Thursday that up to one-fifth of the people working at the new Volkswagen plant may opt to ride buses to work, rather than driving their own vehicles. That's because the parking lot for the new plant is huge, …
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From La Gringa's Blogicito (you need to read it all): Mr. President, I am the son of a much beloved former president of Honduras who was overthrown in 1963 by a military coup d’etat. I have in my possession the letter of solidarity that President John F. Kennedy wrote to my father. I understand better …
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Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh... http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x9vh4r "I do think that there's a different quality to what used to be Cominskey Field vs. Wrigley," President Obama told Bob Costas during an interview that aired during Tuesday night's MLB All-Star Game. Or so Chairman Barack opines. In communist countries, it was common …
The summer before I graduated from prep school, we left Palm Beach. My mother had had back surgery and we needed to live in a single level house. We didn't move far, just to Boynton Beach, about 50 km down the road. A New Church...A New Parish I had started attending the Catholic church in …
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The Episcopal Church House of Bishop's passage of Resolution D025--affirming gay and lesbian people in all parts of the life of the church, including all levels of ministry--is both a tragedy and a gift, depending on how you look at it. As it represents the final repudiation of the Christian sexual ethic, it's a tragedy. …
Many of you wonder why I, now holed up in a Pentecostal church, take so much interest in the Anglican/Episcopal world. Much of that answer is here, but there's the opposite question: with that interest, why did you leave the Episcopal Church to start with? One lesson from teaching is that a worked example is …
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Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori fires a shot across the bow at the Church of England (HT bb): She urged Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to remember the "pain of many Episcopalians in several places of being shut out of their traditional worship spaces, and the broken relationships, the damaged relationships between people who …
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Palm Beach Day School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSnZ5tjDlLY Above: the opening ceremony during Field Day at Palm Beach Day School, 20 April 1968. For intramural competition the school was divided into two teams, the "Pelicans" (blue uniforms) and "Flamingoes" (yellow uniforms.) Both my brother and I were in the latter. (View the video in QuickTime/iTunes format.) Right: A …
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