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  • The Ultimate Christmas Decoration

    Not sure of the ultimate source of this. But here’s a Christmas decoration you wouldn’t want to miss. Posted in humor Tagged: Christmas, humor, Xmas [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 11:50pm EST
    by kishnevi

  • Some musical turkeys

    Classics Today decided to devote American Turkey day to reviewing what it considers to be some turkeys. It’s quite obvious that the reviewers enjoyed themselves. In fact, they even admitted as much. Reviewing music is such a subjective business; few and far-between are the opportunities to cover a disc so horrendous [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:32pm EST
    by kishnevi

  • Prayers requested

    For two co-workers: Jennifer B., who is waiting for the results of a breast biopsy Lilly F., whose husband passed away this week Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: prayer requests [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:24am EST
    by kishnevi

  • World’s biggest floating hotel arrives

    It has room for approximately 6000 passengers (and about a third as many crew), and has enough onboard diversions that you may not even notice you’re at sea: Oasis of the Seas For comparison purposes, the last cruise ship to be greeted with this amount of hoopla, the Queen Mary 2, [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:34pm EST
    by kishnevi

  • MC Escher’s Anglo Saxon Precursor

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    Carl Prydum (at Got Medieval) explains it all, with one of the items that is part of the Staffordshire Hoard. Posted in historiography Tagged: Anglo Saxon art, Staffordshire Hoard [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:08pm EST
    by kishnevi

  • Sports cars where sports cars shouldn’t be

    Tam has a post up about the delights of driving in Indianapolis, which sounds almost as delightful as driving in Miami: One thing that’s always baffled me is the profusion of exotic automobiles you’ll see in downtown Indy of a weekend evening. The streets around the circle are almost crowded with [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:22pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • And there was war in Heaven….

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    Or at least in Canberra. Saturday the 17th of October was an amazing day of history making for our nation of Australia as around 200 Christian prayer warriors from across the country converged on our capital city Canberra to pray and repent on Mount Ainslie, a strategic high place considered to [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 11:50pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • A new killer app

    Out of work TV exec comes up with a new app for the Iphone. “I speak two languages, I’ve won a bunch of Emmys, and I’m pretty much qualified to do a whole bunch of things,” Sherno, 50, says. “But all my contacts in the TV industry are searching for work [...]
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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 9:39pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Cruise of a lifetime

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    A Titanic Memorial Cruise, following her route across the Atlantic with a special memorial service exactly one hundred years after she had her rendevous with destiny. No word yet if DiCaprio, Winslet, or an iceberg will make a special appearance. Posted in travel Tagged: RMS Titanic [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 11:59pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • A matter of compatibility

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    Someone who blogs under the name “whyevolutionistrue” goes to great pains to make sure that Richard Dawkins is absolutely opposed to any kind of religion other than atheism, in case any of us thought otherwise, and at the end writes this: Now that Dawkins has verified this, it would be nice [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 11:55pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Staffordshire Hoard photos

    Via A Corner of Tenth Century Europe http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/ Posted in historiography [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 11:13pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Sliced burglar, anyone?

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    John Hopkins student takes a samurai sword along when investigating suspicious noises in the house he rents with three others. Result is one dead burglar. Of course, authority figures can’t let this go by without preaching the gospel of “just hope the police will actually respond in a timely fashion” Susan Boswell, [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 11:06pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Want to buy a very used castle?

    From Medieval News Scotland is planning a register to make it easier for folks with too much money on their hands to find castles that need restoration. And for those that are actively considering the matter, there is a sort of small Craig’s List of castles here, with a short FAQ on [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 10:51pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Metaquoting

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    Grandmere Mimi gathered herself to do battle at Senator Landrieu’s town hall a few days ago. From the sound of it, she was one of a few liberals awash in a sea of Republicans. None the less, she managed to return alive. And in her post describing the town hall, she [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 11:56pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • And the new Senator is…

    Governor Charlie picked his ex-chief of staff to fill out the term of Sen. Martinez. The sad thing about this man is not the fact that he is probably a Crist clone, but that I can not recall ever hearing of him before. And he’s from my neck of the woods, although [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 9:57pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • E. M. Kennedy

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    Probably it’s fitting that he died during Elul, the runup to the Days of Awe. On the New Year’s Day it is inscribed, and on the Day of Atonement it is sealed, who shall live and who shall die… as the Usenah Tokef says, before going on to list some of [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 9:58pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Beck’s Books

    Mr. Beck has a list of books he thinks are very worthwhile reading Here’s some I’d suggest to supplement his (or, at least in one case, replace) choices. [Links lead, either directly or through the Online Books Page, to online versions where available, or else to the relevant Amazon page] Thucydides: History of [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2009, 12:21am EDT
    by kishnevi

