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  • Super Bowl countdown: Article on Junior Seau and Michael Strahan

    Seau is 39 years old and a Patriot linebacker. Strahan 35, and a Giant defensive end. both have been to the Super Bowl, but neither with a winning team. Awaiting Their Crowning Achievement – washingtonpost.com Strahan eventually convinced himself to extend his career at least one more season, and now he and Seau, who have…

  • The “missing Link” to crocodiles found

    Go here. Cool picture. ‘Missing Link’ to Crocodile Discovered – AOL News This is scientifically important because the specimen literally is the link between more primitive crocodiles that lived in the era of the dinosaurs 80-85 million years ago and modern species," said paleontologist Ismar de Souza Carvalho of Rio de Janeiro Federal University.

  • More human genetics/cell manipulation inanity

    "… suggests it may be possible for lesbian couples to have their own biological children." But it probably won’t work. hit the link for the whole article, from the UK Telegraph Sperm cells created from female embryo – Telegraph However, Dr Robin Lovell-Badge, a stem cell and sex determination expert at the National Institute for…

  • Off the Washington Post/Newsweek weblog: A Jesuit’s Perspective on Abortion

    The author is a physician who is also a Jesuit preparing for ordination. Crucial point about people dissenting from Catholic/Christian teachings, without being able to explain the teaching! On Faith: Guest Voices: A Jesuit’s Perspective on Abortion … A further note on killing the other person: As a practicing physician licensed to care for pregnant…

  • A bad omen: the NY Times agrees with me

    Sort of, as they endorse Senator Clinton forthe Democratic nomination and Senator McCain forthe Republicans. I favor Clinton because I think she’s less likely to damage the country then Obama or Edwards. And McCain is my second choice, but first choice Thompson has dropped out. I found reading the editorials to be nauseating, so I’m…

  • March for Life yesterday

    As we always do (exception: when I’m hospitalized for chemotherapy! Then it’s a threesome.) the four of us were at the March in Washington yesterday. Helped to organize two buses with 89 participants; about half were Jr high school or high school students. Joe took this picture looking back down Constitution Ave, where the Avenue…

  • Activist youths in Washington for March for Life

    Today is the 35th annual March for Life, protesting the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision which by judicial fiat made abortion on demand the law of the land. The Washington Post yesterday had an article on the rising right-to-life youth movement. Movement Gets a Youthful Infusion – washingtonpost.com Ellie Baum, a student at Purdue University…

  • Human cloning has begun

    Horrendous. Mature Human Embryos Created From Adult Skin Cells – washingtonpost.com Creation of the embryos — grown from cells taken from the company’s chief executive and one of its investors — also offered sobering evidence that few, if any, technical barriers may remain to the creation of cloned babies. That reality could prompt renewed controversy…

  • Why I’m smarter then Rush Limbaugh

    Rush Limbaugh makes about 100x what I make (possibly, 1000x more). But I’m smarter then him (or maybe wiser would be a better word), and here’s an example of why. While driving out to NJ I was listening to him today. I enjoy Rush – I think he’s entertaining, and I agree with him, more…

  • Bob Hope explains why he gave up his first career, boxing –

    "I ruined my hands in the ring… The referee kept stepping on them."