December 2009
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Dec 30th
Eating healthfully can increase your food bill... →
More evidence that overhauling the U.S. health insurance system is only a small step towards making Americans healthier. If, as the study's authors conclude, "[f]resh vegetables and fruits are rapidly becoming luxury goods" (since their prices are most strongly influenced by inflation), then we have a structural nutritional problem built into our food system. This piece is from March...
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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The East wind sighs, the fine rains come: Beyond the pool of water-lilies, the noise of faint thunder. A gold toad gnaws the lock. Open it. Burn the incense. A tiger of jade pulls the rope. Draw from the well and escape. Chia’s daughter peeped through the screen when Han the clerk was young. The goddess of the river left her pillow for the great Prince of Wei. Never let your heart open with...
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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How to make syllabub, a Colonial dessert, from NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday
Dec 27th
Dec 24th
60% of Protestant pastors consider Islam...
It’s important to keep in mind here that “dangerous” is a pretty general term — it could just as easily mean “wrong” as “violent.” http://bit.ly/8vMq5e Posted via web from NBR | Comment »
Dec 23rd
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Toby Keith, “American Ride (official music video),” from American Ride (Show Dog Nashville, 2009)
Dec 22nd
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“Pyrrhus advanced, and encamped in the plain between the cities of Pandosia and...”
– Description of the lead-up to the battle of Heraclea, from Plutarch’s Life of Pyrrhus (75 CE), trans. John Dryden, available at The Internet Classics Archive.
Dec 21st
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“We are having the worst drought in memory in Kenya. The seasons have changed in...”
– Lawrence Muli, a protester from Kenya at the Copenhagen climate talks this week, talking to reporter Johann Hari. Source: Johann Hari, “It’s the protesters who offer the best hope for our planet,” The Independent (Dec. 16, 2009).
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
Dana-Farber researchers find that supporting... →
I guess this isn't all that surprising, but it's interesting that they've been able to come up with some solid documentation. At first I thought they were saying that pastoral care actually helps medical outcomes, but it doesn't. It just means people feel better as they're dying, which, obivously, is also significant.
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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“Referring to Precious as “raw” or “harrowing” sidesteps...”
– Jim Downs, “Are We All Precious?,” The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review (Dec. 13, 2009).
Dec 15th
Twitter feed for the Parliament of World Religions
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Dec 7th
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Dec 4th
"Want to save marriage? Ban divorce," by Candace... →
A good, short opinion piece by Candace Chellew-Hodge (@revtheodyke) on John Marcotte's effort to get a new, Proposition 8-like measure placed on the ballot in California to "protect traditional marriage" by making divorce illegal. After all, she points out, Jesus never mentions homosexuality, but he sure does have a problem with divorce.
Dec 3rd