Archive for January, 2007
« Previous Entrieslistening to the wind
Thursday, January 25th, 2007I am here in my room, hearing the wind rattle the screen in the window. I am very aware right now that mine is the coldest room in the house. Tonight might well be a blanket-plus-comforter night.
GNOMEish crazyness
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007Today, as I was updating the software on my iBook, I noticed that metacity was installed. I do not use metacity at all, much less on my iBook running MacOS X, so my natural reaction was to remove it. I was rather surprised to find that doing so was not all that straightforward. [...]
quote of the day
Thursday, January 18th, 2007“When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I’ve often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God — and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can [...]
a surprise from the media
Thursday, January 18th, 2007I am told that the story about the new imaging for babies in the womb did make it into the news here. That is quite a surprise.
See just how human
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007these babies are.[1] Is it any wonder that I see this story only in the British press? Our own media would never air this story, particularly not that opening paragraph.
Ms. Natasha Pearlman. “A crowded womb” Daily mail. 2007-01-16. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=429098&in_page_id=1799&in_a_source=&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=picbox&ct=5
quote of the day
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007There is more money available for ESCR with federal, state, and private sources than can currently be spent! It is Bush’s assertion of a moral principle, expressed through his policy, that embryos have intrinsic moral worth and should not be treated as harvestable crops, which is the actual cause of all the fuss.[1]
Mr. Wesley J. [...]
The European Union wants competition in utilities
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007The commissioner said she wanted to “unbundle” large companies such as Germany’s E.On, and Electricite de France - so that the businesses that generated power and supplied gas were not the same ones that controlled the network of pipelines.[1]
I wonder how that will square with the socialist governance of France.
BBC. “EU warns inefficient energy [...]
Curious reaction to disbelief
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007It must be really very comforting to be able to dismiss everyone who disagrees with you as uneducated. “Oh, he must be ignorant, or stupid, not to believe in global warming.” It is certainly far easier than actually questioning your assumptions. Today I read that the chief economist for Chrysler thinks that [...]
taxes & budgeting
Monday, January 8th, 2007As the Democrats take power in Congress, they, being Democrats, think first about our taxes. Back in the early days of the Republican majority in the House, a rule was passed requiring a three-fifths majority to raise taxes. Democrats elected not to repeal this rule: doing so would open them up to easy [...]
A link we ignore at great cost
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007[T]he Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy found that boys molested by men are almost four times more likely to become homosexual or bisexual than boys who weren’t molested. Homosexual activists don’t want you to know that, because it undermines the myth that people are “born gay.” Although homosexuals and bisexuals are less than 3% [...]
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