(the real flying saucers are stored in Area 51).
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Why listen to James Carville?
No, instead, President Obama is eating argula with the posh NYCity set.
But this is actually about getting Ms Wintour posted as ambassador to the UK...
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Whistleblowing: even 9 year old kids are doing it
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Voyager is set to leave the galaxy...
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Book Reviews: When is starvation the same as mass murder?
two more books on the history of eastern Europe during the war...related book: see also :Bloodlands
but starvation by neglect isn't the same thing as genocide: If it was. Churchill would be open to charges of warcrimes for the Bengali famine of 1943.
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Tolkien and the war: An interview with JohnGarth
I have his book: It has lots of details to look up and skim and a good reference book, but it is hard to read.
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Heh. The "magisterium of nuns" who are trying to cause a schism in the church just lost another one:
The Catholic Health Association has rejected the "Obama compromise" even though their "leader" said she thought it was okay.
and the bishops aren't stepping down either.
Not mentioned, of course, is that the "compromise" has never been official: The federal register still has the old wording for the regulation.
Related item: Dialogue with the deaf.
this is not about the Catholic sisters: It is about a small group of activists who got hold of their leadership 20 years ago and belong to this conference (their policies caused thousands to leave their orders and discouraged more from entering the orders).
Wonder why the Vatican is worried about this small group?
Here's only the latest example:
This so called "leadership group" plans to have their next keynote speaker a lady who is in "Coast to coast am" territory, ...sorry, ladies, meditating does not "evolve" you to a higher power (this requires the hard science of DNA manipulation)...but meditating (aka self hypnosis) can open you up to delusions of grandeur and folie a deux...
Sigh. Where is Christopher Hitchens when we need him?
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While Madonna is showing us her aging bosom and tushie, Lady Gaga is busy designing a new perfume: and will be on the cover of Vogue later this year.
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David Warren essay on religious art: Buddhas, doves, and angels.
Literalist images: yet in each emotionless gesture, the still, sculptural Buddha is "teaching" - about suffering; about the cause of suffering; about the cessation of suffering; about the eight-fold pathway to freedom. I recall wrestling with the ideas, at an age too young, and with learning too thin to make much sense. But there must have been some tiny insight there, some slight grasp, for I came away with the idea that this was not about the mere avoidance of suffering....
(the angel of the Annunciation) in this piece is to be taken literally. He lifts his finger, pointing up, to something beyond canvas, paper, or board - both literally, and figuratively, to what is beyond all human understanding. This is what art is for: to show direction; to point the way up.
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I was googling last week about using dried dog food for a survival situation: Consensus: Probably okay but it doesn't have a long shelf life because it contains fat, and often it lacks vitamin C (which dogs can produce themselves, but humans need in their food).
But here is another reason to worry: Salmonella contamination
this case was in dry dog food produced by a company in South Carolina.
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How to make Jack Daniels.
Is it an old Welsh herbal remedy?
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DANGEROUS VEGGIES!
Tranlation for Americans: A "swede" here isn't a descendant of the vikings: it refers to a rutabaga...A survey found two-thirds of injuries in the kitchen come from preparing fresh vegetables like squash and turnip that are too difficult to cut.Almost a quarter said pumpkins were the toughest vegetable to skin and chop while a fifth said swedes were the most dangerous.
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