Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
The percipitous drop in American housing prices is causing a lot of the consternation in the financial markets these days. But it's not without precedent in the U.S., or at least in Texas, where many doutbtless remember their own housing prices "going south" in the wake of the oil bust in the early 1980's. The …
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Prince Harry doesn't care much for the centrepiece of his realm: But Harry, third in line to the British crown, didn't seem overly happy with his homeland's press, who have given generous coverage in recent years to his partying escapades in the nightclubs of London and elsewhere. "I don't want to sit around in Windsor," …
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Back in the fall, in response to my post St. Jerome's Idea of Bishops and Presbyters, Abu Daoud asked me the following: I am wondering how you square Jerome's idea with the much earlier statements by Ignatius of Antioch regarding the centrality of the bishop in the ministry of the church (ie, do nothing without …
Having been alive and remembering when Lyndon Johnson "nuked" Barry Goldwater with the "daisies" ad, I have to admit that her "red phone ad" is pretty powerful. One big problem: she's pitching it to the party of Dzerzhinskii’s Dilemma where it will not resonate as it could elsewhere. Below is the "archetype" of Clinton's current …
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Note: since I originally posted this, the technology has changed. Now we have rigs to directly convert vinyl to mp3 (although vinyl purists cringe at the thought.) But I'm not sure these are the best way to go; the turntables and cartridges aren't always the best. I still prefer a Mac for this and use …
The Ninth Circuit--of all judicial bodies--has ruled that the State (dare I say "People's Republic?") of California cannot regulate on their own emissions from ships entering California ports: A federal appeals court Wednesday rejected a state regulation that reduced emissions from ships, dealing a blow to California's attempt to combat one of the major sources …
Ten days ago, I opined the following in the wake of Northern Rock's nationalisation: The Brown government’s decision to nationalise Northern Rock takes us back to the days when Labour governments in the UK were wont to nationalise just about everything that moved–literally in the case of British Rail and British Leyland...If the Brown government …
George Bush's attack on Barack Obama's idea of negotiating with the likes of Raul Castro makes an earlier piece, The Problem with Americans Negotiating, worth repeating: The Iraq Study Group report highlights something that deserves better treatment than it receives in our political/media system: the problem with Americans negotiating for anything. Basically, Americans look at …
I have to confess that I was a little "buffaloed" by the story of the school district in Delaware which (mercifully) came to a settlement in litigation concerning religious expression in schools. One line, however, caught my special attention: Mrs. Dobrich’s decision to leave her hometown and seek legal help was made after a school …
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In the middle of my debate with "DJ" over what it means to be patriotic, another debate has surfaced: is John McCain, who was born in the Canal Zone, eligible to be President since he was born in the Panama Canal Zone, which is outside the continental United States? Let's take this issue apart on …
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