Saturday, May 20, 2006
For the Families of the Dying, Coaching as the Hours Wane - New York Times
re: A trend in hospice "borrows from Eastern religions: to honor the end of life as well as the beginning." Includes doulas doing vigils with families (Jane Gross, reporting in New York Times, May 20, 2006)...
Bloomberg.com: Bernardini Wins Preakness Stakes; Barbaro Is Injured (Update2)
re: Preakness, Barbaro update...
SFO Mom: Now Coming to a Mall Near You
re: Planned Parenthood is opening "express clinics" in malls...
miss_o_hara's Xanga Site - Preakness Wrap - Say A Prayer
re: saying a prayer for the horse Barbaro and his people, after he broke his leg in the race...
CBC News: Three Gorges Dam reaches full height
re: last batch of concrete poured on main wall of dam. Still needs generator turbines and ship lift...
VOA News - China Completes Construction of World's Largest Dam
re: the Three Gorges Dam completed...
Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Myths & Mysteries - Esoteric secrets, Scottish Freemasonry and the building of the American dream
re: Scottish Masons are happy to point out the number of Freemasons involved in the American Revolution, how their ideals could have shaped America, plus the Scottish stonemasons who were invited to America to build the White House...
Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Rosslyn Chapel - Watch our Rosslyn Chapel videos
re: podcasts and feature articles on the famous Scottish chapel...
Friday, May 19, 2006
The Paragraph Farmer: Chinese cooking
re: Chinese sages read the Old Testament, and come up with the root of the matter, i.e. Thou mayest...
Brandywine Books: The Abraham Lincoln Code
re: Dan Brown more or less got his Christians and his Gnostics backwards...
Popular baby names
re: Social Security Administration data on baby names, sortable by year, name, state, decade...
Sowing in Good Soil - Prison Fellowship
re: the importance of developing a Christian worldview, noting the danger to people with disabilities if human life is only seen in utilitarian terms...
USATODAY.com - On Deadline: Archives
re: Christie's auction house to help Paramount clean out its vaults, selling off about 4,000 Star Trek items October 5-7...
USATODAY.com - On Deadline: Archives
re: seven jurors putting out a book on the Scott Peterson trial, to be published this fall...
MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
re: four people indicted in 1998 eco-terrorist fires at Vail ski resort...
The Happiness Experts -- What Do they Know?
re: Albert Mohler, well-known Baptist leader, finds some common ground with Frank Feredi, "a leftish academic in Britain." Neither thinks well of the push to make "happiness" the goal of school curriculum, etc...
Are We Mere Chemicals? Happiness as a Prescription
re: doctors commonly prescribing pills for 'unhappiness' as if biochemistry is always the cause and the cure...
Rocky Mountain News: Members of Opus Dei try to set record straight
re: members of Opus Dei try to counter false hype...
Wittingshire: On Anthropomorphism
re: G.K Chesterton on how a walk down a lane at night could cure modern students of at least one silly notion...
OpinionJournal - Featured Article
re: Roger Scruton gives an overview of John Stuart Mill, born 200 years ago May 20...
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Popular Mechanics - Super Cops Protect America's Cities, Ports, Borders and Airports
re: new techology and tactics are now in play...
The Book Den: "The White Ships and the Red" by Joyce Kilmer
re: a Joyce Kilmer poem about the sinking of the Lusitania...
The Book Den: The Zek Who Changed the World
re: history, and how Alexander Solzhenitsyn's short novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, helped change it...
The Book Den: The Book of the Dun Cow
re: Denny recommends The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, but for adults more than children...
Ron Turcotte - Horse Racing Legend
re: more on the French-Canadian jockey's background, including his early work as a logger (!)...
The Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund
re: helping jockeys who have suffered disabling injuries, including Secretariat's jockey, Ron Turcotte, crippled five years after his Triple Crown rides...
Raising Five: Works For Me Wednesday - The Knife
re: a blogger looking for matches to a no-longer-made kitchen knife she loves....
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Chron.com | Aircraft carrier sunk in Gulf to create artificial reef
re: The USS Oriskany has been sunk, in a new Navy program to turn old ships into artificial reefs...
