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Evan Longoria 25 Aug 2013 | 01:59 am
Via E Hines over at Grim's Hall Well played.
Remarkable Architecture in Barcelona 24 Aug 2013 | 11:14 pm
I've never had much interest in visiting Spain, but the basilica in Barcelona certainly looks interesting. It is the Sagrada Familia, the Church of the Holy Family, and has been under construction fo...
My Name It Is Jack Hall, Chimney Sweep 24 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
Songs go places. In America, the song became Sam Hall, another of those Scots-Irish modifications. Though of course, there had already been many modifications of the song back in England, Ireland, a...
What People Know 24 Aug 2013 | 08:47 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 When writing my little blurbs on both Deliver Us, and Bloodlands, I went to many websites I would not ordinarily enco...
Planetarium and Related 23 Aug 2013 | 05:22 am
For you planetarium and science documentary fans, this is my brother's new project, To Space And Back.
Post 4200 - Bloodlands 23 Aug 2013 | 04:28 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It was all, start to finish, worse than we knew. In the lands between Hitler and Stalin 1933-1945, it was not only w...
Common Core 22 Aug 2013 | 06:42 am
Conservatives usually get irritated at any national, federal intrusion into education, and love to read through the curricula in aha! mode, looking for liberal bias. Common Core seems to be attractin...
Beer Vs. Wine 21 Aug 2013 | 07:12 am
Jonathan sent along this humorous, but absolutely true, article about beer culture versus wine culture. A sample: Is it a wonder that beermaking attained its heights in precisely those countries who...
Chaplain: Contrast 21 Aug 2013 | 06:02 am
I spoke with the hospital chaplain today, and the general questions of Church history and dogma came up. She mentioned that in parish work, people would ask "Why do we do things this way?" and she wa...
Hate Letter On Autism 21 Aug 2013 | 05:53 am
So, an anonymous neighbor in Canada has sent a vile letter to the mother of an autistic boy. In the letter, the author contrasts the behavior of young Max, the autistic boy, with the other normal chi...