  • My school librarian never looked like this

    Perhaps it is Breda in a former life? Posted in humor, Vintage Ads [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 11:33pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • All in a day at the library

    A representative day for the reference desk at the public library A few gentle reminders for our patrons: The library, specifically the computer lab is not a karaoke bar. The reference desk can give you an amazing variety of information, but even our brilliance has it’s limits. Some examples of information we will [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2009, 12:04am EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Note to Mr. Beck

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    This is fabulous. My god: another Stalin biography. I own more of them than anyone I know. I’m going to try to resist for a while (Gibbon goes slowly), but I won’t for long, I think. Yes, it’s a very worthwhile read, although it’s more a group portrait of the people [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 8:56pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Superman goes to jail

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    Only in New York City could this happen (in Times Square of course) Superman, aka Maksim Katsnelson, 23, of The Bronx, was arrested and charged with assault and resisting arrested, police said, accusing him of punching a female officer in the face while she was trying to subdue him. The incident [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 3:43pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Footnotes in Gibbon

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    Mr. Beck muses on a passage of Gibbon: This, ladies and gentlemen, comes with all emphases original at pp. 682-683 of volume I of Oliphant Smeaton’s edition of “The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire” (Modern Library — Random House). It precipitates this footnote: “Socrates acknowledges that the heresy of [...]
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    Posted: July 05, 2009, 9:03pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Grandiose Gehry

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    James Fallows on an appearance by Mr. Beck’s favorite architect at the Aspen Ideas Festival. For much of the hour he found Gehry impressive. And then: Then the questions from the audience began. The second or third was from a fairly insistent character whose premise was that great “iconic” buildings nonetheless fell short [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 11:10pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Update on Forvik

    This comment was just left on my old post about Forvik. You may remember it–the man who claimed a very small island in the Shetlands was not really part of the UK– It’s signed by a gentleman who calls himself Marc. Stuart Hill never completed the purchase of the Island. He is now [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:52pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Another intelligent American writes to the paper

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    From Grandmere Mimi We all know that Publix carefully makes its hamburgers with the best flour…. Posted in humor Tagged: general idiocy [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 9:04pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Jewish way is the Chicago way

    A Chabad rabbi tells us what he really think. Like the best Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Manis Friedman has won the hearts of many unaffiliated Jews with his charismatic talks about love and God; it was Friedman who helped lead Bob Dylan into a relationship with Chabad. But Friedman, who today travels the country [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 9:43pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Poetry slam

    There is some gnashing of teeth online about a column by the television critic of the London Times, and its defamation of Beowulf: Most people have only read Beowulf because they were forced to under threat of being made to do manual labour for the rest of their lives, after being [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2009, 11:47pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • The end of literacy

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    This, via a commodius vicus of recirculation (ten brownie points to the person who is literate enough to know where that came from) that I first entered at Tam’s, is proof of the death of literacy. It’s not just the fact that the posting, from a news organization, would send [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 8:49pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Only in Jerusalem

    The Israeli government and the Vatican are in somewhat complicated dance regarding the supposed Upper Room. Despite Vatican requests, including in advance of the Pope’s visit to the room tomorrow, Israel remains reluctant to hand it over. Israel’s approach seems more pragmatic than sentimental. The Tourism Minister, Stas Misezhnikov, who heads an [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2009, 10:45pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Cruising to Havana

    A P&O Poster from the days when Cuba was Libre: Posted in art, travel [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 12:15am EDT
    by kishnevi

  • The Gun with Sex Appeal

    Found here. Posted in Uncategorized [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 12:08am EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Adding to the New Professionalism Pile

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    A South Florida cop steals money and drugs from the people he arrests, and the local internal affairs folks need three years to bring him down. And only after he nearly killed a man who was attempting to defend his own business from a robber this past Valentine’s Day. A Miami-Dade [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 9:07pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • WWFW (What Would Fred Wear)?

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    You’ve probably seen the diatribe George Will wrote against “demon denim”. My own theory is that it was published this week because of a scheduling mixup, and was really meant to be published on 1 April. Malkin: But as always, a picture is worth a thousand words. Would Fred Astaire wear this [...]
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    Posted: April 17, 2009, 8:27pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • First there was Conan

    And now there is Barak the Barbarian: Quest for the Treasure of Stimuli #1 From a far away land rises a mighty hero. The son of peasants from two different realms, the one known only as Barack protects the people of Hope Kingdom at all costs. Watch as he takes on [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 10:15pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • On the distance between Heaven and Hell

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    Unlocked Wordhoard has published a student’s calculations of the distance between heaven and hell, based on the first book of Paradise Lost; Lingwe has raised some objections. I have a further objection that applies to the argument of both bloggers. First, the pertinent passage from Milton. He it was whose guile, Stirred [...]
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    Posted: April 08, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • The Facebook Hagaddah

