tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57068042011-04-21T18:12:51.398ZYamaneko's LairThe Third Awakening of the Lair. The time for mourning has ended, let the work begin. Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comBlogger941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1114911543199902042005-05-01T01:15:00.000Z2005-05-01T01:39:03.200ZBeware the Unitarian Jihad! Jon Carroll passed on a communication from a group calling itself Unitarian Jihad in a column that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 8. Okay, he probably wrote the whole thing himself -- here's a paragraph from the articleGreetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1114759850102499602005-04-29T07:09:00.000Z2005-04-29T07:31:18.033ZI had an epiphany a week ago. I'm leaving IT, but had a hard time discussing whether to go into law, public affairs or weather forecasting.On April 21, the Bartlett, IL Fire Protection District hosted National Weather Service spotter training. Most of the people attending worked in area police departments, and there it hit me: people who predict the weather save lives. Lawyers have a mixed recordWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1109335789067836132005-02-25T12:41:00.000Z2005-02-25T12:49:49.070ZThe Joy of Sects: Anglican and Episcopalian Churches in AmericaI thought that there were only seven Episcopal/Anglican Churches in America. Instead, here's a list that includes at least thirty of them.Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1109334840050205032005-02-25T12:30:00.000Z2005-02-25T12:34:00.053ZPope John Paul II back in hospitalThe Pope's back in the hospital, and underwent a tracheotomy to help him breathe. Since he suffers from Parkinson's he will have a harder time recovering than most 84-year-olds. The BBC reports that his appetite is good and he is recovering.Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1109334595781363142005-02-25T11:50:00.000Z2005-02-25T12:29:55.783ZAnglican split worsensPrelates of the Anglican Communion, meeting in Northern Ireland, have asked the American Episcopal Church and the Canadian Church to withdraw their members from the Anglican Consultative Council for three years, until the 2008 Lambeth Conference. According to the BBC, "One observer said: 'The primates have handed the North Americans a pearl-handled revolver."As the FebruaryWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1108544156596764672005-02-16T07:54:00.000Z2005-02-16T08:55:56.603ZMagdalene Laundries: A Study in Faith-Based Oppression From just after the Potato Famine until 1996, several orders of nuns ran "Magdalene Laundries", where "fallen women" and other women deemed likely to "fall" were imprisoned. Thirty thousand women went through these laundries. Six days a week, 52 weeks a year the women would be forced to work in laundries run by the sisters without pay. They Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1108251031013075222005-02-12T23:25:00.000Z2005-02-12T23:30:31.013ZHoward Dean elected DNC chairIn a victory for the Democratic blogosphere, Howard Dean was elected Democratic National Committee chair. To celebrate, many of us have placed donation links to actblue.com, like the one that you see to your left. If you are a Deaniac, it's time to put your money where your mouth (or fingers) are and donate.Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1107945685532011052005-02-09T07:07:00.000Z2005-02-09T10:41:25.533ZWhy the Midwest could use high-speed rail: A Tale of Three Travellers
The Midwest High-Speed Rail Association argues, and nine state Departments of Transportation agree, that the Midwest could support a network of fast trains. Wisconsin is doing environmental-impact studies of a Madison-Milwaukee run. Trains have run at 90 mph in Michigan and Illinois is building up the Chicago-Springfield Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1107761042006929972005-02-07T06:12:00.000Z2005-02-07T07:24:02.006ZSuper Bowl XXXIX Notes
Patriots 24, Eagles 21
During the interminable Super Bowl pre-game show, Fox invited George H.W. Bush (Republicans, #41) and Bill Clinton (Democrats, #42) to talk for a few minutes about tsunami relief. Clinton fans will be pleased to learn that the UN named him the special envoy for tsunami reconstruction, effective March 1. Clinton foes will be pleased to learn that theWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1107627012119494892005-02-05T18:00:00.000Z2005-02-05T18:12:12.033ZOn Human Suffering
A gem from Archbishop Akinola, leader of the conservative faction of African Anglicans, from The Nation, Nairobi (and reprinted here). He was trying to brush aside questions of homosexuality, but the African media kept after him. Apparently the South Africans are not on board.
"But annoyed at the prolonged questioning on this one issue, Archbishop Akinola, who has led the Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1107247654614541062005-02-01T07:46:00.000Z2005-02-01T08:47:34.613ZR I P, Nermal Kinesis, April 24, 1992 - January 31, 2005
Nermal Kinesis was born in late April in the city of Hammond, Indiana. As is so often the case with alley cats, his father is unknown. His mother resided at the house next door to my grandmother. They say that he was part-Siamese, but if so, that part had to be Traditional Siamese since in his prime he weighed 17 pounds and measured Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1107053581367385922005-01-30T02:26:00.000Z2005-01-30T02:53:01.366ZECUSA bishops respond to Windsor conference, sort of
Religion and Ethics Weekly writes about the ECUSA House of Bishops meeting in Salt Lake City January 12-14, which responded to the October 18 Windsor report that called on the American bishops to regret what they did. The bishops decided to regret the consequences and to think about regretting the actions in March. Africa was not satisfied.Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1106946089946014692005-01-28T20:36:00.000Z2005-01-28T21:01:29.946ZYou can never go home
Last week's lake storm dumped 15 inches of snow, making it hard to travel to St. Stephen's Episcopal for church. So, instead I went with Mom to St. Andrew's Catholic, where I had been a parishioner for most of my life. I had been apprehensive -- maybe the excellent music and beautiful interior would lure me from the Godly garage that is St. Stephen's.
