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2011-01-20T05:00:33-05:00

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When Christmas was Epiphany

Last updated on: January 20, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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The Lutheran Witness, under the new editorship of my former student Adriane Dorr, has gotten to be a really good magazine. If you are one of the many former subscribers who stopped taking it, renew your subscription. Anyway, a recent issue has an article on Epiphany that was quite an epiphany for me. We had discussed the origins of Christmas. Epiphany, it turns out, was celebrated long before Christmas in the church. Actually, the birth of Christ was one of... Read more

2011-01-19T06:00:22-05:00

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Gestational carrier

Last updated on: January 19, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Movie star Nicole Kidman and her husband, country singer Keith Urban, both of whom hail from Australia, had a baby. They are the child’s biological parents, but their fertilized egg was implanted into another woman, thus farming out the task of bearing the baby and giving birth. I don’t know if some medical condition made this process necessary–if so, I’m not criticizing them, not being sure what I think of that. Or if it is an example on another... Read more

reproductive engineering

2011-01-19T05:45:08-05:00

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Opium economics

Last updated on: January 19, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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From a news story on American frustration with the drug war in Afghanistan: KABUL – After several years of steady progress in curbing opium poppy cultivation and cracking down on drug smugglers, Afghan officials say the anti-drug campaign is flagging as opium prices soar, farmers are lured back to the lucrative crop and Afghanistan’s Western allies focus more narrowly on defeating the Taliban. That combination adds a potentially destabilizing factor to Afghanistan at a time when the United States is... Read more

2011-01-19T05:01:46-05:00

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Smartphone over-dependence

Last updated on: January 19, 2011 at 5:01 am By Gene Veith

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Forget what’s in your wallet — beware your smartphone. It’s becoming one of your most dangerous possessions. CNN business reporter Blake Ellis warns us about how our do-everything smart phones might get us into trouble, especially if they are stolen: If your phone was stolen a few years ago, the thief could make prank calls and read your text messages. Today, that person can destroy your social life — you said what on Facebook?! — and wreak havoc on your... Read more

technology

smartphones

2011-01-18T06:00:36-05:00

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Patrick Henry College in the news

Last updated on: January 18, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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I work at Patrick Henry College, where I am a literature professor and the provost, in charge of both the academic program and student life. Once again, we won the national moot court championship (in which teams of two argue a case against another team before a panel of judges in a pretend-appeals court hearing). Virtually all of these winners, including the amazing Harris brothers, are or have been my students, and I’m very proud of them: Building on an... Read more

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2011-01-18T05:45:16-05:00

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Cyberwar against Iran

Last updated on: January 18, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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The New York Times reports on an Israeli-American collaboration that apparently created a computer worm that may have set back Iran’s attempts to build a nuclear weapon for years. You’ve got to read this story. A sample: Behind Dimona’s barbed wire, the experts say, Israel has spun nuclear centrifuges virtually identical to Iran’s at Natanz, where Iranian scientists are struggling to enrich uranium. They say Dimona tested the effectiveness of the Stuxnet computer worm, a destructive program that appears to... Read more

2011-01-18T05:30:02-05:00

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Madness

Last updated on: January 18, 2011 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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More details come out about the Tucson shooter Jared Loughner’s insanity. I was struck with this paragraph in a description of his delusions (none of which were apparently related to politics, despite what is still being said): Slowly but steadily, his intelligence warped into a distorted, disconnected series of obsessions. He developed an illogical fascination with logic. Math, grammar, logic – the systems civilization has developed to make sense of the world became the means through which he expressed the... Read more

2011-01-18T05:00:48-05:00

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How bad is the flooding in Australia?

Last updated on: January 18, 2011 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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Sharks spotted swimming through flood-hit streets of Australian town. I worry what the flooding will mean for the habitat of Queensland’s salt water crocodiles–affectionally known as “salties”–one of the most dangerous creatures on earth. And we mustn’t forget the even deadlier floods in Brazil, which have, by last count, killed more than 500 people. Read more

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Australia

Queensland floods

2011-01-17T06:00:44-05:00

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The “I have a dream” speech

Last updated on: January 17, 2011 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Happy Martin Luther King Day! Clarence Jones, an aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., recounts the background of the famous “I have a dream” speech, which really is a spectacular piece of oratory. According to his account, Dr. King worked on a policy-type speech, showing it to a number of different individuals and getting their input. But when he actually got up there at the Lincoln Memorial to speak, the great gospel singer Mahalia Jackson was in the crowd and... Read more

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Martin Luther King

2011-01-17T05:45:42-05:00

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Ike’s warnings

Last updated on: January 17, 2011 at 5:45 am By Gene Veith

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Today is the 50th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address. Ike was dismissed at the time as not being that great of a president, but historians now have rehabilitated his reputation and are realizing what a good president he really was. The Washington Post, which also printed a story about the composition of Martin Luther King’s famous speech (see my other blog entry) also printed an account of Ike’s farewell address written by his granddaughter Susan Eisenhower: I’ve always... Read more

History

President Dwight Eisenhower

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