I hope you had a happy Vocation Day, also known as Labor Day. (Remember our crusade to take over that holiday and get it into the church year.) We did, meeting our new granddaughter Elizabeth and all.
I hope you had a happy Vocation Day, also known as Labor Day. (Remember our crusade to take over that holiday and get it into the church year.) We did, meeting our new granddaughter Elizabeth and all.
Our youngest daughter, Mary, had her baby! Her name is Elizabeth: So fair! So delicate!
In a jaw-dropping medical breakthrough, scientists have found a way to re-program adult cells, turning them into cells that have a completely different function. This does not involve stem cells, but regular cells. Excerpts from Scientists Reprogram Adult Cells’ Function – washingtonpost.com: Scientists have transformed
We’re hitting the road today and will be gone for the whole labor day weekend. See the top post for why. So I’m sure I’ll miss John McCain’s announcement about his vice-presidential nominee. And since I won’t be taking my computer, I won’t even be
Victor Davis Hansen, riffing on Obama’s prop of a classical temple for his big speech, shows how a knowledge of ancient literature and history can help us understand contemporary politics: Why and how did McCain catch up? Let us count the ways: the disastrous European
So what did you think about Barack Obama’s speech? This take sees two different–and clashing–motifs: Listen closely to the 46-minute address, however, and you heard two speeches crushed somewhat jarringly together. The first half, one suspects, was the speech that Obama felt he had to
Joe Eszterhas, who wrote the screenplay for “Basic Instinct” and other dark and sex-charged thrillers, has become a Christian in something much like a road to Damascus experience. Again, God breaks into the most unlikely of lives. We should praise God, along with the angels
This is not from a conservative screed but “Slate Magazine”: The wacky plagiarisms of Joe Biden. – By Jack Shafer: Biden didn’t merely borrow words and phrasings from Kinnock, which is a time-honored practice of candidates and their speechwriters and is almost never regarded as
Maureen Dowd is most definitely not a water carrier for the Republicans, so her account of the conflict between the Clintonistas and the Obamaites at the Democratic convention rings true. This Democratic convention has a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the
Sorry for the server problems we’ve been having, periodically preventing you and me from accessing this blog. The Dreamhost people, who host this blog, have been right on the case working on them, though, so I hope we’ve got things straightened out.
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