That temptation Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1106943741068769722005-01-28T20:14:00.000Z2005-01-28T20:22:21.066ZBlogs against Gonzalez
Just so you know, the Senate will be soon casting a vote whether or not to confirm Alberto Gonzalez as Attorney General. Gonzalez is infamous as the author of the document suggesting that Geneva Convention protocols don't apply if the President says so. So the Lair declares itself against Gonzalez.
Anyway, here is the database of blogs against Gonzalez.
With Gonzalez Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1106844643828720082005-01-27T16:07:00.000Z2005-01-27T16:50:43.826ZGlobal warming report overhyped?
The BBC reports that British researchers
"Temperatures around the world could rise by as much as 11C, according to one of the largest climate prediction projects ever run. This figure is twice the level that previous studies have suggested. The scientists behind the project, called climateprediction.net, say it shows there is no such thing as a safe level Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1106725156678723532005-01-26T07:21:00.000Z2005-01-26T07:39:16.676ZAnger management
I think I might be getting a bit too angry. Last New Year's Eve I purposefully blocked a Hummer from making a left turn into Arby's. Technically, I did nothing wrong, but I did manage to raise the driver's ire to the extent that he tried giving me a good talking-to. At least I didn't call his vehicle an Osama-mobile.
More disturbing was this sick thrill that greeted me thisWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1106287157869697692005-01-21T05:40:00.000Z2005-01-21T05:59:17.870Z¿Cómo se dice filk en español?
Picardía Mexicana was a game show that revolves around Mexican filk (song parodies). Each week three filks are selected, arranged and performed by singers, dancers and actors. The audience selected the winner, who received cash and prizes.
Before each number, ventriloquist Johnny Welch and don Mofles (his dummy) interviewed people in the street about the Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1106202049717231232005-01-20T06:14:00.000Z2005-01-20T06:20:49.716ZNew US National Anthem?
Tune: Gimn Sovetskogo soyuza/Soviet national anthem
Unshakable union of red-state Republicans
Great W has welded forever to stand
Created in Florida by Jeb, Rove and Harris,
Most godly and mighty, American lands!
Sing to the Homeland, home of the righteous,
Bulwark of Christians crusading and strong!
O Party of Dubya! Strength of the nation!
For Oil and Cross, DearestWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1099121144527386902004-10-30T06:04:00.000Z2004-10-30T07:25:44.526ZGOTV, GOTV, GOTV! or... ROAD TRIP!!!
That's what this election is coming down to. Illinois for Kerry Chicago is sending busses to Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio this weekend. The response for people wanting to stay four days in Wisconsin appears to have been so overwhelming that plans to put the volunteers up have been strained.
From Indiana, Kerry work in Michigan probably makes more sense. ThatWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1098126243524181952004-10-18T18:44:00.000Z2004-10-18T19:04:03.526Z
Habemus papa!
Bet you were expecting to hear about the smackdown that the Anglican Communion was going to lay on the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) today. That happened, but in the non-Lambeth Lambeth Commission Report, we find this gem:
110. Furthermore, it has been noted that the Archbishop of Canterbury convenes the Lambeth Conference and the Primates' Meeting, and they are both dependentWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1096263463002774462004-09-27T05:24:00.000Z2004-09-27T05:37:43.003ZPreparing for the smackdown
Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold preached in Spokane, Washington today. From the sermon:
'This is not an easy time in the life of our church, nor for that matter is it an easy time in the life of this nation or the world around us. The other, the stranger, is frequently looked upon with suspicion, if not fear and even hatred. We who proclaim a gospel of Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1095407161366740482004-09-17T07:43:00.000Z2004-09-17T07:46:01.366ZNot exactly in the money
Just found out what the Lair is valued at by the people at Blogshares: B$1,430.87. For comparison's sake, Sgt. Stryker is at $165k and Daily Kos is at $1.12m
Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1095192505463891582004-09-14T19:40:00.000Z2004-09-14T20:08:25.463ZI really should be looking for a job, but...
From the American Horticultural Society
"The draft version of the revised United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Plant Hardiness Zone Map, developed in 2003 by the American Horticultural Society, is no longer available.
The USDA is in the process of creating another version of the hardinessWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1095186204183141432004-09-14T18:04:00.000Z2004-09-14T18:23:24.183ZEl Niño returns
NOAA press release, 9/10/2004
This El Niño is not as strong as the 1997-98 El Niño of recent memory, so it's too early to tell if California will be washed into the sea this winter.
El Niño is marked by abnormal sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. The West Pacific tends to be cooler than normal while the East Pacific tends to be warmer. Here in metro Chicago,Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1095059710170520702004-09-13T06:17:00.000Z2004-09-13T07:15:10.170ZStarted Episcopal formation today...
...and not one word on gay bishops. Instead we talked about God -- everybody agreed that there is one God and I think we agreed that He is not a created Being. There was some disagreement over miracles and angels, with one person recounting her direct experience with an angel and Father disagreeing with another parishioner over the efficacy of divine Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1094876913394531732004-09-11T04:13:00.000Z2004-09-11T04:28:55.713ZEames Commission to Publish October 18
Link to Anglican Communion Network
It appears that the Anglican Communion will impose some sort of sanction on the American Episcopal Church (ECUSA). The September 2 London Times says that the leadership of ECUSA will be suspended, that is, disinvited to Anglican summits, as does the September 3 Daily Telegraph. The Eames Commission has completed its work Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1094582532973258432004-09-07T17:56:00.000Z2004-09-07T18:42:12.973ZDreadful milestone ahead
The US toll in Iraq is rapidly approaching 1,000. Most of them died after "Mission Accomplished".
I supported the war because I trusted my President and his Administration. I was a fool. I was fooled by Colin Powell's support, behavior so abject that to call it "slavish" would be to insult American slaves who resisted, mocked and undermined their masters at every Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1094362012210347422004-09-05T04:33:00.000Z2004-09-05T05:26:52.210Z All Saints in LA leaves Episcopal Church
Day to Day, NPR broadcast
All Saints and two other parishes have decided to leave the diocese of Los Angeles and unite with the Anglican Province of Luwero, Uganda. Friends of the dissident parishes state that the diocese will sue, while the LA Diocese itself says that it is "considering its options".
Both sides of this dispute seem prepared to make Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1094132717205526502004-09-02T13:36:00.000Z2004-09-02T13:45:17.206ZNo 10's silent support for Kerry
It appears that Tony Blair's government is getting impatient with Blair's neutrality in the US election campaign. For good reason, it is usually considered very bad manners for one democratic country to pick sides in another democratic country's election.
But Blair does owe America's center-left a favor. In the runup to the war in Iraq, Blair faced a revolt Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1093943445718122762004-08-31T07:03:00.000Z2004-08-31T09:10:45.720ZOn running a proper schism
Many Episcopalians are awaiting the word of the non-Lambeth Conference taking place in Lambeth over the American Episcopal Church's decision to recognize V. Gene Robinson as bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire even though he is currently in an open homosexual relationship. On the conservative side, some are hoping to be given the reins of the American Episcopalian Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1093680168865391502004-08-28T07:22:00.000Z2004-08-28T08:02:48.866ZNYC protests
On August 27, NYC Indymedia reports that an impressive Critical Mass bike ride took place this evening, comprising 5,000+ riders and extending 45 (really short) blocks. Critical Mass stages monthly bike rides in cities during the evening rush hour. They claim 264 arrests; a lot of them took place as the riders returned to St. Mark's Church. Please note that Indymedia may not be Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1093457232414894502004-08-25T17:54:00.000Z2004-08-25T18:07:12.413ZAbu Gharib and the Alamo
Just why do we remember the Alamo? Texas independence was actually won at the Battle of San Jacinto. But the Alamo is a story of brave Texans who fought to their death and the massacre there rallied Texans to fight.
Of course, the Texans were given no chance to surrender. When Santa Ana sounded the Degüello, that meant that mercy would not be extended nor expected.Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1093327841389580262004-08-24T05:44:00.000Z2004-08-24T06:10:41.390ZGod forbid, we're approaching 1,000 dead Americans in Iraq
When that happens, this site will be dressed in mourning for 72 hours.
Stereotypes crushed at St. Stephen's
The old stereotype about Episcopalians as the Country Club denomination was joined (at least in my mind) by that of a church that has forgotten about God and despises the country, of Sodom and Gomorrah under the steeples.
ThatWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1093082606550546342004-08-21T09:00:00.000Z2004-08-21T10:03:26.550ZBecoming an Episcopalian
Sorry I've left you alone, dear reader, but I've been spending way too much time at Daily Kos reading about the latest Bush blunders and Kerry virtues. I'm also attending a different church, St. Stephen's Parish in Hobart, Indiana.
Through July, I started to feel, during Mass and especially as Communion approached, that I really should not be at a Catholic Church, thatWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1091163142066218052004-07-30T04:44:00.000Z2004-07-30T04:52:22.066ZEntering the shameless spin zone
Or Unfair, Unbalanced and Proud Of It.
With the end of John Kerry's speech, the end of any pretense to fairness by most of us pundits has now ended as well. For us Democrats, John Kerry is all that is Good and Righteous while Bush is the Worst President Ever (tm), compared to whom Nixon, Johnson and Buchanan failed miserably in their striving for infamy. Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1089177372144459712004-07-07T04:28:00.000Z2004-07-07T05:16:12.146Z
Sorry about my recent absence from the Lair. I was too busy teaching my first algebra class and wanted to teach it well enough to be invited to teach a second.
Teaching algebra to business-college students was a true learning experience. Some of the lessons drawn:
A high-school diploma is no guarantee that students know the multiplication tables. It is also no guarantee that students Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1085464684841069192004-05-25T05:25:00.000Z2004-05-25T05:58:04.840ZState Department scores
President Bush's speech at the U.S. Army War College
Bush's comments on Islam: "None of this [terrorism, misogyny, tyranny] is the expression of a religion. It is a totalitarian, political ideology pursued with consuming zeal and without conscious." Not exatly music to Little Green Footballs' ears.
"These two visions – one of tyranny and murder, the other of Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1085321715692860412004-05-23T13:53:00.000Z2004-05-23T14:15:34.720ZWhy the ICRC remained silent in Abu Gharib
Another surprised person -- from Josh Marshall
The International Committee of the Red Cross is the organization responsible for visiting people detained in international conflicts. As a matter of policy, the reports that the give to the government are confidential, as explained at this May 7 press conference at ICRC headquarters.
Such a policy, inWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1084852249318284202004-05-18T03:30:00.000Z2004-05-18T03:50:49.316Z
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 dropped, retrieved by the Mouse
Michael Eisner, embattled CEO of Disney, decided not to distribute Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" earlier this month. Unfortunately for Eisner, the Cannes Festival screened it today and Bob and Harvey Weinstein decided on May 13 to purchase the film and distribute it themselves
If, as Moore accuses, Eisner nixed the film inWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1084756600693291692004-05-17T01:04:00.000Z2004-05-17T01:16:40.693ZSimpsons on Alcatraz
By way of Dr. Hibbard's inoculations, donkey basketball, Bart, the National Anthem and Flag, cable news, Springfield denounced as unpatriotic (and rechristened as Liberty-ville, where everything is $17.76), Lisa and a SWAT team knocking Homer unconscious in church, the Simpsons are sent to Alcatraz, where fellow prisoner Bill Clinton got hosed and another prisoner got tased.Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1084610715361670332004-05-15T07:58:00.000Z2004-05-15T08:45:15.360ZLead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
Archbishop Pilarczyk Interview
According to Archbishop Pilarczyk, some people at the Vatican are asking whether a priest who abused children once thirty years ago really should be forced from ministry.
It sounds like people in the Vatican have a rather disordered view of mercy and justice and little knowledge of pedophilia. Pedophilia isWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1084199671025096902004-05-10T14:32:00.000Z2004-05-10T14:34:31.026ZReader's Digest/AAA challenge
I took the challenge to save a gallon of gas. According to my odometer, I drove 72 fewer miles on Patriot/Earth Week (4/19-4/26) which, with my car, translates to a savings of 2.0 - 2.5 gallons. The main loss came from replacing one car commute to Chicago with a train commute.
Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1084171582344644442004-05-10T06:38:00.000Z2004-05-10T06:46:22.343Z
Four Freedoms
Looking through Northwestern University's selection of World War II posters, I found this poster, from a speech dated January 14, 1943. If the Democrats are looking for a platform speech, perhaps they can go back 61 years.
We look forward to securing, through planning and cooperative action, a greater freedom for the American people. Great changes have come in our century Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1084080326093055712004-05-09T05:25:00.000Z2004-05-09T05:28:41.640ZBest Secretary of Defense Ever?!
CNN quoted Dick Cheney Saturday night as saying that Donald Rumsfeld was the best Secretary of Defense ever. This indicates that Cheney is both modest and spectacularly ill-informed.
Modest, because Cheney himself was Secretary of Defense for most of Bush I's term, including Gulf War I. Even his detractors cannot deny that the Gulf War I was a spectacular Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1083390000801097002004-05-01T05:40:00.000Z2004-05-01T05:43:08.200ZTorture scandal in Iraq
Sgt. Stryker has hundreds of choice words for the criminals in uniform who tortured and humiliated Iraqi prisoners.
Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1083387730150326492004-05-01T05:02:00.000Z2004-05-01T05:05:18.046ZDeleted post
I deleted April 30's "Hell in a Handbasket" post. There is a long tradition of offering succor to those who are about to die, whether it is a last meal before the electric chair or some wine drugged with myrrh (Mark 15:23). While I fervently hope that none of the soldiers offered the ministrations posted about yesterday come back dead, this ancient custom of comforting those who Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1083132254075987972004-04-28T06:04:00.000Z2004-04-28T06:12:32.780ZSo much for cat tacos...
Urban legends talk of cats being caught, slaughtered and sold in American restaurants. Usually a Mexican or Chinese restaurant is the innocent victim of such ugly rumors. According to snopes.com, such stories are urban legends seasoned with xenophobia and served up to credulous people.
Aside from issues of morality (and the prospect of prison), there is the small Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1083051582592364402004-04-27T07:39:00.000Z2004-04-27T07:42:46.076ZTabloids: fair, balanced...
The Globe took its potshot at Kerry a few weeks ago and tried to take another shot at Hillary Clinton in its May 3 front page ("Exposed! Hillary Lived With Lesbian"). I say "tried" because there are lots of people who would not mind if she were a lesbian.
But on the top of the May 3 issue: "Saddam's Shocking Deal With Bush: Baghdad's Butcher is Saving His SkinWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1082954539771746722004-04-26T04:42:00.000Z2004-04-26T04:45:22.090ZToday at Mass...
For starters, it appears that Fr. Ameling's prayers for those who showed up on Easter Sunday but not the following week had some effect. The church was packed this morning.
We had a visiting priest, who shall go nameless. Father spoke on the necessity of being Christians for more than one hour a week, and about the anger "when the person in front of you is doing 20 in a 50 Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1082784922871559642004-04-24T05:35:00.000Z2004-04-24T05:38:23.310ZKerry excommunicated?
Not exactly. Technically, some bishops and cardinals hold that he may not receive the Eucharist; this would be a state of mortal sin. The Anointing of the Sick would probably be available to him.
The April 24 New York Times stated that Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria has "said in a news conference in Rome yesterday that a Roman Catholic politician who supports Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1082556645007832582004-04-21T14:10:00.000Z2004-04-21T14:13:43.140ZOn the road to Fubaristan?
Here is a memo criticizing corruption and bad decisions made by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). It is written by a supporter of the occupation (my guess, an Iraqi Kurd) and even has nice things to say about Ahmed Chalabi.
Memo obtained by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1082441268806836162004-04-20T06:07:00.000Z2004-04-20T06:10:45.640ZA tour of La Raza, the newspaper
La Raza is a Spanish-language weekly published in Chicago. It is freely given away all over the city. These stories come from the April 18-24 edition.
Our first stop is at a Way of the Cross procession that went too far.
Too authentic and The participants speak out
The Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) reenactment in Waukegan, Illinois was particularly Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1082175849236761262004-04-17T04:24:00.000Z2004-04-17T04:59:12.090ZBush and Sharon chat
Sharon left the United States smiling since he says that the United States has agreed to let the wall place some West Bank Jewish settlements on Israel's side of the wall. Quite predictably, Arabs are mad and Bush's diplomacy has done little to help.
Left unsaid is that the Oslo accord allowed Israel to annex some settlements in return for ceding land on its side of the Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1081997064454726692004-04-15T02:44:00.000Z2004-04-15T02:47:15.763ZAir America off the air in Chicago, Los Angeles
I turned on Air America at 7:30 CST and the announcers were speaking one of the Chinese dialects on AM 950. According to station identification, the broadcast originated in New York City. Air America was down.
Air America and Arthur Liu, the owner of Multicultural Broadcasting which owns the Chicago and Los Angeles Air America stations, are Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1081746117264248682004-04-12T05:01:00.000Z2004-04-12T05:04:46.090ZOn the road to Fubaristan? Two links, two views
Unrest continues in Iraq 80 days before the handover of power to Iraqis (presumably chosen by the United States or the Coalition). This is also Arba'il, a holiday when Shi'a mourn the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, most by figuratively beating their breasts, others by scourging themselves bloody. Currently the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala are Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1081740753130697202004-04-12T03:32:00.000Z2004-04-12T03:35:21.466ZYet another new link
RealClearPolitics is a conservative site recommended by, of all people, Kos of Daily Kos. I read it, and while it is conservative, it's not Instapundit.
It quotes a Badger State poll which has Bush leading Kerry by six points in Wisconsin at the end of March. That seemed a bit surprising, especially because Wisconsin has a liberal reputation, no death penalty and Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1081626286842488982004-04-10T19:44:00.000Z2004-04-10T19:47:33.686ZNew link
Daily Kos is a liberal blog that has run into some controversy. When the four employees of a private military corporation were murdered, burned and hung in Fallujah, Kos expressed considerably less sympathy for them than he normally does for soldiers slain in combat. Then conservative activists relayed these comments to Congressional candidates advertising on his blog, which Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1081396987158687502004-04-08T04:03:00.000Z2004-04-08T04:10:02.436ZWelcome, Sgt. Stryker readers!
I hope you enjoy your stay in the Lair.
And thank you, Sgt. Stryker, for directing them here!
Prison for two Moroccans detained in Ceuta and Madrid for their links to 11-M
From El Mundo, April 7, 2004
Agencies
ALSO...
* DNA tests confirm that there were seven people in the Leganés apartments
* Amir el Aziz was one of the 'brains' of 11-M, according to 'Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1081239495376230072004-04-06T08:18:00.000Z2004-04-08T19:16:22.576ZReturning from Chicago
After class, I turned north on Lake Shore Drive instead of south. It was 11:00 p.m. and the skyscrapers were in their full glory. Heading back south from Fullerton, the skyscraper lights danced on the Lincoln Park Lagoon. At North Avenue the dark of Lincoln Avenue gave way to the bright lights of the Gold Coast on the right and the midnight lake to the left. Then came Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1080834551935534822004-04-01T15:49:00.000Z2004-04-01T15:51:51.390ZPink Update
Dr. Lux had a letter distributed to students in the Merrillville School System to be given to their parents. There is no ban on wearing pink. Several students standing together were all wearing something pink, were reminded of the rule against wearing clothing that "sets you off", complied and then others were told of it. From their it got conflated into "Pink Banned in Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1080763422238556012004-03-31T20:03:00.000Z2004-03-31T20:06:19.590ZReader's Digest/AAA Save a Gallon Campaign
The Reader's Digest and the AAA have started a campaign to convince Americans to save a gallon of gas on the week of April 19-25.
