“We don’t claim to know what other ignorant men are sure of.”--Clarence Darrow, lawyer and civil libertarian
Chris and Alyssa went to Philly to visit Matt and Sarah.
The Pens were terrible last night.
Data is available that shows the number of days in Waverly, Ohio, above 90 degrees. In 1895, there were 73 days above 90 degrees. In 1936, there were 82 days above 90 degrees. Since the 1930s, there has been a downward trend in the number of days above 90 degrees. If climatologists hide data from earlier years and started at 1955, they show an increase in the number of above 90-degree days from eight or nine to 30 or 40. Thus, to deceive us into thinking the climate is getting hotter, environmentalists have selected a starting date that fits their agenda.
Is a homeowner more likely to align with capital rather than labor interests? And are pension holders likely to do the same?
Sin-eater: A custom that disappeared. Puckle (Bertram S. Puckle, a British scholar, and author of Funeral Customs, Their Origin and Development) tells of a curious functionary, a sort of male scapegoat called the “sin-eater.” It was believed in some places that by eating a loaf of bread and drinking a bowl of beer over a corpse, and by accepting a six-pence, a man was able to take unto himself the sins of the deceased, whose ghost thereafter would no longer wander.--from The History of American Funeral Directing, by Robert Habenstein and William Lamers
Say it is a given that "hate speech" is an evil thing. Is there in history any example of where a people have been fortunate for allowing any politician to ban speech he did not like?
It was a sad day when politicians discovered arithmetic. Some of them say that Latin American immigration lowers the average education level in the U.S. True, but to what effect? What difference does that "average" make? Did things get better for the American Indians because the better educated Europeans arrived and raised the education average of the Americas?
There is a report that Leonardo DiCaprio and WWF sent large amounts of money to organizations that earned their living by starting fires and then selling pictures of the fires to environmental news outlets.
Casting LOTR
From an article by Gary O'Conner on the origin of parts in LOTR:
Chris and Alyssa went to Philly to visit Matt and Sarah.
The Pens were terrible last night.
Data is available that shows the number of days in Waverly, Ohio, above 90 degrees. In 1895, there were 73 days above 90 degrees. In 1936, there were 82 days above 90 degrees. