March 2011
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Secret military project gone horribly wrong? Why haven’t we heard more about this? What are they not telling us? (Thanks to Janet Cupo.) (The handwriting on the sign says “The one on the right mugged my grandma.”)
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I've been saying the rosary on my way home from work for a while now (I know, not the best time for prayer, but I figure better to do it this way than not at all). And I've left work angry a number of times lately (arrived that way, too–things are not going well there).…
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Sunday Night Journal – March 20, 2011 (I generally try not to give away too much of the plot of a book or movie I’m discussing, but it’s almost impossible to discuss this one without giving away something about how it ends. Since that is more or less revealed, in broad terms, in the beginning,…
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From the fellow who does the xkcd comic, a chart putting the reported radiation levels at Fukushima in perspective. If you have trouble interpreting the chart or don't want to bother, here's a fact: everybody, every day, receives a small dose of radiation from natural sources, and the additional radiation measured at many places in the…
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Some very beautiful images for the day at Hearts of Space (scroll past the astronomical diagrams if you aren't interested). I hope everyone had a chance to see the really big and bright full moon last night. What other people experience as the first day of spring is more like the first day of summer…
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Just a note: I will be offline today, Friday (ok, the rest of today), and all Fridays of Lent.
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"Rush to Buy Iodine Pills Unnecessary in U.S."
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I have been trying to follow what's going on at the crippled Japanese nuclear plant, but it's very difficult because the press is being so hysterical. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to look at the Drudge Report again (yes, I still have the habit of checking it several times a day–I mean, it…
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I ran across this while searching for some piece of information about Goudge: Lydia McGrew at What’s Wrong With the World, a blog I read occasionally, with a brief introduction to Goudge’s work. She prefers books I haven’t yet read.
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Sunday Night Journal — March 13, 2011 This book has been highly recommended to me by more than one person whose opinion I respect. The title and subtitle certainly make it sound like my sort of thing. And I’ve been convinced from an early age (when I first read Keats’s “Ode On a Grecian Urn”)…
Light On Dark Water 