Rocks In My Dryer: Yes, There ARE Still Places Like This
re: a tribute to her hometown, which she calls "Mayberry"...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Expat Yank: We Might At Least Give It A Chance
re: "...Madeleine Albright, democracy, "diplomacy", religion, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, South Africa, the USSR, China and Cuba..."...
NewHampshire.com - About NH - Floods
re: historic great floods in New Hampshire, plus info on flood control measures put in place after the 1936 flood...
Monday, May 15, 2006
New modesty : Catholic program fights back against fashion industry - Catholic Online
re: Pure Fashion started out as a Catholic group, but has grown more inclusive as it has grown. It promotes modest dress for girls in grades 8 through 12...
Power Line: Hagel to Martinez to Chance
re: according to Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation, current proposals from Senators Hagel and Martinez add up to allowing an estimated 103 million legal immigrants over the next 20 years, fully one third of the current population of the country...
hat tip: Bookworm Room
hat tip: Bookworm Room
Saturday, May 13, 2006
The Anchoress : I'm off on politics for a while - UPDATED
re: she's had it with politics for a while, but she does a good dressing down of both sides on her way out the door for a sanity break...
They're Taking Away Your Property for What? by Nicole Gelinas, City Journal Autumn 2005
re: eminent domain, "economic development," and the political racket...
Toxic Regulation by David Schoenbrod, City Journal Spring 2006
re: "Inflexible regulators stifle innovation and kill small businesses"...
Making Civil Justice Sane by Philip K. Howard, City Journal Spring 2006
re: proposing that judges should stop unreasonable lawsuits...
My Smart Puppy :: About My Smart Puppy
re: a website for dog/cat trainers and authors Brian Kilcommons and Sarah Wilson...
BIG BLUE WAVE: PARIS: Veiled anarchists harass pro-life protesters
re: public prayer event by SOS-Tout-Petits harassed by masked hoodlums...
Friday, May 12, 2006
United Press International - Religion & Spirituality - News, Opinion, Blog
re: Elise Ehrhard on "Roots of the 'Roe Effect'"...
The American Thinker: Airbus Loses Altitude
re: more on the ongoing 'airliner wars' between Boeing and Airbus...
Commentary: Corporatism Redux: Latin America, the Left, and the Church�s Challenge
re: the challenges facing Latin America, and what the Catholic Church might do to help...
K's Cafe The 30 Second Blog: Efficiency of Westminster Abbey's Staff
re: the 1799 epitaph of Anastasia, Countess of Kerry...
OpinionJournal : Wizard of Politics
re: John J. Miller takes a look at L. Frank Baum, the land of Oz, and the people who tried to insist that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was a parable of the Populist movement of the 1890s...
1010 WINS : Plane that struck Queens neighborhood subject to maritime laws
re: Larry Neumeister of AP reports that U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet has concluded, in a 78-page opinion, that a plane crash in Queens in November 2001 is subject to general maritime laws. This apparently makes it possible for people who sued to get higher damages...
Happy Catholic: Dance, Dance Evolution
re: six minute video of comedy dance routine by Judson Laipply...
Thursday, May 11, 2006
The Corner on National Review Online: Speaking of RU 486 [Ramesh Ponnuru]
re: excerpt from a letter from Ron Weddington, the co-counsel on Roe v Wade, to President-elect Bill Clinton, on the need to prevent poor people from having babies...
Betsy's Page: Tony Snow Can Do the Work of the Sham Ombudsmen
re: Tony Snow is correcting reporters who file misleading or inaccurate stories...
Betsy's Page: Stupid lawsuit of the year
re: an activist has filed a class action suit against a California ball team for giving out free tote bags last year for Mother's Day -- because he didn't get one. He wants $4,000 each for males and fans under 18 who were at the ball game...
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The Curt Jester: Another vocations director
re: Catholic vocations directors creating the so-called vocation crisis by turning away apparently orthodox men seeking the priesthood...
The Curt Jester: You're so Bain
re: woman has one-woman show called Baby Killer, based on her experiences working as a Planned Parenthood volunteer...
