Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I hope someone is listening to this: Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke Energy Corp., covering nearly all the households in southern Indiana for three years, they were able to compare energy consumption before and after counties began observing daylight-saving time. Readings from counties that had already adopted daylight-saving time provided …
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It seems that our mainstream media won't get off the subject of tithing, and it also seems that Russell Earl Kelly is making the most of it. Some of you remember I went back and forth with Dr. Kelly last fall on this subject: the pieces were as follows: The Backlash Against Tithing Pickett's Charge …
Since the cases involving same-sex civil marriage have finally reached the California Supreme Court, it may be helpful to repeat comments on this from an earlier post: Allowing the state to dictate the terms and conditions of that institution as blithely as American Christians do is a mistake. We’ve already seen that many of those …
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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 …
