Yes, I’m following American Idol again, despite the way some of you have been giving me a hard time about this particular guilty pleasure. Last night the 13 finalists were selected. I would just like to note that I picked every one of the male
Yes, I’m following American Idol again, despite the way some of you have been giving me a hard time about this particular guilty pleasure. Last night the 13 finalists were selected. I would just like to note that I picked every one of the male
The last American veteran of World War I died at the age of 110. Frank Buckles enlisted in 1917, lying about his age, which was only 16. After that war, he worked in the civilian merchant marine. When World War II broke out, he was
Two Supreme Court cases. . . . (1) A man was shot. Just before he died, he said, “Rick shot me.” So Rick was arrested. The problem is, the Constitution requires that the accused be able to face the witnesses against him so they can
. . .would surely be Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. He was a life-long member of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Springfield, Massachusetts. Yesterday would have been his 107th birthday. Celebrating Dr. Seuss. What does Dr. Seuss tell you about Lutheranism, and what does
Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s Ministry of Minority Affairs, was assassinated for opposing that country’s anti-blasphemy law, which is being used to persecute his fellow Christians. He was the second official to be killed for taking this position. At the link, see also the video in which
I was glad that The King’s Speech took all of the top prizes at the Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and (the critical but much neglected category) Best Original Screenplay. The Lutheran Church of Canada has a nice reflection on how that
A new study has found that young people who are active on the internet are actually more engaged with civic affairs than those who are not. As opposed to the stereotype of teenagers plugged into their own virtual worlds and never interacting with real people and oblivious
The most cutting edge information technology meets the most ancient survival technology, as Google invests in weather-insurance, backed by meterological computing, for farmers. Google Inc.’s venture capital arm is backing a start-up founded by ex-Googlers that insures farms and other business against the whims of Mother Nature.
A man believes that a Bible verse teaches that there is oil in Israel. So he started Zion Oil & Gas Co. to find it. And apparently he has. Ask John Brown why he’s spent three decades looking for oil and natural gas reserves in
National Geographic reports on a NASA study of the climate effect of a “regional” nuclear war: The global cooling caused by these high carbon clouds wouldn’t be as catastrophic as a superpower-versus-superpower nuclear winter, but “the effects would still be regarded as leading to unprecedented
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