History buffs will remember that April 19 is Patriot's Day, the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord in 1775 that changed the American Evolution into the American Revolution. And, April 22 is Earth Day.
Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1080757266307753342004-03-31T18:21:00.000Z2004-03-31T18:23:43.436ZAlma mater becomes laughingstock
It's good to see that some things have not changed at my alma mater.
The Merrillville, Indiana school system has a tendency, every few years, to make itself look ridiculous in the news.
In the early 1980s, half a dozen teachers got drunk and went skinny-dipping in the pool.
In the late 1980s, a teacher at one of the elementary schools decided to let his/Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1080459108073509862004-03-28T07:31:00.000Z2004-03-28T07:46:17.450ZThank you, St. Anthony
After over 30 hours of searching for my keys, I prayed to St.
Anthony. Then I retraced the steps I took after bringing the cats in
from their constitutional Friday afternoon, and there they were on a
green tray on a shelf above where their leashes are kept. I had
retraced the same steps before, but did not find the keys.
Something caused my eyes to glance up at Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1080107680330382622004-03-24T05:54:00.000Z2004-03-24T05:57:09.436ZFDA report on antidepressants and increased suicide risk
"Health care providers should carefully monitor patients receiving antidepressants for possible worsening of depression or suicidality, especially at the beginning of therapy or when the dose either increases or decreases. Although FDA has not concluded that these drugs cause worsening depression or suicidality, health care providers Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1080105583111839362004-03-24T05:19:00.000Z2004-03-24T05:24:54.920ZThe Cult of Clara
Clara Barton may be the only Unitarian ever to have formed a cult -- the American Red Cross. I worked for them seven months as a volunteer and another seven months as a full-time worker, until a budget crunch at my chapter ended my full-time job. I volunteered to teach a few more classes after that, but decided that a clean break would be better and that there were other Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079942951645653822004-03-22T08:09:00.000Z2004-03-22T08:11:39.466ZBush and Al-Qaeda
Richard Clarke, a Reagan appointee who served under four Administrations, gave an interview to Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes in which he says that Bush II's Administration repeatedly ignored his attempts to get them to focus on Al Qaeda, preferring instead to focus on Iraq. And, by attacking Iraq, he played right into the hands of Al Qaeda.
60 Minutes interview with Richard Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079863493877583472004-03-21T10:04:00.000Z2004-03-21T10:12:54.450ZWho elected them anyway?
No, not the Republicans. That was the Electoral College at work.
I'm talking about the Democratic National Committee. The Democrats at Daily Kos are upset about the clunky and confusing Flash ad that the DNC has posted and the pundits have been mocking.
From the DNC faq: "The DNC's governing body, however, is made up of approximately 400 elected and appointed Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079655890446195152004-03-19T00:24:00.000Z2004-03-19T00:27:14.733ZSaudi rulers prefer appointment with headsman
Okay, okay. They didn't come out and say it, but they're doing their best to avoid a peaceful change of regime in Saudi Arabia. The BBC reports that Abderrahman al-Lahem was arrested today after expressing surprise on Al-Jazeera that several Saudi intellectuals were arrested for daring to sign a petition for a constitutional monarchy. AbderrahmanWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079551411757742462004-03-17T19:23:00.000Z2004-03-17T19:25:54.936ZMy theory
My theory is that a small number of PP voters decided to vote PSOE because of the attacks. Some of them voted PSOE because they felt that Al-Qaeda would not attack them if they pulled out of Iraq. The problem with that is that France, which offered the strongest opposition to the war in Iraq in the UN, was threatened with blood and death yesterday for its rule on headscarves. TurkeyWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079550847642442642004-03-17T19:14:00.000Z2004-03-17T19:16:30.903ZThree theories...
elmundo.es reports: US Administration right?
US Deputy Subsecretary of State attributes the defeat of the PP to "its poor handling" of the attacks
Becomes the first highly-placed official in the Bush Government to blame the PP itself for its electroal disaster
EP | AFP
WASHINGTON -- The Popular Party of José María Aznar, "unconditional ally of the George W. Bush Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079435201469350672004-03-16T11:06:00.000Z2004-03-16T11:09:03.450ZCNN reports: neoconservatives right?
According to CNN, a message on an internet message board frequented by Al-Qaeda states that Al-Qaeda planned bombings in Spain to convince the Spanish government to pull its troops out of Iraq. And should the bombs not force a pullout, then the attacks would throw the PP out of office and usher in the PSOE.
CNN reports: liberals right?
Another CNN Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079426707676342852004-03-16T08:45:00.000Z2004-03-16T08:47:29.030ZSedna, another Tenth Planet?
