Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Stuff below the fold

Sri Lanka's shrine to the Virgin Mary survived the civil war....and pilgrims are again visiting with prayers and petitions.

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Those who read or saw the film "The Perfect Storm" might remember a lady captain. That was Linda Greenlaw, who went on to write two non fiction books about her life as a fisherman, both of which I used to own.
She's now publishing her second mystery.
the bad news is that it usually takes a year or two until the paperback version ends up in our used book stores.


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Did Mozart die of strep infection?

Actually, the diagnosis "military fever" i.e. typhus, also fits the bill a lot better, and he could have caught it in one of the inns when he was traveling...whereas Scarlet fever rash is not at the same time as acute Glomerulonephritis that the authors say caused the edema... although the edema might be renal failure from "medicines" or due to acute cardiomyopathy...
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Notre Dame dissing Catholic teaching goes way back, notes the Pertinacious Papist.
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The original "Obama as the Joker" was devised by...
a Palestinian American Kucinech backer who photoshops a lot of famous photos, like this one of Napoleon
The bad news: Flickr removed the original, citing "copyright infringement"...the MPAA as political censor.

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