That’s it. The end. For real and forever. Now that you know, how does it make you feel, exactly? As published in the journal Science, and summarized below by the BBC: Astronomers used the way that light from distant stars was distorted by a huge galactic cluster known as Abell 1689 to work out the [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2010The poll getting all the attention this morning is on what Americans believe about President Barack Obama’s religious faith. From the AFP: Nearly two years after Barack Obama’s election as US president, a growing number of Americans misidentify his faith as Muslim, according to a new poll released Thursday. Despite Obama’s attendance in church and [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2010
The daily article at “On the Square” over at First Things today is by Yours Truly, and it’s on the new Johnny Cash album, titled Ain’t No Grave. Even by itself, “I Corinthians 15:55” will make most listeners grateful for the album’s existence. With months left to live, and in the shadow of the death [...]
Posted on March 30th, 2010
I’ve written in this space on the great American poet Samuel Menashe, on one or two occasions. In the latest edition of the magazine Poetry, the erudite Ozzie (long transplanted to Britain) Clive James has some reflections on is work, as part of an essay titled “A Deeper Consideration.” All Menashe’s poems give the sense [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2010At a town hall meeting, Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) answers a voter’s concerns about the constitutionality of ObamaCare, and the implications of this kind of power grab by Washington, by wearily asserting that, “The federal government can do most anything in this country.” Just live with it: that seems to be his message. All that [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2010
