Rowland Croucher
Darwin Awards
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Favourite Darwin Award Story
My favourite Darwin Award story… The 1997 winner was Larry Waters of Los Angeles – one of the few Darwin winners to survive his award-winning accomplishment. Larry’s boyhood dream was to fly. When he graduated from high school, he joined the Air Force in hopes of becoming a pilot. Unfortunately, poor eyesight disqualified him. When […]
Human Rights Day in South Africa
Today is Human Rights Day in South Africa. (21st March 2007) It commemorates the massacre of a group of peaceful protesters outside a police station in Sharpeville, near Vereeniging, on 21 March 1960. The protesters had gone to the police station without the passes that blacks had to carry on them at all times, and […]
Crisis in Indonesia
NEWS FROM THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION CENTER(OCMC) http://www.ocmc.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Crisis in Indonesia – March 19, 2007 The Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (Ecumenical Patriarchate) wishes to issue the following statement, concerning situations in Indonesia. The Orthodox Christians in Indonesia have joined the list of those attacked by Muslim extremists. Father Methodios […]
Islam & Christianity
March 2007 issue Story by Carol Schersten LaHurd Islam & Christianity Understanding begins with acknowledging devotion and differences For many Americans, the only encounter with Islam and Muslims is televised images of violent conflict in the Middle East. For others, it may be the glimpse of a fully covered female shopper in a supermarket. Our […]
The Sex of Cats
The mother and her young son– a toddler– were riding the bus one day. In the middle of their rather quiet ride (back in those days when bus rides tended to be safe and quiet), the toddler yelled (as toddlers will do), “Mommy, is our cat a mommy cat or a daddy cat?” The mother […]
Murphy’s less known rules
Murphy’s less known rules *1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. *2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest. *3. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. *4. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t. *5. Nothing is foolproof […]
US regime worse than Saddam, statue slayer says
Audrey Gillan March 20, 2007 The Guardian. It is nearly four years since Kadhim al-Jubouri led the toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad. HIS hands were bleeding and his eyes filled with tears as, four years ago, he slammed a sledgehammer into the tiled plinth that held a seven-metre bronze statue of Saddam Hussein. […]
The History of Christian Thought
The History of Christian Thought , by Jonathan Hill (Lion Publishing, Oxford, UK). ISBN 0-7459 5093-0. P/b 352pp, £9.99. Whatever the state of play in the secularisation versus desecularisation argument (and there is plenty of evidence for both trends these days), it cannot be denied that religion is a topic of increasing interest in the […]
Living
Life would be much better lived backwards You’d start out dead and get it out of the way. Then, wake up in an old peoples home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy; go collect your pension, then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first […]
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