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‘Miracle Poodle’ Survives Fall From Sky After Bird Attack I am pasting the whole link in here, in case others want to read the story, but if you do I’d just as soon you not share it with me. I much prefer the scenario in my imagination, which begins with the question how did the…
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And now there's a (non-)computer for people like Wendell Berry. (Hat tip to Jesse Canterbury.)
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and technology, this is an exciting breakthrough:
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That seems to be the rationale for the media attention paid to the latest bit of very ordinary religious speculation on the part of Stephen Hawking. It's a tribute to the authority and prestige of science and scientists–much of it deserved–that a scientist's views on almost anything, no matter how far removed from his area…
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Sunday Night Journal — May 15, 2011 Art and Fear, by David Bayles and Ted Orland. Originally published by Capra Press, 1994; current edition Image Continuum, 2010. * One thing that annoys me about my writing is that it’s so self-centered. It’s not just that I write about myself a lot, it’s also that even…
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The vicar general of our archdiocese is going to Rome. Our loss, Rome's gain. His background–Alabama Protestant convert–is similar to mine, which of course I always like to find in a church where I sometimes feel a bit of a cultural and ethnic outsider. The high opinion of him mentioned in this news story is…
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Weekend Music I listened to Tom Waits Nighthawks at the Diner for the first time a couple of days ago. He performs this story–it's not exactly a song, though it has a musical accompaniment, and I noticed that he didn't write it, which led me to discover that it was once something of a hit for…
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An email from Rob Grano: You all have heard of the Catholic TV network EWTN. I'm recommending to Fox that they change their name to EITN. EnhancedInterrogationTechniquesNetwork That's pretty much all they've talked about since Ben Ladin got nailed. The motto could be something like, "All torture talk, all the time." I haven't watched Fox lately,…
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This 1966 adaptation of Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target is worth seeing if you like detective stories. But Macdonald fans may, or rather should, find it disappointing. The plot is adapted in a reasonable way, but the portrayal of Macdonald's detective, Lew Archer, is badly flawed. He's played by Paul Newman, who insisted on renaming the…
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After our last hurricane I said I wasn’t going to leave for the next one(s), so I may end up a bit like this guy (or maybe just dead). The last line is funny.
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