The BBC reports that the Hubble telescope has detected an object roughly Pluto's size orbiting the Sun at a distance of about 17 billion kilometers (over 10 billion miles) at the moment. This could make it the fifth tenth planet, after Quaoar, Ixion, Varuna and DW 2004. (Sort of like how the Green and Libertarian Parties are both third parties in the US)
The Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079322980354984232004-03-15T03:56:00.000Z2004-03-15T04:00:33.076ZPSOE wins plurality in Spanish elections
It looks like they will be able to form a governing coalition more readily than the PP, which came in second. The PSOE is the center-left party in Spain while the PP is the center-right party. The PP was expected to win today, but its (probably) false accusations that ETA set of the bomb did not help, neither did some Socialists blaming the alliance Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079229643873315382004-03-14T02:00:00.000Z2004-03-14T02:19:29.796ZFrom elmundo.es, website of El Mundo
Al Qaeda claims responsibility for the attacks in a video found in Madrid
MADRID -- On a video found by police near the Mosque of Madrid, a presumed "military" spokesman of Al-Qaeda in Europe has taken credit, in the name of the terrorist group, for the attacks that took place yesterday. Interior Minister Ángel Acebes has revealed that the tape appearedWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079035558550616562004-03-11T20:05:00.000Z2004-03-11T20:08:15.920ZMadrid Update: 192 dead, 1,421 injured, perhaps not ETA's fault?
Link to El País
...In his first appearance, Acebes did not hesitate to attribute responsibility for the massacre to the ETA. This afternoon, he allowed for the possibility that another terrorist group was behind the attacks after a van with a tape of Quranic verses was discovered in Alcalá de Henares...
Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1079021571298341982004-03-11T16:12:00.000Z2004-03-13T08:26:37.263Z
Terrorist Attack in Spain, 173 dead, 898 injured
From Massacre in Madrid -- El Mundo
MADRID -- SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS ON LOCAL TRAINS: 173 DEAD, 898 INJURED
A bomb went off in Madrid's Atocha Station at 7:39 this morning. Within minutes, nine more exploded in four commuter trains from Alcalá de Henares and Guadalajara that had arrived in Atocha, El Pozo and Santa Eugenia stations, sowing Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1078436459951078362004-03-04T21:40:00.000Z2004-03-04T21:43:09.903ZNone Dare Call It Treason, Part II
Bush had Zarqawi in 2002, let him go
Summarized: In June 2002, Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist linked to Al-Qaida, was setting up ricin labs in the Iraq no-fly zone. The CIA had the information, the Kurds were trying to get rid of him, and the National Security Council decided not to attack. The CIA gave evidence that Zarqawi was planning attacks Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1076734324776111862004-02-14T04:52:00.000Z2004-02-14T04:53:54.890ZSlavery is alive and well in the world
In South Asia, children weave rugs, stitch soccer balls, gather salt and labor unpaid on farms, and are even trapped in brothels. Criaditas in Bolivia and restavecs in Haiti are sold to "rich" families to work as maids in return for food and lodging. Even here in the United States, men and women are smuggled into the country and forced to work 12-hour Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1076512986867035712004-02-11T15:23:00.000Z2004-02-11T15:24:54.763ZMore Mel
BNAT review
The Butt-Numb theater festival is a 24-hour movie marathon. Mel Gibson decided to place his film (The Passion of Jesus Christ) on the program, then came out for a 90-minute question-and-answer session with the attendees. Nordling's review was an uninhibited rave for the film, complete with statements defending Mel Gibson from charges against anti-Semitism.
Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1075811916432011812004-02-03T12:38:00.000Z2004-02-03T12:40:16.093ZNone Dare Call It Treason
This was the title of a book distributed by the John Birch Society shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis. In it, John A. Stormer concocts a vast conspiracy claiming that the Communists controlled the country. It also includes a defense of McCarthy and his methods and arguments against fluoridation.
Perhaps the name applies to Haliburton subsidiary Kellog, Branch Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1075805977128107812004-02-03T10:59:00.000Z2004-02-03T11:01:17.090ZFor shame, CBS, for shame!
Let's see: it's okay to show Janet Jackson's breasts during prime time. It's okay to show ads for "male enhancement" with thinly-veiled references to human copulation while the nation is watching. But it is forbidden to show an ad criticizing the Bush Administration.
Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1075727918002636032004-02-02T13:18:00.000Z2004-02-02T13:20:16.810ZSex and the Super Bowl
Janet Jackson exposed her right breast on national television during the Super Bowl during a duet with Justin Timberlake. While the network says that the exposure was accidental, Matt Drudge says otherwise. I'd have to agree, since most women don't wear big solar sun symbols over their nipples in place of a bra.
During one of the commercials, Mike Ditka shilled for Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1075663379604933382004-02-01T19:22:00.000Z2004-02-01T19:26:11.653ZWhy English is Difficult: Part MMDCLXXIV
Eugene Volokh invited his bloggers to help him find all of the letters in the English language are silent in at least one word. He found 24 of them, though he allowed that "arfvedsonite" (silent f) is not exactly in common use.
