According to a notice which appeared today on the website of the California Division of Recycling, California is reducing the payments to participants in the recycling program. NOTE!!! This doesn’t affect the CRV for consumers… we still get our nickels and dimes for our bottles and cans. ADDENDUM: What it does mean, however, is that the [...]
Read Full Post...June 22, 2009
Spent Father’s Day at the Blackbird Airpark and the adjacent Joe Davies Heritage Airpark located next to Plant 42 here in Palmdale. This is a picture I took of the SR-71, which is setting next to an A-12. They also have a U-2D and a Stealth Fighter (F-117). I’m not sure you can find all [...]
Read Full Post...June 13, 2009
Over at Cato Unbound, Robert Wright has written an excellent article entitled “Why We Think They Hate Us: Moral Imagination And The Possibility Of Peace“. It’s an excerpt from his new book, The Evolution of God, which I’m in the process of reading now. It’s well worth the time to read. There are also some [...]
Read Full Post...June 9, 2009
There is an excellent page over at The John Templeton Foundation, entitled “Does Evolution Explain Human Nature?” It was created as part of the web-wide commemoration of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin. You’ll find a wide range of scholars there offering their answer in the form of essays to the question and [...]
Read Full Post...June 9, 2009
John Allen has a report on Obama’s pick for ambassador to the Vatican, theologian Miguel Diaz. I haven’t heard of him, but Allen describes him as a fan of Karl Rahner, so I suspect he’s a good egg. Interesting choice… Obama either has an astute grasp of things Catholic or he has some excellent advisors.
Read Full Post...June 7, 2009
I ride my bike every day for at least 5 miles… every other day, sometimes more often, for 10 miles. It’s very flat here in the desert, but the wind makes up for this. I’m guessing that I ride the equivalent of the steep hills of San Francisco some days with winds that get up [...]
Read Full Post...June 4, 2009
Just back from a road trip to San Antonio… about 4 1/2 days on the road and a 3 day visit with relatives. I took my camera but didn’t remember to take it out until on the way back… hup! This shot is of a bird at a rest stop in New Mexico, just inside the [...]
Read Full Post...May 24, 2009
(Photo by NASA) Telling on myself here… but this morning at 8:39 am I was awakened by the double-boom of the re-entry of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The landing occurred about 25 miles from where I live these days… at least until September. Growing up in the Antelope Valley, back in the sixties, sonic booms [...]
Read Full Post...May 20, 2009
Vol. 90 (2009) partial edition is available online. Go here and download PDFs of some pretty good biblical stuff…
Read Full Post...May 20, 2009
Here is a live performance on Letterman of “Chinese Translation”, from his 2006 album Post-War. Folks, it doesn’t get any better than this… Ward is a legend in the making. He has also teamed up with the delightful Zooey Deschanel and released a terrific set of tunes under the name of She & Him… which [...]
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June 30, 2009
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