    The Passover Haggadah done Facebook style Posted in humor, Judaism Tagged: Facebook, Passover [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Haunted House, Rabbi style

    A London rabbi decides his house is haunted and asks for halachic help. The RCE’s Response department in Israel, which provides halachic answers to the questions of European rabbis, was approached by Rabbi Levy Yitzhak Raskin of London on behalf of a fellow rabbi who asked not to be identified. “In the [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 12:09am EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Why Not Driving When Drunk Is DUI

    Mr. Beck sees parallels with Stalinism, and Lawrence Taylor is simply outraged over the case of a man convicted of DUI because he was found passed out in a parked car. There are plenty of parallels with Stalinism to be found in our United Socialists of America, but not this [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 5:14pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Colonoscopy notes

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    Notes from a colonoscopy Well, another one done and over (I’ve lost count: I think this is either number 7 or 8), and the guardian of the mysteries has pronounced me clean. Which in a way was disappointing. My Crohn’s has been acting up, but there’s no active signs in the [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Dahlan: Fatah still doesn’t recognize Israel

    This is an example of why I don’t generally trust an Arab farther than half as far as I can throw him. Mohammed Dahlan being interviewed on Palestinian Authority TV. “We acknowledge that the PLO did recognize Israel’s right to exist, but we are not bound by it as a resistance [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 11:12pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • How do they FAIL? Let me count the ways…

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    Alex Knapp ticking off some of the FAIL points of teapartying going-Galtsters: Finally and most ironic of all, none of the folks who attend “tea parties” or who will “go Galt” (one of these days, when they scrounge up the cash) have apparently noticed that we haven’t had anything approaching a [...]
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    Posted: March 23, 2009, 11:03pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • speaking of robbing the rich to give to the poor

    Seems not everyone had nice words to say about Robin Hood But Luxford, an art history lecturer at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews, says a 23-word inscription in the margins of a history book, written in Latin by a medieval monk around 1460, casts the outlaw as a persistent thief. “Around this [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2009, 10:15pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • The circus up in Tallahassee

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    This is my state legislature in action. Rich’s legislation would target only those who derived or helped others derive ‘’sexual gratification” from an animal, specifying that conventional dog-judging contests and animal-husbandry practices are permissible. That last provision tripped up Miami Democratic Sen. Larcenia Bullard. ”People [...] [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 9:53pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Presented for entertainment value

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    Hilzoy snarks on the “Going Galt” fad; Hilzoy’s commenters content themselves with snarking on Atlas Shrugged. Although a few people do come to the defense of AS… Posted in libertarianism, national news Tagged: Atlas Shrugged, going Galt [...]
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    Posted: March 13, 2009, 9:02pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • Interesting confluence

    On the politicization of science. Item 1 here. Item 2 here (via Mr. Beck). Posted in politics Tagged: global warming, politics, science, stem cell research [...]
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    Posted: March 10, 2009, 9:27pm EDT
    by kishnevi

  • And what do Tesla coils sing of?

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    Naturally, the only show on TV I’ve been close to watching regularly in the last few years. My Inner Geek is pleased. H/T Ionarts Posted in music Tagged: Dr Who, music [...]
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    Posted: February 22, 2009, 9:29pm EST
    by kishnevi

  • How Washington Works

    A slightly closer view than you might want, courtesy of MOChassid A few weeks ago we met in Washington to plead our case with senior Treasury people. While they got the joke, they told us it needed a legislative, not regulatory, fix and recommended that we try the stimulus bill. We [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 11:14pm EST
    by kishnevi

  • O SOLO mio

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    I have been tracking, mostly for the amusement value, Mr. Beck’s latest argument with the Sense of Life Objectivists–needless to say, finding myself agreeing with him much more than with them, even if, apparently, my own musical tastes align more with Mr. Perdigo than Mr. Beck. However, I don’t intend [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 9:59pm EST
    by kishnevi

  • Who needs GI Joe….

    …..When you can have Bosch action figures? After all, just how many villians or monsters can compare to Helmeted Bird Monster Torturing Lost Soul With Sister Swine? And a value at only $88 USD! The site seems to have all sorts of different collectibles of a cultural sort if you don’t want [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 10:40pm EST
    by kishnevi

  • FAIL number two

    This is one is not really a subject for humor. Just as a judge revoked his bond, John Ross bolted from a Broward County courtroom and jumped into a nearby river. Hours later, divers pulled his lifeless body from the New River that runs through downtown Fort Lauderdale. Ross was out on [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 9:16pm EST
    by kishnevi
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