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This is from Wednesday – as the guinea pig gets a treat (carrot) from Brigid. Trinity has a different personality from Vindabel, our prior guinea pig. While all guinea pigs are flighty and shy, she is much more adventurous then Vindabel was. If you put Vindabel on the floor, she wouldn’t move. Trinity would take…

This is pretty cool… Yahoo! News caption: This Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters. (NASA,…

Amy Welborn is a Catholic author with a popular weblog. She has linked to an interesting debate on Irish radio about ten days ago, between the evolutionary biologist and virulent atheist Richard Dawkins, and Catholic journalist David Quinn. open book: Debating Dawkins Dawkins is about the most well known propagandist for atheism and against religion…

Pope Benedict has been giving a series of Wednesday afternoon talks over the last few months about each of the 12 Apostles.  ZENIT has a very fascinating discussion of his final talk today, about Judas Iscariot. Here is a link to the actual talk ZENIT News Agency–The World Seen from Rome and here is the…

It’s only a mini-boom, but still pretty cool. Good article. As Europe Grows Grayer, France Devises a Baby Boom – washingtonpost.com When Staub delivered twins last December — her third and fourth children — the nation not only increased their tax deductions and child allowances, the government-owned French train system offered 40 percent discounts off…

The past weekend was very, very busy. See the last post for the Harry Chapin Memorial Run story on Sunday. Joe spent Saturday doing his paintball thing with a dozen other boys in the woods near one of his classmates houses. I spent most of Saturday and into Sunday with Tim.  First at his football…

My town, Croton on Hudson, holds the Harry Chapin Memorial Run against Hunger every year around this time. It’s held in Croton possibly because his record agent lived here.Welcome to Harry Chapin Harry Chapin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia was an entertainer and singer (“Cat’s in the the Cradle,” “Taxi”) from Long Island who was…

Compare this post and article with the prior one just below – about the Navy SEAL who sacrificed himself. Democratic Faces That Could Launch Thousands of Votes – washingtonpost.com The gist of the above article is that the composition and control of the Congress could be determined by which party fields the best-looking candidates. Surreal.…

Navy SEAL credited with saving comrades – baltimoresun.com A Navy SEAL sacrificed his life to save his comrades by throwing himself on top of a grenade Iraqi insurgents tossed into their sniper hideout, fellow members of the elite force said. Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor had been near the only door to the…

Not good. All three of the following were in the Washington Post today. As a bonus, at the end is a predictable NY Times editorial, blaming Bush. Darfur sanctions needed after diplomacy fails: report – washingtonpost.com Diplomacy over Darfur has failed and the international community must now consider sanctions against Sudan to pressure it into…