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"This is a video I made by carefully editing about a dozen vintage toy commercials and military propaganda clips to match Alice Cooper's classic song, Generation Landslide"
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"Not eating enough fruit? Forgot to feed the fish again? Need a little help keeping your New Year's resolutions? Tell us what to hassle you about, and we'll nag you via email at semi-unpredictable intervals."
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"Your first step to liturgical understanding"
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"The first Channel 101 series ever to go three consecutive months at #1, House of Cosbys was one of those rare 101 breakouts that went on to satisfy the world."
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"One of the pitfalls of becoming a Catholic educated in the faith is that occasions for outrage rise exponentially."
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"Civilization is built upon the family. It is the primary relationship within which all values are transmitted to future generations. From the family grows the clan and the tribe, and ultimately the city and the state. Although this idea of the beginning
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"The intent of detailing and naming these insidious tactics is so that the reader may AVOID USING THEM, to quickly recognize if someone else is using them, and for fun. There is much humor in the way people (consciously or unconsciously) conversationally
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"Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. Because everyone else is doing it too, LibraryThing connects you with people who read the same things."
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Nerds. Hard core rap. What more can be said?
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"When I called Professor Labov at his linguistics lab at the University of Pennsylvania and proposed I take a phonetic road trip — a journey about listening, much as a blind person or linguist experiences travel — he was enthusiastic. 'When I travel,'
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"Once, long ago, this connection was a no-brainer for people like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Now it is reflexively laughed to scorn as Environmentalist Whackoism by many on the Right. It's what comes of replacing deliberation with sloganeering."
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"I have every respect for those who wish women to be priestesses. I think they are sincere and pious and sensible people. Indeed, in a way they are too sensible…I am tempted to say that the proposed arrangement would make us much more rational 'but not
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"I’ve devised a list of strategies for getting the most from my cell company and I rely on them when my contract is ready to be renewed."
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"There are pro-life arguments—or perhaps that’s the wrong word. Talking points, maybe, or tropes or rhetorical gestures. Anyway, there are things one hears in pro-life presentations that I’ve never understood the force of."
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"There are other ways of dealing with challenge than the sword or the lightsaber. So here we drop the one ring into the Death Star trench!"
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"True Knights is an informal confraternity of Christian men…dedicated to strengthening the family through the teachings of Christ through His Church, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church."
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"[In April 2006] Science published an important comment pointing out that there were serious errors in a climate research article that it published in October 2004…It now turns out that the main results of the paper were simply wrong."
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"Claim: An Arizona sheriff dismissed prisoners' bellyaching about the heat by pointing out that soldiers serving in Iraq cope with similar conditions. Status: True."
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It's worth noting that the article published in Science contended that climate models predicting global warming were wrong. The way the models were tested was the problem, not the models.
In other words, global warming is still real despite wishful thinking on the part of some.
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Posted 21 Jun 2006 at 8:24 pm ¶Re: Surviving Sunday Mass-
I can sympathize with the temptation to be angered by what is seen at Sunday Mass. Highlights from my home parish include instructions to remain standing for the Consecration, holding hands across the aisles for the Our Father, glass Communion vessels, pulling the altar out of the sanctuary, a yearly Christmas homily in which the pastor demonstrates a talking/singing/breakdancing stuffed dog/bear/snowman… all sorts of fun stuff.
But I have little choice where to attend Sunday Mass (atm), so I go, rosary in hand and ears turned off to all attempts at liturgical music. I stay sane by looking to other parishes for Daily Mass and Confession.
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Posted 21 Jun 2006 at 11:17 pm ¶Post a Comment