Anne Rice apparently quit Christianity today. She claims to still be a christian, but she does not like a whole lot of Christianity. Leaving aside that I agree with a number of her points, I disagree with the larger spirit of what she was saying. Let me start a little earlier than I was initially
We are inDivisible. Every cell coNtains our whole being. Yet cut apArt we die.
Too much to do today, so I'll leave Buechner's memoirs to a later date. Instead I give you my most recent graph.
Beard Graph. This one is for Tyler. With apologies to Demetri Martin
I've mentioned this a few times on Twitter, and I think I'm going to expand a bit here. Fear-mongering is nothing new on the part of the media. We need to be careful though when the New York Times throws a figure like 10,000 Swine Flu deaths since April. 10, 000 seems like a big
I'm not sure if this is an original idea. I'd be surprised if it is. I've just never heard any discussion of it before. My idea is this, instead of yet another fare hike for the TTC, the City of Toronto finds a way to put tolls on the Gardiner and Don Valley Parkway. These
Yesterday it may have seemed like I was picking on a church here in Toronto. I made a comment that I believe is justifiable criticism. Now I would like to say one very positive thing the pastor said, that I think more churches could learn from. His comment was that they were a church that
You see less kids these days in the parks. Whether it is fear of germs or creeps who knows? But if it is the former you could be hurting your kids. From the New York Times: In studies of what is called the hygiene hypothesis, researchers are concluding that organisms like the millions of bacteria,
I just read a fascinating article by David Leonhart on the International Herald Tribune about the slow down of the American Consumer Culture. There were two things that stuck out to me. The first I will quote directly. from the 1950s through the 1980s — Americans spent about 91 percent of their income, on average,
Ok, maybe I'm a little bit worried. I mean black holes are scary. Even if they are itty bitty ones like Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek says. When I first heard there was a possibility that a black hole could be created when the world's most advanced particle accelerator opened for business I