Monday, June 18, 2012

It Isn't Often...

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...that a major star bursts onto the silver screen seemingly from nowhere. Which was one of the reasons Jennifer Lawrence, the incredibly ma...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

The Helix

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[Inasmuch as I just recently had a most striking reminder of the power of prayer, it seems appropriate that I reprise the following article,...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

In The Usual Case...

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...I would let the post below stand as my tirade for the day. However, I have lately taken to refreshing my acquaintance with the works of t...

Lawless

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By now, the entire spiral arm has heard about the decision of His Majesty Barack Hussein Obama the First (long may he reign) to suspend the ...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

A Friday Assortment

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1. More on elitism. Among the aspects of "traditional" elitism that baffle (and often irritate) outsiders is the impenetrable el...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Pieties

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[This was first published at the long-lamented Palace Of Reason, on March 29. 2002] A recent, tax-funded study, conducted by the Public S...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Standards And Elitism

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The C.S.O. and I went to see Ridley Scott's new movie Prometheus just this past Sunday, and were blown away by it. If you haven't s...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Nukes For Whom?

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In all the foofaurauw over the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, what the United States can and should do to prevent it, and what Israel wil...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Everything But The Relevant Facts Dept.

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Since I'm a software engineer, you'd expect me to be alert to developments and trends in that field. You'd be wrong. When it co...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Food Chain: For Corpus Christi Sunday

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We who believe often speak of the need to "grow in faith." I've never been certain exactly what that means. But as time has pa...
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Payment Plans

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The longer I've pondered it, the more firmly I've concluded that the principal economic ailment of American society is the installme...
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Saturday, June 9, 2012

The Sovereign Power Of Indifference

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Consider the following schematic for a brief political exchange: Speaker 1: [Orates at length about some "cause" he deems import...
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Friday, June 8, 2012

Mob Metastases

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Yes, yes, I know this is supposed to be a Day of Blogging Silence, to "protest" Brett Kimberlin and his ilk and the tactics they...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Americans

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By now, you've seen the video of the weeping "Democracy died tonight" jackass, inconsolable because the union-backed and promo...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Wishin'...And Hopin'...And Prayin'

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...are what an awful lot of folks are doin' this morning, now that the Wisconsin recall election is behind us. The Left is straining to...
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Recession Within a Recession

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Events in Europe appear to be causing unrest in markets.  Again.  Or perhaps reflecting unrest, depending on your point of view.  Things ha...