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July 12 at lunch is the second of my book club gatherings… We’re reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle over the summer and here we are at the second installment… “The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)” (Neal Stephenson) Technorati Tags: Baroque Cycle, /Neal Stephenson, /book
You’d think he’d know that we have very insufficient data on something as complex as the weather to be making such huge pronouncements like “Global warming exists” even… The Zero Point: Bill Clinton, Weatherman: The other day when Bill Clinton, at a Democratic fundraiser in Florida, used the dread of approaching tropical storm Alberto to … Continue reading So this is what they use to make Rhodes Scholars out of…
In Boulder, the heat (so far) is dry. Dryer than in Cincinnati, at least. Not a lot of places, outside maybe the Congo, are more humid than Ohio in summer. I surprised myself and stayed outside for much of yesterday afternoon, wandering around to various places, including the nearby park by Boulder Creek. The creek … Continue reading It's a dry heat
Found this article (and hence the tidbit) over at Sisu’s place… Perlmutter – Mujahideen Blood Rituals: Beheadings, suicide bombings, and ritual mutilation are not just strategies of war but time-honored warrior traditions that are theologically sanctioned. I want to hear about this “peace” stuff again… Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not … Continue reading "Religion of Peace" my a**!
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