Much has been made of President Bush’s recent remarks about the future of America’s space exploration activities. I think having an American walk on Mars is cool and all, and I realize that President Kennedy’s 1962 speech at Rice Stadium may have contributed both to the end of the Cold War and to the tech […]
Posted on January 27th, 2004 by Nils
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Thanks to a link from Sarah, I now know which Christian theologian’s personality (allegedly) most closely resembles my own: Martin Luther. This surprised me initially, but now that I think about it, it does seem to make some sense; the six-question test, for what it’s worth, evaluates personality and not theology.
Posted on January 20th, 2004 by Nils
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Widely-read weblogs are typically chatty. But this attribute could be a liability.
“Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.” (Will Durant)
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.” (Abraham Lincoln)
“When words are many, transgression is not lacking,/but whoever restrains […]
Posted on January 17th, 2004 by Nils
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The December issue of The Atlantic has a good retrospective on Kazan entitled “The Crucible of Hollywood’s Guilt” (sorry, not available online).
This cartoon, featuring the director, appeared in Atlantic Unbound several years ago:
Posted on January 17th, 2004 by Nils
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Araceli is away for a long weekend visiting her newborn niece. I’m in charge of the three amigos, one of whom has pinkeye and a cough. All I can say is, “Mommies—no substituteskys.”
In addition to growing in my admiration for the heroine I married, I’ve had a moment or two of spare time (punctuated by […]
Posted on January 17th, 2004 by Nils
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Eric has been very busy lately. It’s not every day that one gets asked by MTV to arrange some music.
For whom? Oh … just a band backing up some singer by the name of Janet Jackson! What’s the venue? Oh, you know … it’s for the halftime hootenanny of a football game called the Super […]
Posted on January 14th, 2004 by Nils
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