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April 22, 2010
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Baseball Season
Ah, the Fordham Rams. Playing Iona. Words cannot describe:
Ah, the Fordham Rams. Playing Iona. Words cannot describe:
April 18, 2010
Politics in the Pulpit
Religious Congregations as Political Beasts
Beware Theocracy! The White Evangelicals are Coming! The White Evangelicals are Coming!
Oh, wait. No, they're not. Duke University did a survey. The results are:
The most politically active congregations are Black Protestant and Catholic. The article says that synagogues are in line with this. Both mainline and evangelical white Protestants are by contrast less engaged.
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Beware Theocracy! The White Evangelicals are Coming! The White Evangelicals are Coming!
Oh, wait. No, they're not. Duke University did a survey. The results are:
The most politically active congregations are Black Protestant and Catholic. The article says that synagogues are in line with this. Both mainline and evangelical white Protestants are by contrast less engaged.
www...
April 17, 2010
The Breeze Wafts Hither
Tidings of Great Joy.
The USPS delivered unto me a cheque from Tor in prompt payment for the publication of Up Jim River. It is now up to you to do your part by buying a sufficient number of copies to repay this investment, lest the Lords of Publication decide I am too paltry a writer to be worthy of their beneficence. 
In the same envelope, an unexpected Easter Egg, a lagniappe; to wit, an additional cheque for additional sales of the audiobook of Eifelheim. Eifelheim is indeed the gift tha...
The USPS delivered unto me a cheque from Tor in prompt payment for the publication of Up Jim River. It is now up to you to do your part by buying a sufficient number of copies to repay this investment, lest the Lords of Publication decide I am too paltry a writer to be worthy of their beneficence. In the same envelope, an unexpected Easter Egg, a lagniappe; to wit, an additional cheque for additional sales of the audiobook of Eifelheim. Eifelheim is indeed the gift tha...
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Quote of the Day
We have -- but do not need -- a pestilent swarm of exceedingly clever persons who call themselves public servants when everything about them and us proclaims that they are in fact our masters. They make laws (and regulations and judicial decisions that have the force of laws) faster and more assiduously than any factory in the world makes chains; and they lay them on us. -- Gene Wolfe, "The Best Introduction to the Mountains"
Joke of the Day
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We have -- but do not need -- a pestilent swarm of exceedingly clever persons who call themselves public servants when everything about them and us proclaims that they are in fact our masters. They make laws (and regulations and judicial decisions that have the force of laws) faster and more assiduously than any factory in the world makes chains; and they lay them on us. -- Gene Wolfe, "The Best Introduction to the Mountains"
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April 9, 2010
m_francis @ 2010-04-09T18:46:00
What Kind of Country Is This
when stuff like this happens?
A Pakistani-American cab driver in New York lived in "a mixed but mostly white area of Queens , with many Italian-Americans, some Jews, and he thought some Irish. After the [9/11:] attacks, some of the men had come to him.
'My wife does not go out without a head cover,' he explained. The men had come to tell him that if anyone bothered her, or his family, he must come to them.
'I must tell them and must not be afraid. Do you know,...
when stuff like this happens?
A Pakistani-American cab driver in New York lived in "a mixed but mostly white area of Queens , with many Italian-Americans, some Jews, and he thought some Irish. After the [9/11:] attacks, some of the men had come to him.
'My wife does not go out without a head cover,' he explained. The men had come to tell him that if anyone bothered her, or his family, he must come to them.
'I must tell them and must not be afraid. Do you know,...
Keeping Health Costs Down
Welcome to the Future
The following musings are by James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal:
The following musings are by James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal:
"How can we learn to say no?" asks David Leonhardt, "Economic Scene" columnist for the New York Times. Put your tongue on your palate, aspirate and round your lips? Nah, that's not what he means. His column is on health-care policy:
The federal government is now starting to build the institutions that will try to reduce the soaring growth of health care costs. There will be a group to compare...
April 5, 2010
We Know Where You Live
On the Methodology of Science
Greenpeace had recently the following on its blog:
Greenpeace had recently the following on its blog:
Emerging battle-bruised from the disaster zone of Copenhagen, but ever-hopeful, a rider on horseback brought news of darkness and light: "The politicians have failed. Now it's up to us. We must break the law to make the laws we need: laws that are supposed to protect society, and protect our future. Until our laws do that, screw being climate lobbyists. Screw being climate activists. It's not working. We...
April 3, 2010
Magnetic Security Blankets
Meanwhile the Hard Scientists Wonk On
If the Young Sun was 75% fainter than the present sun, as usually thought, how did life ever get started? Earth should have iced over permanently. One possible answer comes from study of κ Ceti, which is very like the sun is thought to have been in its early life. Apparently, its greater activity makes up for its dimness and throws a protective magnetic blanket over any prospective planets there. If the same is true of Young Sol, it would shield the ea...
If the Young Sun was 75% fainter than the present sun, as usually thought, how did life ever get started? Earth should have iced over permanently. One possible answer comes from study of κ Ceti, which is very like the sun is thought to have been in its early life. Apparently, its greater activity makes up for its dimness and throws a protective magnetic blanket over any prospective planets there. If the same is true of Young Sol, it would shield the ea...
April 2, 2010
Skiffy and the Jesuits
Aliens on the Roof of the World
A great deal of SF deals with the encounters between alien beings -- usually Earthlings being one of them. This is not such an unprecedented thing, for the history of Earth has been largely the history of encounters between aliens. Here is a book review of a book detailing one such encounter: between a Jesuit on a mission [to go where no (Western) man has gone before:] to Tibet. The author is a Tibetanist and a Catholic theologian, and so well equipped to suss ...
A great deal of SF deals with the encounters between alien beings -- usually Earthlings being one of them. This is not such an unprecedented thing, for the history of Earth has been largely the history of encounters between aliens. Here is a book review of a book detailing one such encounter: between a Jesuit on a mission [to go where no (Western) man has gone before:] to Tibet. The author is a Tibetanist and a Catholic theologian, and so well equipped to suss ...
Book Announcement
Up Jim River
Copies have arrived today at Rath ui Fhloinn! Woo hoo.
Art by Sparth Contructs
In case you are wondering, he also did THE JANUARY DANCER
Copies have arrived today at Rath ui Fhloinn! Woo hoo.
Art by Sparth Contructs
In case you are wondering, he also did THE JANUARY DANCER
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