Sunday, April 29, 2012

A Personal Note: The First 24 Hours: So Much More, So Much Less

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It's Saturday night. We've been back in RI for two days, but the first 24 hours were both much more and much less than we'd hop...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

It Depends On What You Mean By "Free Will"--And What You Do With It

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[Warning: Another lengthy treatment of an elusive reality. Fair treatment denies brevity, I say. But there is also the matter of how much a...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Who Pays What Taxes: 11 Charts - The Atlantic

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The Atlantic on-line offers an illuminating article and set of charts that set straight the facts about who or what groups pay how much of ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

A West Wing Bible Lesson

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The West Wing character Jed Bartlett is a professing Roman Catholic Christian, as well as President of the United States. Here, a passio...
Monday, April 9, 2012

Easter

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Easter. A day, an experience, of renewal, hope and gratitude. God willing.
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Cosmology: An Expanding, Flat Universe and the Search for Reasons Why

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Time to look over the cutting edge of what's happening in physics. To the surprise of many physicists and onlookers, the most recent g...

Has Europe [and the U.S.] lost its soul?--Rabbi Jonathan Sachs

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I send this essay/speech by Rabbi Sachs along to a range of people with whom I feel it is important to share it--either because it address...
Friday, March 30, 2012

The Affordable Care Act: A Square Peg in a Round Hole

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The Supreme Court is finally reviewing the constitutionality of The Affordable Care Act . Finally. And I too have been reading about it, w...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

When Everything Is For Sale

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From The Atlantic Magazine : Market thinking so permeates our lives that we barely notice it anymore. A leading philosopher sums up the hidd...