From today’s Writer’s Almanac:
Today is the birthday of the man who wrote the most famous inspirational poem about aviation — a sonnet about aviation — John Gillespie Magee Jr., born in Shanghai, China, in 1922, the son of missionaries. He was an American, but like thousands of other young Americans he served with the Royal [...]
So many thoughts this week leading up to Father’s Day. It was Father’s Day last year when we first faced the possibility of cancer coming back into my father’s life. This morning I spoke for awhile with a father of two young girls who is struggling with their discipline, taking me back to the early [...]
“Brothers in Arms” by Dire Straits is one of the most haunting songs I’ve ever know. I bought the album because of the “Money for Nothing” song when it came out back in, what, 1985? I really liked the song, but it was cemented for me when it was used in a memorable episode of [...]
There’s a site called Grab.it TV that has collected the top 20 music videos from every week starting when MTV debuted all the way through Napster. If you go to the site you can check out what the most popular videos were for any week of significance to you in this time period and click [...]
“I’d feel like a caveman, if they existed … and they didn’t.”
— Ned Flanders
A Boston University sociologist is undertaking a study to learn more about the “evangelical intelligentsia”.
Study to crack evangelical stereotypes
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals.
Educated people have [...]
One day last week I was driving home from work listening to Hugh Hewitt and he introduced an audio clip from a guest speaker at Obama’s church. Unbidden, my mind pictured a black guy.
Then Hugh said the speaker was Father Michael Pfleger; my mind then pictured “Catholic” and “white guy.” Then the cut played [...]
What was shaping up as a pretty strong weekend of blog traffic here, thanks to Manival #5, disappeared, literally, in a puff of smoke. My web host service suffered a fire in their facility, damaging its infrastructure but not the servers. This took all the served blogs off-line for (at least in my case) about [...]
As long as you rub it with rosemary or rosemary extract, that is.
To Block The Carcinogens, Add A Touch Of Rosemary When Grilling Meats
ScienceDaily (May 24, 2008) — Rosemary, a member of the mint family and a popular seasoning on its own, also has benefits as a cancer prevention agent. Apply it to hamburgers and [...]
So we’re sitting around tonight talking about an upcoming event and I mention that someone we know said he will be there with bells on, and the Reverend Mother says, “I hope he’s wearing more than that, because that’s not someone I want to see with nothing more than bells on,” and I say, “Oh, [...]
Actor and comedian Harvey Korman has passed away at the age of 81. I loved watching him and the gang on the old Carol Burnett Show, where he was recognized with four Emmys and a Golden Globe, and he had a memorable role in the funniest (imho) Mel Brooks film ever, Blazing Saddles as Hedy, [...]
