Susan Atkins, the follower of Charles Manson and the murderer of the pregnant Sharon Tate, is dead. The news account of her death tells quite a story, going from unimaginable depravity to the Cross: One night in August 1969, Manson dispatched Atkins and others to
You may recall that I recently blogged about a play I recently attended entitled Wittenberg, which is about three denizens of that university interacting with each other: Faustus, Hamlet, and Luther. Click here for my review, which you may want to review for what follows.
Do you remember in Beowulf about the dragon’s gold-horde, and how after Beowulf died killing the dragon his people rejected the treasure, burying it under a burrow? Well, a bloke with a metal detector may have found it. The treasure has over 1500 pieces–gold, silver,
At the big conclave of world leaders in New York City and Pittsburg, President Obama is majorly dissing the British Prime Minister, the Labour Party’s Gordon Brown. From a British newspaper: Gordon Brown lurched from being hailed as a global statesman to intense embarrassment tonight,
The Dodgers are in town, on the verge of giving the Nationals their 100th defeat. I was pleased to learn that the team from L.A. has a player from Taiwan named Chin-lung Hu. I’m sure Southern California is already sick of the Abbott & Costello
Electric cars are quiet. Therefore, no one can hear them coming. Therefore, they are hazardous. So engineers are working to develop artificial sounds for them. Under consideration are chimes, melodies, and a whirring sound. Once all cars are electric, can you imagine the sounds of
A lunar probe sent off by India has found evidence that the moon has water. That may make a moon colony possible. But it might not be an American colony. I wonder if this breakthrough may signal a shift away from American scientific and technological
Some time ago, I enlisted the aid of a student, Stewart, to update my blog software. He also added all kinds of bells and whistles that you can’t see but that make my blogging much easier. Now Stewart and some of his comrades at Patrick
Joe Carter at First Things alerts us to an important post from David Koyzis at Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist: Why abortion is different. He says that, yes, there are many political issues that we should be concerned about. But abortion is not just one
Art historian Birgit Schwarz is making the case that Adolf Hitler, who considered himself an artistic genius, was motivated by the bohemian notion of many artsy types even today, in which they consider themselves above the norms that govern the uncreative masses, that ordinary rules
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