The name of this blog indicates a place where people seek their bearings, but this is not a site where they can actually find them—everyone is, or should be, his own wind rose.
Previous incarnations of this blog: here and here.
About Me rob
Having had the honor to become the subject of one of Normblog Friday blogger profiles, may I redirect you to my own Normblog profile. A very good way, in my opinion, to get to know the owner of this weblog.
Transhumanism: Now It’s “Machine Rights?”
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Oh brother. Every once in a while I like to check in to see what our
friends the transhumanists are fantasizing about. The latest is
apparently ”machine r...
Romney Wins Wyoming, Guam, and Northern Mariana
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Mitt Romney picked up victories in three contests today, Wyoming, Guam, and
Northern Mariana. The Associated Press reports:
Mitt Romney has won the Repub...
Exclusive: Santorum backers ?all in?
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Conservative leaders pledged to raise a combined $1.78 million after
meeting privately in Texas.
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Jennifer Lahl on International Women’s Day
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Today is International Women’s Day, and the official website asks, “What’s
Your International Women’s Day 2012 Theme?” At National Review Online’s
“The Hom...
Ends of the Green Agenda
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*Costs of Algae Biofuel*
* By: Larry Walker, Jr. *
*Detective Thorn:* *It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people.
They're making our food out of ...
I fatti de Il Fatto
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"Oggetto: Diffida con richiesta di pubblicazione integrale."Gentile redazione del "fatto.it",
In merito all'articolo oggi apparso in home page, a firma di ...
The History of the Hallal Controversy
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Romain Pigenel retraces the history of the hallal controversy. What emerges
from his account is a picture of a candidate who is improvising his
strategy fr...
David Grossman against attack on Iran
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The Israeli novelist tells The Nation magazine why he is opposed to a military strike against Iran - 'saying the likely consequences [are] more daunting even...
UK: Campaign aims to break taboos on organ donation
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UK: Campaign aims to break taboos on organ donation
Via Asian Image:
People from religious groups, including Buddhists, Muslims, Jews and Sikhs,
are be...
Scottish myths 13
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*The fairy lad of Leith*
This legend was published in *Pandaemonium*, or *The Devil's Cloyster* by a
Richard Bovet in 1684. The story was entitled, *"A r...
The Predictable “I’m a Catholic, but…” Whinge
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There seems to be a misunderstanding circulating that government and
religion are somehow supposed to be a “two-way” street. Where has anyone
gleaned that ...
Never to be bought, sold, or traded. . .
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3rd Sunday of Lent (2012)
Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP
St. Dominic Church, NOLA
How many here have been to a flea market? I went to one for the first time
in...
Ci avviciniamo all’incontro
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Ricevo da un visitatore due vive invocazioni della misericordia del Signore
da parte di missionari saveriani di lunga attesa che gioiosamente
avvertivano l...
Malthus and the Contraceptive Mandate
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“The power of population,” wrote the Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus in 1798,
“is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence
for ...
New Book on Early Christian Art
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Some years back I collaborated with the Czech artist Lea Ravotti on the
book Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols. Readers of
that book...
Love in the Age of ObamaCare
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*Dear Diary,*
*I’m a bit nervous about my upcoming pre-natal visit at the women’s health
clinic. I know I shouldn’t be. My chance of having a baby w...
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«Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV, X
By Order of the Assembly of the Province of Pensylvania for the State House in Philada»
1752
«If I had a bell
I'd ring it in the morning
I'd ring it in the evening ...
all over this land,
I'd ring out danger
I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
...
It's a bell of freedom» Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
["If I Had a Hammer"]
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me. (...)"
William Shakespeare
«Julius Caesar»
Act 3, Scene 2
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