Rowland Croucher
From Nothing to Everything (Stephen Hawking)
Stephen Hawking reckons a complete theory of the cosmos may yet be attainable. IT’S a staggering idea, perhaps akin to the ultimate free lunch. The prospect of receiving not merely something but indeed everything for nothing sounds too good to be true. Although it stands to reason that most objects ¢â‚¬” from teacups to such […]
The Wisdom of Age
Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio . “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more: 1. Life isn’t […]
Liberal Christianity (is emptying churches)
Note from Rowland: I like this guy. He’s brilliant. I don’t agree with him in a lot of places, but I like the integrity of his search for truth. The following is a sad commentary on the wishful thinking of ultra-liberal theologian-pastors who believe their stance will somehow ‘attract more modern/postmodern people to the church’. […]
Nuclear Power (Alexander Downer)
WHEN I visited Finland for Australian EU consultations in 2006, I visited a nuclear power plant at Olikiluoto on the Gulf of Bothnia. There were two 860 megawatt power stations (and a third under construction). To be frank, I didn’t make the visit with any preconceptions about what a nuclear power station would be like. […]
Iran’s Baha’i Minority Suffers Increasing Persecution
Sightings 1/6/2011 – Elise Auerbach Seven leaders of Iran ¢â‚¬â„¢s Baha ¢â‚¬â„¢i community were sentenced to twenty years in prison by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran last August, a sentence that was reduced to ten years in September. They were convicted on serious but baseless charges including ¢â‚¬Å“espionage for Israel, ¢â‚¬ ¢â‚¬Å“insulting religious sanctities ¢â‚¬ and ¢â‚¬Å“propaganda against the […]
Depleted Uranium: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan are no Joke
The horrors of the US Agent Orange defoliation campaign in Vietnam… could ultimately be dwarfed by the horrors caused by the depleted uranium weapons which the US began using in the 1991 Gulf War (300 tons), and which it has used much more extensively–and in more urban, populated areas–in the Iraq War and the now […]
Laos: the deadly unexploded cluster bombs
At the Vienthong primary school in Laos’ Xieng Khouang province, six students take out hand puppets made from clothing scraps and colored felt. Their audience ¢â‚¬” a class of around 15 children ages 3 to 5 ¢â‚¬” sits in a semicircle in a darkened classroom as the young puppeteers begin the show. The puppet theater […]
Irish wit :-)
Father O’Malley rose from his bed one morning. It was a fine spring day in his new Ballina parish. He walked to the window of his bedroom to get a deep breath of the beautiful day outside. He then noticed there was a donkey lying dead in the middle of his front lawn. Not knowing […]
Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda (1988): Pathogenic Religion
1. First, a good summary of the story: Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher’s kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders […]
Islamic mosque near Ground Zero?
Warning to the US: Don’t Play by Islamic Rules DOUGLAS MURRAY January/February 2011 What was your first reaction back in May when you heard of plans to build a mega-mosque near the site of the Twin Towers in New York? Did you assume it was a tasteless joke? Did your jaw drop? Or did you […]
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