Archive for September, 2008
In One’s Own Backyard
Posted in Photography on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Amen
Posted in Commentary on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
Overheated
Posted in Literature on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an airport bookstore recently, I saw a NASCAR-themed Harlequin Romance. I never would have predicted this hybrid, of which Harlequin writes, “The rush of the professional race car circuit; the thrill of falling in love. These NASCAR romances are sure to keep you on the edge of your seat as you read about the [...]
School Days
Posted in Literature on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The old spurious hope and elegance of school days came back to him. How strange it was that school had nothing to do with life. The old talk of school as a preparation for life — what a bad joke. There was no relation at all. School made matters worse. The elegance and order of [...]
Connecting the Dots on Mockery and Torture
Posted in Religion on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1. “Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.” — Luke 23:11
“…he (Pilate) had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified. Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They [...]
Deliverance
Posted in Religion on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and chariot drivers.’ So Moses stretched his hand over the sea… The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharoah that had [...]
The Mail
Posted in Art on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A poster from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Chicago, 1940.
Designing with Radon
Posted in Commentary on September 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“It’s not that all granite is dangerous, but I’ve seen a few (countertops) that might heat up your Cheerios a little.”
– Stanley Liebert, CMT Laboratories, Clifton Park, N.Y., quoted in “What’s Lurking in Your Countertop” by Kate Murphy, New York Times, July 24, 2008
In Between
Posted in Literature on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“In a society like ours, it’s best to be either a prince or a peasant. Anything in between is too stressful.”
– The doorman, in Bangkok Haunts (2077) by John Burdett
And Amen
Posted in Commentary on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban … At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A [...]
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