Monthly Archives August 2004

Pope Celebrates With Oratorians

Pope Joins in Celebration of Disciple of St. Philip Neri Marks 400 Years Since Death of Blessed VATICAN CITY, AUG. 30, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II put forward as an "example of holiness to the men of our time" the person of Blessed Giovanni Giovenale Ancina. Woohoo! I beat Quenta Narwenion to posting about something related […]

Oh Brother, More Stuff on Stem Cells

[It's finally here - the diabetes and stem cells primer from Jerry Nora that I promised. For those reading my blog for the first time, I decided I ought to explain who Jerry Nora is. Aside from being a good friend, he's also a MD/PhD student with a knack […]

Electoral College

I'm inclined to agree, at least superficially, with the New York Times in their desire to scrap the electoral college. Most of the problems I have with it could be fixed without eliminating the system, though. Require that all states handle electors the […]

Fickle Kids

Kerry's campaigners, MTV producers, and most ordinary people thought that the MTV generation would be hard-core supporters of the Democratic party, and thus Kerry. We all received a bit of surprise when Kerry's daughters were booed while speaking at the MTV Video Music Awards. Either the […]

Big Black Marker

The Memory Hole has a scary example of document redaction going too far. The blacked-out text in this case was a quote from a Supreme Court decision which denounced the abuse of "domestic security" powers. The Memory Hole is a neat site whose purpose is "to preserve […]