Archive January 2010
Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholic priests to "...proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources" in a message titled "The priest and pastoral ministry in a digital world: new media at the service of the Word", prepared for the World Day of Communications. Monsignor Claudio Maria ...
This is the second in what is likely a long ongoing series of posts exhorting readers to evaluate what they read. Here's the first article.According to NaturalNews.com, Thousands of Americans died from H1N1 even after receiving vaccine shots (free registration required for full article):(NaturalNews) The CDC is engaged in ...
From 538:(Illustration: Andrew Gelman, fivethirtyeight.com, "Healthcare Spending and Life Expectancy")Andrew Gelman at fivethirtyeight.com says:A somewhat misleading (in my opinion) presentation of these numbers has been floating around on the web recently, and so I wanted to post this cleaner graph. (The area of the circle for each country is proportional ...
(Photo: Matt DeLong, D.C. Cops Nab Would-Be Extortionist in Farragut Square)While Revenge is not necessarily a topic I'd choose to write about, a number of stories that might be shoe-horned into it have leapt onto my browser in the last few days. I may be dense, but I recognize ...
Cindy McCain Joins in Calling for Marriage EqualityThe organizers of the No H8 campaign recently began publishing this picture of Cindy McCain. They represent the main force of funding to continue the fight against the first amendment to the California State Constitution which was expressly designed to deny rights to ...
From PLoS ONE, an interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research, comes an interesting study, "Democrats And Republicans Can Be Differentiated By Their Faces". The abstract reads:"In Study 1, perceivers were able to accurately distinguish whether U.S. Senate candidates were either Democrats or Republicans ...
National Geographic presents a fantastic infographic showing the relationship between cost of health care (on a per capita basis), the rate of usage, and life expectancy.It's a great graphic.There is little clear relationship between cost, usage, and life expectancy. But there is one fantastically spectacular flyer: the United States.In ...
I've been away, and I have to get back into the saddle with an easy one. In April of 2009, a 48-year-old housewife from Wearside in England was "remanded in custody" for having "excessively noisy sex". In December, she pled guilty.48-year-old Brit Catherine Cartwright ignored a court-ordered ban ...
Haiti suffered "massive and broad" destruction from the devastating earthquakes which may result in large number of casualties, including UN peacekeepers still unaccounted for, the UN mission in Haiti said Wednesday. Fifty to 100 UN staff remained unaccounted for a day after the earthquake, said Vicznezo Pugliese, spokesman for the ...
PSA from the GNB...Did you know that Sneezes travel far and fast. About 100 miles per hour and can transport your germs more than 150 ft. In this time of cold, flu etc. be caring of those around you, your family and friends, and even all those strangers. If you ...
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