No Kidding: Stolen Prosthetic Hand Found In Second Hand Shop
Stolen prosthetic arm discovered in a second hand shopA STOLEN prosthetic arm has been uncovered at a second hand shop sparking a search for its owner.The unusual and distinctive arm is a Nasco...
View ArticleProfessor Kills Entire Family - Dad, Mom and Sister - And Keeps Teaching Job
Murderer, James WolcottExcerpt:"Wolcott admitted to the killings at the time, telling Texas Rangers he “hated” his parents and that he planned the murders in advance. A classmate indicated in a...
View ArticleThe Borowitz Report: Children's Letters To Megyn Kelly
"Jon Stewart Has Fun With Megyn Kelly For 'Keeping" Jesus And Santa Claus White"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-jewish-take-on-jesus-amy-jill-levine.html***Dear Megyn Kelly,For Christmas,...
View ArticleOnly Megyn Kelly Can Get Away With Farting In Public
***Ms. Kelly is also responsible for the most brilliant analysis of Republican ideology - ever!Fox News reporter Megyn Marie Kelly: To Karl Rove on election night, 2012Video Clip:...
View ArticleSelected Moons Of The Solar System, With Earth For Scale
I cannot conceive the physical universe without thinking God is fond of marbles.
View ArticleTeilhard de Chardin S. J. (Wikiquotes)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience."Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French...
View ArticleOn Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
“How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timelessly beautiful meditation on presence over productivity, “is, of course, how we spend our lives.” And nowhere do we fail at the art of presence...
View ArticlePolygamy Making Comeback In Utah
Polygamist Brigham Young: "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of Heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire... The scarcity...
View Article"Smarter Than We Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Lives For The Better"
"Research is Adoration," Teilhard de Chardin S.J.http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/just-thinking-about-science-triggers.htmlLozano Hacking the Brain Parkinson's and...
View Article"Cosmic Apprentice," The Odd Balance Between Science And Philosophy
As if to define what science is and what philosophy is weren’t hard enough, to delineate how the two fit together appears a formidable task, one that has spurred rather intense opinions. But that’s...
View Article"Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Connect"
Originally featured in November — see more here, including Liberman’s fantastic TEDxStLouis talk.“Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind,” Einstein wrote, “life would have seemed to me...
View ArticleSauntering And The Discovery Of Holy Land
Dear Josie,In ancient Greece, the "peripatetic method" was popular: many ancients believed that learning was optimized by conversation that took place while teachers and students were "walking about."...
View ArticleNature Deficit Disorder And Sauntering
Dear Josie,The following New York Times' article by Jesuit-trained Timothy Egan is titled with the phrase Dave brought to my attention several years ago.Egan represents the "Great Divorce" between...
View ArticlePope Francis' Crackdown On "Immaculate" Order Alarms Traditionalists
By AP/Nicole WinfieldDec. 15, 2013(VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis may have been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, but he has come under scathing criticism from a growing number of traditionalist...
View ArticleCarnival And Lent: The Unconscious Genius Of Christianity
Dear Josie,Thanks!I like your friends' idea of establishing a Religious Disorder. Not too much disorder, but "just enough.""All things in moderation, including excess." As you may know, Carnival is a...
View ArticleThe Return of the Welfare Queen
Alan: The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die....
View ArticleCanada: America's Reminder That Civilization Is Possible
Westjet airline employees pulled off a wonderfully orchestrated Christmas surprise for a flight full of Toronto passengers that left many in tearsPax on both houses: Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield's...
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