My Own Thoughts

Univ of Toronto says: In everyday language, people sometimes say that immoral behaviours “leave a bad taste in your mouth.” But this may be more than a metaphor according to new scientific evidence from the University of Toronto that shows a link between moral disgust and more primitive forms of disgust related to poison and [...]

I was supposed to meet my parents and brother for lunch but got a call from my brother saying my dad had collapsed at PT and was being transported by ambulance to the hospital. He fainted. His bp was 80/40. He lost bladder control. (How embarrassing is that? Very.) He went home about four hours [...]

The Wall Street Journal says that bankruptcy is being looked at for GM and Chrysler in order to purge retiree health care costs. So they are going to get out of keeping their end of the contract, after the retirees kept theirs. How would you like to be old and sick and your health care [...]

A Scottish brewery claims to have produced the first authentic India pale ale (IPA) in almost 200 years by ageing the beer aboard a trawler in the North Sea. BrewDog, a Scottish micro-brewery based in Fraserburgh, has used an original recipe to produce the ale, which was traditionally matured during the 100-day sea journey from [...]

An extract derived from a West African fruit may help overweight people shed pounds and lower their cholesterol, a new study suggests. The extract comes from Irvingia gabonensis, also known as African mango, a fruit commonly eaten in West Africa. Lab research has shown that extracts from the plant’s seed may inhibit body fat production, [...]

Our project is to ensure the publication of writing of high calibre that may be rejected by conservative institutions. That’s what a call for papers for an online journal said. btw, most higher education teachers are liberals.

from Blackfive

I’m heading out to New Orleans in April and Boston in May. I made reservations today. I’ve put it off and put it off and I felt really bad about it, but I didn’t call. Now it’s done I wonder why I put it off so long.

I’m off work today, watching the dog, listening to the rain, and presently cold because my hot flashes dropped off just now. I’ve read on the internet this morning and have seen no good news, except that I did see a wonderful blogger write about her life with a transparency that made me cry: The [...]

New Scientist has the news. A SKELETON exhumed from a grave in Venice is being claimed as the first known example of the “vampires” widely referred to in contemporary documents. Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found the skeleton of a woman with a small brick in her mouth …. At the [...]

What is happening in our nation tells me that democracy is losing. Christianity is losing. Freedom on all fronts is losing. And we voted for it ourselves and I am unable to stop it. Holy Father, Son of an earthly mother, Spirt that lives within us, please save my nation from itself and bring us [...]

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He helps me rest in a safe haven when I am weary. He blesses my soul with refreshment. He restores the broken places of my soul. Even though the way around me seems fraught with danger and peril, I will fear no evil, for my God [...]

Is the age of miracles over? I don’t think so. Neither does an atheist who was on his way to commit suicide when a deer broke his car, he got a flat tire, someone threw a dog out of the car… It is the story of the Hounds of Heaven hastening after a man who [...]

Barna Research did a survey on Americans and their worldviews. For the purposes of the survey, a “biblical worldview” was defined as believing that absolute moral truth exists; the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches; Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic; a person [...]

But I’m not. They really are out to get non-supporters of the Big O.

Right Wing Nation brought it to my attention. Read here.

Mr. Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget blueprint, by his own admission, redefines the role of government in our economy and society. The budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, adding more to the debt than all previous presidents — from George Washington to George W. Bush — combined. WSJ I didn’t like [...]

I proposed a chapter in a book, which was accepted. But the chapter in the book, which I wrote after the proposal was accepted, was rejected. I am sad. I was sure that it would be accepted. Seems like I don’t understand the publishing business. Need to take that publication off my resume. This was [...]

Mirabilis writes about scientists trying to understand an ancient, previously lost Iberian language. This article said: When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year flipped over a heavy chunk of slate and saw writing not used for more than 2,500 years, they were elated. The enigmatic pattern of inscribed symbols curled symmetrically around [...]