[from the Editorial in the Blue Equinox]
THE world needs religion.
    Religion must represent Truth, and celebrate it.
    This truth is of two orders: one, concerning Nature external to Man; two, concerning Nature internal to Man. 
    Existing religions, especially Christianity, are based on primitive ignorance of the facts, particularly of ( Read more... )

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Business/2007/08/31/coffee_maker_albert_peet_dies/3490/

in the garden, messin’ with tomatoes.  By the time I was through, I’d picked about twenty-eight pounds:

A pound of Sungold hybrids,

four pounds of Japanese Black Trifeles,

three pounds of Jaune Flammee - beautiful 2” orange globes,

just under two pounds of Celebrity VFFNTA hybrids,

six pounds of White Beauty’s,

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that a dear friend died on July 16th.  We were friends for many years and lovers for a few of those.  We were in and out of touch, as I and my friends usually are.  But we had gotten back in touch a  couple of years ago and were engaged in a sporadic email exchange when she told me her chemo was no longer working.  I felt extremely weird about what ( Read more... )

I'm starting to get pressure from several people to run for President of our Union.  I have no desire for the job, and my wife does not want me to accept it.  Anybody who knows me knows I'm not the Presidential type.  I'd rather be 2nd fiddle, like I am now as V-P.  I do support roles much better than I do front man ( Read more... )

Talk about a quandary ( Read more... )

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I spent Saturday afternoon brewing, and I pretty much tossed the kitchen sink into the mix.  But I'd been wanting to try something a good deal bigger than my usual 4 - 5 % ale. so ... I did ( Read more... )

Dear Moslem Association:
As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest. I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey), burnings of Christian churches, the ( Read more... )

And yet, however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose. To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope ( Read more... )