Payback for GOP Mavericks?
Splendidly slanted reporting (or more appropriately, editorializing being passed as journalism) from the Free Lance-Star:
Howell, who voted against the plan, had promised not to retaliate against Republicans who supported the $1.4 billion in tax increases, and said removing Bryant and Oder from those commissions does not violate that promise.
“Retribution’s such a strong [...]
‘Youngest planet’ flouts theory of formation
More geekness from one who is a geek about space stuff. Namely me.
An infant planet just a million years old is puzzling astrophysicists – it is simply too young to exist, according to the standard model of planet formation.
Evidence for this precocious planet comes in the form of infrared [...]
Pope Warns Americans Are In Danger Of A “Soulless Vision of Life”
It’s about time someone in the Catholic heirarchy had the courage to say what the American bishops cannot see for themselves, and no better person to say it that Pope John Paul II:
The American church “is called to respond to the profound religious [...]
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You need more than that for a letter,
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To Saddam’s Prisioners, Abu Grahib Abuse Seems ‘a Joke’
This is what the anti-Bush peacemongers would have us tolerate as an alternative to the liberation of Iraq:
“They called all the prisoners out to the courtyard for what they called a ‘celebration.’ We all knew what they meant by ‘celebration.’ All the prisoners were [...]
Conciliating Hatred
A great article in the June/July edition of First Things:
A theme of conciliation and inclusion was apparent, for instance, in Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s opinions almost as soon as she took her place on the Court. In Lynch v. Donnelly (1984), the first nativity scene case, O’Connor proposed that the establishment provision of [...]
Radio Paradise
Slowly I am converting the world to the ways of online listener-supported radio. No ads, no gimmicks, just good streaming online music over your MP3 player.
Radio Paradise has to be the momentary favorite. And by momentary, I mean over the past six months or so. Two out of four Kenney brothers [...]
1st District GOP Convention
Spent the majority of the day in Gloucester County at the 1st District GOP Convention. Several elections were contested, but the biggest news of the day was who lost rather than who won – and lost badly too.
Congratulations to Jim Bowden, Dennis Lister, and John Van Hoy for their election to [...]
Neveron sucks
I’m a reasonably big Battletech fan. My brother has been playing an online version of the game for years now at Neveron. So I figured that I would give it a whirl.
What a mistake. There’s more options and buttons on this than a switchboard, the tutorial is subpar, and there’s simply [...]
Nanny’s Obituary
Ann Abla Street, 72, of Fredericksburg died Monday, May 17, 2004, at Greenfield Assisted Living. Mrs. Street was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church.
She is survived by four sons, John A. Street of Churchville, James J. Street of Caroline County, Edmund J. “Mike” Street of Fairfax and Richard A. Street of Spotsylvania County; [...]
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