Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Surprises never cease in the world, least of all the news that the Dutch are having second thoughts about their wide open society to the point that they have a conservative Christian party in the government and are starting to backtrack on much of the open sex and drugs that have made the Netherlands legendary. …
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The great Chinese author Lu Xun said that "Everything requires careful consideration if one is to understand it." This certainly applies to the back and forth with Liam over same sex marriage and adoption. Characterising it as a debate is a stretch; from this side, it looks more like a barrage of name-calling, ad hominem …
The recent bombing (and attempting bombings) by physicians and engineers in the UK may have a greater casualty than just snarled airport security and throwing more people in jail. The fact that most of the current round of bombers are physicians, engineers and others with scientific training should put to rest the secularist lie that, …
The podcast of Who Shall Spread the Good News? ends this week with the final track, As the Rain. In the piece The Baptismal Covenant: The Contract on the Episcopalians, we expressed the following sentiment: ...we strongly suspect that the last covenant was strongly inspired by Peter Scholtes’ 1966 song "They’ll Know We Are Christians …
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Well, at least he did it in a Prius. But what did you expect of the grandson of the man who helped create the Interstate system (which is more than Al Gore II managed with the Internet!) So what we have here is the following: Generation 1 pushes for Interstate highway system. Generation 2 pushes …
President Bush's decision to extend executive clemency to Scooter Libby is a sensible way to resolve what has been one of the most dangerous prosecutions in recent memory. The job of a prosecutor is to obtain convictions for crimes committed, not to manufacture them and then send people to prison. The most recent "celebrity" example …
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A very insightful view about radical Islam from a combat veteran, including an overview of Muslim thinking that is sorely lacking in "Western" treatments of the subject.
It's impossible to resist making some comments about Responses Offered by the Executive Board and Clergy and Lay Deputations to General Convention of the Diocese of Southeast Florida to Questions contained in A Short Study Guide to Aid the Episcopal Church in Responding to the Draft Anglican Covenant as Prepared by the Covenant Design Group, …
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Ten years ago today, I went online, logged onto my new GeoCities site, and uploaded the first page and images of “The Wave Equation Page for Piling,” my first website. That website—which is still a part of the companion site vulcanhammer.net—was the beginning of a long odyssey which led to the site as it is …
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The recent Supreme Court decision of Meredith v. Jefferson County Public Schools looks to reverse a long history of decisions about the role of race in allocating public school students to achieve equality of education. The fact that there are people on both sides of the racial divide who agree with this decision is important …
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