Archaeological News

New look at ancient shards suggests Bible even older than thought

And thought is pretty old.

Coincidentally, I'll Be There in October

Salmon Caught Near Seattle Are Full Of Cocaine And Antidepressants

Our Secular Utopia

Homeless Man Removed From de Blasio Presser on Homelessness

Headline of the Week

Police constable shows judge “how grenade works” inside courtroom, three injured

This is Horrible

How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell

Everything You Know [About Baseball] is Wrong

Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong

The "P" Stands for "Procrastination"

EPA Leaves Dangerously Polluted Superfund Sites Uncleaned For DECADES

Well, to be fair, they've been busy closing down the coal industry and making safe our water supplies, unless it's in Flint, Michigan or Hoosick Falls, New York.

Matthew 10:22 and Mark 13:13 and Luke 6:22

HOLY BIBLE ON LIST OF 'CHALLENGED' BOOKS AT LIBRARIES

Interestingly, I've Worshiped in Three and Worked in a Fourth

Top 10 Haunted Churches And Cathedrals

Everything You Have, They Want

They Want Your IRA

I'm beginning to think that the occasional practice of tarring and feathering government officials was not such a bad idea.

Seriously, Everything You Know is Wrong

Full-fat milk 'may drastically reduce risk of diabetes' - study

Anyone who listens to scientists, especially, but not limited to, those on a government payroll, in these politicized times may be of a custodial intellect.  This is particularly true if one thinks that the government is a good steward of our bodies.

You do notice, don't you, that when low-fat milk started to be pushed upon us, that the rate of diabetes went up?

Tales from the Secular Utopia

California Labor Union That Fought for $15 Minimum Wage Now Wants an Exemption

Archaeological News

A bullet fired by Lawrence of Arabia during one of his most famous acts of guerrilla warfare has been discovered in the Arabian desert by a team of archaeologists, led by the University of Bristol, confirming the accuracy of Lawrence's own account of the attack in his war memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Oh, Look. Anti-Semitism is Back. In the USA. At an Elite University.

Everything old is new again:

Stanford students sometimes seem to think that their intelligence is a bubble protecting them from idiocy. But as we learned again at the ASSU Senate meeting on Tuesday night, anti-Semitism, though stupid, is not the sole provenance of stupid people.Many of today’s college students may feel confident that anti-Semitism died with Hitler. But the Oxford University Labour Club’s co-chair recently resigned to protest raging anti-Semitism on campus, and Stanford is not immune from stupid statements and prejudiced words. For Jews, anti-Semitism is terrifyingly real. And it came to a head at Stanford on Wednesday night.

Given the Destruction of Art and Archaeological Treasures in This Enlightened Century Alone, I'm in Agreement

Give thanks for the imperialist ‘tomb raiders’: Without them, many of the artefacts now demanded back from museums simply wouldn’t have survived

I Wondered About This as Well

Why Hollywood Loves Johnny Cash—and not Merle Haggard

Being unloved by Hollywood is not a bad thing.  It could even be a form of salvation.

"I was a closeted Christian at the Pentagon"

But perhaps even more than that, I feared how coming out as a practicing Christian would define me. I worried that my bosses, peers and subordinates might associate me with American officials who have spoken of U.S. military engagements in the Middle East as “crusades ” or with the Islamic State’s declaration of holy war. I feared that talking about my faith would detract from the logic of my arguments. And, as a relatively young person in a senior position, I needed every scrap of credibility I could claim.

So while I might pray for guidance, or forgiveness, on a particularly challenging day, I rarely spoke of my faith in the office.

How Old Are the Pyramids? Tonight's Tidbit.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than the completion of the Pyramids.

Big J Checking the Windows at the U.N.

A History of the "Peace Symbol"

I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it. 

I wish some of those who still employ the symbol would get it right, though.  Too often, they just offer a free advert for Mercedes-Benz.