Wednesday, September 30, 2015

I Wish I'd Kept My Old Turntable

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Vinyl Now Makes More Money Than Ad-Supported Streaming People will always prefer the tangible.  After all, Christianity is based on incarn...

Europe [Purple] vs. USA [Green/Blue] Hurricane Models

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[Hint: the European model is usually the more accurate as it isn't used to hype a television weather report that exists to sell cars...

His Parents Probably Said He Wasn't in Church Because He Had Sports

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Mounties in Saskatchewan town were called out because a stubborn kid was refusing to leave the coffee shop early Sunday morning Actually, ...

The Expanding Definition of "Sympathy" and "Concern"

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Looks like plain, old condescending hostility to me.  But, what do I know?  I don't live in Portland, Oregon.

A 5 Megabyte Memory Drive in 1956

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This is what one looks like in 2015:
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Gee, Ya Think?

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Time: Women are sexist, too

"Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges"

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Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life. Recent examples mentione...

The Infinitely Fascinating World of Religion

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The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem is a holy pilgrimage spot for Christians because it is regarded as the crucifixion and burial ...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Historically, Weird Things Happen Around the Bishop of Rome, But This Has a Certain Splendor to It

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Congressman swipes Pope Francis’ drinking glass Brady took the glass back to his ­office, where he drank out of it, and held it up for his...

Best Birthday Ever

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Oklahoma man discovers he was shot twice after celebrating birthday

It's Important to Teach Children at an Early Age to Cower Before Irrational Authority

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Girl suspended from school for wearing wrong shade of green
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Sorry, Couldn't Resist

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Free Fall from Outer Space from a First-Person View

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Saturday, September 26, 2015

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Can’t make this up: On FOX in NYC. Anchor hears that popes tied in line to Peter. Response: “And Peter knew Jesus. Right?” @GetReligion —...
Friday, September 25, 2015

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Official Audio)

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Jeff "Skunk" Baxter

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"We thought turntables were for playing records until rappers began to use them as instruments, and we thought airplanes were ...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Um, No

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Get Your Selfie Printed On A Pancake And Eat It This Weekend

The Bishop of Rome Quoted Thomas Merton Earlier Today

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A lot of people don't know who Merton was, so we link to his bio that appeared in our series of Friday features in The Coracle back in...

The Traditional Protestant View of the Papacy

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A Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope, Compiled by the Theologians Assembled at Smalcald in 1537 1] The Roman Pontiff claims for...

This is Said Tongue in Cheek, but a Number of Folks are Expressing the Same Sentiment without Irony

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Anyway, I hope we can all put our disagreements aside and agree that the bits of the speech I liked were important; the rest was awful. —...