Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Although the press covers it as if it's a total shock, North Korea's nuclear test is anticlimactic. Everybody--well, almost--knew they were working on nuclear weaponry. Now it's official. The main loser in this blast is South Korea, and not just for the obvious reason. They have been obsessed with reconciling themselves with their northern bretheren …
Continue reading "South Korea and their Neighbour: Calling Their Bluff"
At long last, we are entering the season where most Americans who do take interest in the November election actually take that interest. I find this botheresome but inevitable. Back in the spring I sat on a school Superintendent Selection Advisory Committee, and even with all of the rancour we had experiened over the years …
Continue reading "The Democrats and National Security: Dzerzhinskii’s Dilemma"
The Mark Foley thing--which, of course, does touch South Florida, as one would expect--seems to get deeper. Now we know that the Miami Herald of all papers sat on emails from Foley to the pages. Why? They weren't explicit enough, and since he was a known homosexual... Traditionally, the Herald isn't known to duck a …
Continue reading "When the Herald Sits on a Story, Something is Wrong"
The Republicans got another--and unneeded--setback in their quest to retain control of the House of Representatives with the resignation of Representative Mark Foley over his sexually charged emails to some of his pages. The fact that these are disgusting and that he needs to go is not in question, at least not for us. The …
At the very end of the Bible, the following appears in the description of paradise: On each side of the river was a Tree of Life which bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (Revelation 22:2, Positive Infinity New …
Bill Clinton's performance in his interview with Chris Wallace reminded me too much of some of the things I used to see during union meetings in my old family business. All too often, when the grievance filed didn't have the merit they thought it had, at least one on the committee would blow up in …
Continue reading "Bill Clinton: Too Much Like a Union Meeting"
The call from the "Global South" Anglican primates for a separate chuch for conservatives in the Episcopal Church is not to everyone's taste, but it is inevitable. It's taken a lot of "Anglican Fudge"--to say nothing about institutional loyalty--for conservatives to remain in the Episcopal Church as long as they have. But the time has …
Continue reading "Anglicans after Kigali: Facing the Inevitable"
Any American who has dealt with a British "cousin" (for some of us, at least) has sooner or later detected a note of condesension about those poor rude Americans in the "colonies." Sometimes this condesension is justified, sometimes not. It is with some amusement, then, that we discovered that the Church of St. Mary the …
Continue reading "The Colonies are Actually Good for Something"
Earlier this year, my wife and I got a call from an old friend who was passing through town. He wanted to meet with us, so we met him at a restaurant. He came with his wife and daughter. Things were pleasant enough until he decided to do what he liked to do best: spring …
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