Posted in speculations on May 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Married Susan Friday in a short and sweet civil ceremony in Shaker Heights, Ohio. After 15 years of being lovingly partnered, it’s okay to ask what changes now? Change happens, yet, what’s wonderful for me is that our fundamental deep friendship evoked the changes, whatever they are and turn out to be, and I couldn’t […]
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I don’t have a harsh judgment to levy against Hillary Clinton in the aftermath of her answering the question about, implicitly, her tenacity in the face of long odds and about party unity at the end of the process. There’s a reason for my being circumspect.
It’s that the incident takes a specific psychological form and […]
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Posted in psychology on May 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Dr. Aubrey Blumsohn has done yeoman work in highlighting the sordid and criminal story of the CIA’s use of psychedelic drugs in experiments done for dark purposes. Whatever the specific purpose was, it was an ill purpose. And, it resonates today because it is mostly unknown to what extent drugs are currently deployed by the […]
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Dr. Brian C. Melton, Assistant Professor of History at Liberty University, writing at the web site Intellectual Conservative, Human Origins and a Side of Fries: Refuting a Popular Neo-Darwinian Position.
[A] A prime example of this appeared in Expelled, when Dawkins expressed a willingness to accept evidence of cellular intelligent design if it came from aliens, […]
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Posted in photos on May 5th, 2008 No Comments »
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March 13 to May 4. Spring has sprung. The apple tree is especially glorious even if the rot has literally mostly hollowed out its trunk. I’m a seasonal tweener, enjoying May and September above all other months, and, with my fair scotsman’s skin, liking least the heat. 55-70 degrees is ideal. […]
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The Heights Observer, like the Lakewood paper, is written by citizens, who use AGS’s web-based program to upload stories and photographs onto a server. Volunteer editors read the content, post stories to the paper’s web site and design newspaper pages, all via the Internet.
The volunteers and low overhead will allow the Heights Observer to keep […]
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