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Guess who made the Washington Post this weekend? “God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless.” You are Augustine! You love to study tough issues and don’t mind it if [...]
OUTRAGEOUS! Fredericksburg Mayor Bill Beck and Councilmen Scott Howson and Matt Kelly have all been found guilty of violating Virginia’s FOIA in e-mail coversations held during the summer! Now I can understand from a jurisprudence perspective that such a ruling is necessary to maintain the spirit of the law. But were these [...]
I just found the most ignorant political activist website on the web. . . dubyadubyadubya.com. Aesthetically its tasteful, but like most liberal hogwash less filling than most. I really wish the America-Lite crowd would keep its promises and move to Canada.
The Mary Washington College-Community Symphony Orchestra will present their annual “Pops” concert tonight at 8 p.m. in Dodd Auditorium as scheduled. The program, a tribute to Leroy Anderson titled “Once Upon a Sleight Ride,” is open to the public without charge. That is, if you can dig out!
As most folks know, I am a Civilization III fanatic. In fact, if Sid Meier produces the item (or even randomly comments on it in a fashionable manner), I am on it in seconds. So of course it would interest me when the idea of Civilization comes into it’s own field as a new discipline [...]
If you are interested in the effects that physics has on philosophy (and vice versa), then take a quick look at thebigview.com and see what they have. Lots of interesting stuff for contemporary philosophers. And regarding the new assistant Dean of Admissions at Mary Washington College, this article appeared in the Free Lance-Star: Rita Thompson never [...]
Since I am more than likely to hear about the RAND analysis concerning marijuana, I would like to restate a few of the paragraphs from the press release, namely the first and fifth-from-last: A new study by the RAND Drug Policy Research Center casts doubt on claims that marijuana acts as a “gateway” to the use [...]