Happy Catholic: The Problem of Evil
re: reading through Peter Kreeft's Fundamentals of the Faith, and focusing on the chapter on evil...
IRAQ THE MODEL: The battle for Baghdad
re: Omar suggests that in securing Iraq's future it is time to stop thinking like chess players and start thinking "like soccer or basketball players or coaches during an ongoing match in which your team is behind in score"...
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Wittingshire: New Darwin Dissent List for the 60% of U.S. Doctors Skeptical of Darwinism
re: medical doctors who don't buy the neo-Darwinist view of human origins...
Saturday, May 06, 2006
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australia rescue in 'final stage'
re: the last, most dangerous part of the rescue begins, as the boring machine is pulled out and hand chipping is used for the final ten feet of rock and rubble...
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Petrol firm suspends chip-and-pin
re: Shell is having to suspend chip and pin transactions temporarily in 600 UK stations until it can be determined how money was siphoned from customers' accounts. "The racket is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police cheque and plastic crime unit."...
Friday, May 05, 2006
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- San Diego has 90 days to remove Mt. Soledad cross
re: a judge has ordered part of a 1954 Korean War memorial taken down...
Kicking Over My Traces : Are Square Notes Used to Notate Square Dances?
re: links to an Amy Welborn post on square-note notation...
daVinci Days-- Corvallis Oregon's 3-day festival celebrating art, science and technology
re: this year's event is July 14-16...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts: Radical Islam's Eruption
re: using Mark Bowden's new book, Guests of the Ayatollah, to put the 1979 hostage crisis into perspective...
Earl Woods Passes Away at 74
re: the father of Tiger Woods has died after a long battle with cancer...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
A World of Kindness: Morality and Private Property in the Torah
re: Rabbi Aryeh Spero discusses some of the precepts of a civilized society...
Pollution reports hurt CO2 emissions market : World : The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
re: Europe is found to have less carbon dioxide emissions than estimated for Kyoto, but this is not seen as a good thing because it is messing up the Emissions Trading System (ETS) of the European Union...
OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts: What Jane Jacobs Really Saw
re: Leonard Gilroy explains that a lot of urban planners who claim Jane Jacobs as their inspiration are sorely misreading/misrepresenting her messages...
OpinionJournal - White Guilt and the Western Past
re: Shelby Steele puts forth a theory about why America is so delicate with its enemies.
His new book White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (HarperCollins) comes out this week...
His new book White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (HarperCollins) comes out this week...
Monday, May 01, 2006
BBC NEWS | Africa | Asmara's last Jew recalls 'good old days'
re: emigration, death and revolution have left the city of Asmara, Eritrea, with only one native Jew, who looks after both the synagogue and the cemetery because there is no one else to do it...
BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | US tops 'congestion charge debt'
re: diplomats from the United States, with Nigeria not too far behind, plus Angola, Sudan, and Switzerland, are not paying "congestion fees" for driving around London. London officials are still trying to say it's not a tax...
RetroMental: Time Capsules
re: Michael Barrett (aka the one and only Slobokan) has started doing podcasts of informal interviews with people from all walks of life...
As I See It Now: I Live Where ...
re: another person doing an "I Live Where.." post, but happily not following the form. She paints a nice word picture of a nice small town...
Update: My goof. She did the I Am From... meme earlier. The "I Live Where" is a new one...
Update: My goof. She did the I Am From... meme earlier. The "I Live Where" is a new one...
As I See It Now: Homemaking Retreat, Anyone?
re: imagining getting homemakers together in her purposefully-old-fashioned home for a weekend, playing housewife and learning to have fun with the various tasks...
hat tip: Semicolon
hat tip: Semicolon
Power Line: Radical Stalinist chic
re: Scott Johnson writes about an upcoming Harvard Alumni Association tour of North Korea, and also mentions the book Political Pilgrims : Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society by Paul Hollander...
FrontPage magazine.com :: Andy Garcia's Thought Crime by Humberto Fontova
re: Humberto Fontova thinks Andy Garcia gets Cuban history right in his movie The Lost City...
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