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Trying to Get Healthy
My wife and I have been looking over our diet and lifestyle and have realized we have been going in the wrong direction. We both drink a bit too much beer. Besides being expensive, it has put weight on both … Continue reading
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Death and Dying Among My Contemporaries
Can one love someone he has never met? Can one mourn someone he has never met? The answers to both questions are yes. Some years ago my twin brother and I were making some tapes of our singing and decided … Continue reading
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Duffy’s Cut
I don’t usually get emotional about a television program but tonight I saw something that I felt very close to. PBS broadcast a program about the fate of 57 Irish immigrant railroad workers who died in 1832. In 1832 a … Continue reading
Jennie-O’s Turkey Police
Shawnne and I went food shopping today. It was a nice day and tomorrow promised another in an endless series of winter storms, so we decided to combine a birding run along with the shopping. Normally we take the back roads … Continue reading
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The Boston Bombing
I was shocked and saddened by the events yesterday. Most publicized disasters don’t move me much. If I cannot connect to the victims, the event becomes a cipher. For me, earthquakes in the third world might as well not have … Continue reading
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Thoughts about gun control?
After a few months of angry debate on gun control, it is clear that very little is going to change in the US. The gun rights lobby has been efficient in spreading its message. That message is that any effort … Continue reading
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Reading old science books – On the Origin of Species
I’ve been reading Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. This was published in 1859, and like many 19th century books, its style is daunting to modern readers (even contemporary reviewers called it dry). It has long sentences with multiple clauses … Continue reading
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The Pope and conservative ideas
Many religious ideas have little practical effect on people. In the early days of the church there were great controversies about the nature of Jesus. After all he died in a gruesome manner. If he wasn’t successful when he was … Continue reading
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Pope and circumstance
Today CNN and the major tv networks showed complete coverage of the cardinals taking their oaths one by one at the start of the conclave. My wife likes to watch the mid-day news and was perturbed when it was pre-empted … Continue reading
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The Catholic Church in Trouble
I spent my youth as a member of the Catholic Church. I am no longer a believer but I still have a fondness for the residue of Catholicism that is left after all the belief has died out. That is … Continue reading