Link
By the way, according to Amethyst Galleries, arfvedsonite is a sort of rock. Its chemistry is Na3(Fe, Mg)4FeSi8O22(OHWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1075590814786402142004-01-31T23:13:00.000Z2004-01-31T23:15:12.076ZMel Gibson: Devout Catholic?
It is somewhat disturbing to see Mel Gibson called a "devout Catholic." He definitely has strong religious views and dropping millions on a parish edifice does not indicate a lukewarm faith, so he is devout. The problem is that he does not accept the teaching authority of the Magisterium over the last 40 years. He is not in communion with the Roman Catholic Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1075287760337615482004-01-28T11:02:00.000Z2004-01-28T11:04:14.280ZMel Gibson's Movie: The Passion of Jesus Christ
A surprise: the movie was rated R, not NC-17. Considering that the movie promised a realistic depiction of the violence of a Roman crucifixion...
Of course, the reason Mel Gibson's Passion has more buzz than, say, Russell Crowe's band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts is the ADL's statement last year which expressed concern that the version of the script Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1073025779111637462004-01-02T06:42:00.000Z2004-01-02T06:44:06.716ZSoftware review: Temple of Elemental Evil
The Temple of Elemental Evil is Atari's latest release based on the Dungeon and Dragons role-playing game, which is now on Version 3.5. Like the Baldur's Gates series, Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights, characters hack their way through dungeons, interact with non-player characters, rest up, then repeat and repeat and repeat. Unlike the Bioware Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1072940542630487882004-01-01T07:02:00.000Z2004-01-01T07:03:29.653ZHappy New Year! Finally!
Right now, all I can say is thank God that it's over. It started with my layoff on January 15 and ended with the death of my Uncle Guy on December 31. I just deleted a "My Rotten Year: By The Numbers" post; there will be plenty of time for looking back at the funeral next week.
Oh, by the way, try not to get hurt, sick or old in Northwest Indiana. Spend the extraWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1069660977731726672003-11-24T08:02:00.000Z2003-11-24T08:03:27.216ZFascinating essay coming soon to the Lair?
A friend of mine spent over a half hour yesterday telling me about her thesis for a master's in history, and I hope that I can get permission to share it with you.
EFL and paralegal programs
As a translator who would like to get a paying gig someday, it appears that teaching English as a Foreign Language or undergoing a course of paralegal studies Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1069577819304771562003-11-23T08:56:00.000Z2003-11-23T08:57:27.060ZRequiem for a Plate Mill
The U.S. Steel Plate Mill, which produced the steel plate used in everything from bridges to the Picasso statue in Chicago, was traded to ISG for a pickle mill (which bathes steel coils in a mixture of strong acids) in August. ISG decided to close the plate production mill, and most of the people working there lost their jobs. Most of my old friends lost theirs on Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1066206011351267532003-10-15T08:20:00.000Z2003-10-15T08:20:11.220ZCubs lose again.
I'm not really a Cubs fan, but would like to see them in the World Series (preferably with the Boston Red Sox). About an hour ago, the Cubs lost to the Florida Marlins, who have now won two of the three games in a row that they need to in order to play in the World Series.
You know, I have a black cat like the one said to have cursed the Cubs in 1969, but he's remarkably Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1061955931764312082003-08-27T03:45:00.000Z2003-11-14T05:59:21.326ZHeat Wave in France
Merde in France, and Blogorhée have been comparing the French response to the heatwave to what they, in their dreams, would be an American response. Blogorhée does mention the response of neighboring European countries, which was quite good.
They seem to have forgotten about the great heatwave of 1995 in Chicago, when over 700 people more than normal died over a Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1061584488538858892003-08-22T20:34:00.000Z2003-11-23T09:07:47.700ZTraveller
Traveller d20 is out, and it looks pretty interesting if you're in the mood to digest a thick sourcebook...even if you don't like placing a 3-D universe onto a 2-D hexagonal grid.
Hmm...A hex grid lets you move in 6 directions (000, 060, 120, 180, 240, 300) while a rectilinear 3-D graph also lets you mone in six directions (I'll call them up, down, north, south, east, west.) Let's Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1061443526222475492003-08-21T05:25:00.000Z2003-08-21T05:27:09.670ZThe Obligatory Manifesto
I'll start with my nationalistic belief that the world would, in general, be a better place if run on American principles. It would certainly make for an improvement here in the United States. This is not an exacting standard since half of humanity lives in Communist China, India or the Middle East.
My second belief is that, at heart, America is in a perpetual stateWarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5706804.post-1061439894046279252003-08-21T04:24:00.000Z2003-08-21T04:24:54.050ZWhy Yamaneko?
According to a Japanese folktale (as distorted by my memory), after death a cat's spirit goes to Yamaneko (Wildcat) Mountain. One cat had a cruel mistress, who in turn had a kind maid. After the cat died, the maid went to Yamaneko Mountain, where the gentle cat spirits showed her hospitality and gave her a valuable gold coin, then warned her to leave before nightfall. The maid Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08924586313145740468noreply@blogger.com