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The Perils of Multiculturalism

It "contradicts and is against our culture, our principles, our traditions, values, heritage and religion..."

From the Washington Post: “Hamas Objects to Possible Lessons on Holocaust in U.N.-Run Schools in Gaza“:

The prospect of United Nations-run schools in the Gaza Strip teaching children about the Holocaust has sparked fierce resistance this week from leaders of the Palestinian Hamas movement and forced international officials to confront a situation fraught with

Return of the Dog-Heads

St. Augustine and the Cynocephali

An alert, though anonymous reader asks regarding the Dog-Heads discussed earlier:

Could you tell us WHAT the passage from St. Augustine is?  Lewis, in one of his "losing God in outer space" essays, also cites this, but gives a somewhat different summary of it.
Ask, it is said, and you shall be answered.  Ol' Auggie discusses the dog-heads, as well as other monstrous races, in The City of God, Chap. 16, Book 8.  And he writes just as you would expect one of those r

Cue Ominous Music

Do Not Push Back Shower Curtains Suddenly.

Fantasy Rap

They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard!!!

Where is Stephen King When You Really Need Him?

House Hunting

My daughter has been looking for houses so she can move out of our basement.  The other day she and Margie visited a house in the townships.  Every room was full of stuff.  There was hardly a square inch of floor that was clear.  They opened one bedroom door and the entire room was full to the ceiling with clothing.  Just stacks of clothing.  She did not see a sign of a bed anywhere in the house.  There were two cars in the garage, and both cars were full of stuff.  There were newsp

Quote of the Day

Youth Wants Change!

When one thinks of how much energy is contained in young people’s need to explode, it is no wonder just how unsubtle and undiscriminating they show themselves to be in choosing this or that cause: What attracts them is the spectacle of the zeal enveloping the cause and, as it were, the sight of the burning fuse-not the cause itself. Subtle seducers understand this well and carefully emphasize the prospect of the explosion and disregard the reasons favoring the cause: for it is

Objectum Sexuals

Calling Horatio and His Philosophy

www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/love-objects/article1259075/

It was freezing in Paris, that day in January, 2004, when [Erika LaBrie:] and a friend set eyes upon the Eiffel Tower. When they entered, a special feeling came over her; one she can only describe as intense love, a chemical attraction. That feeling of finding The One.

“Everyone was all bundled up and I felt so warm inside,” she says, recalling the moment with fondness. “I thought

Zen in the Age of Tech

O! The Joule in the Lotus 1-2-3



(H/T Brother Guy)

Social Texts

Passing the Turing Test?

The link below will take you to a page that generates postmodern texts:

www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

It is explained thusly:

The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator. ....

The Postmodernism Generator was written by Andrew C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars, and modified very slightly by Josh Larios (this version, anyway. There are others out there).

Today's Humor

The Comic Strip Non-Sequitur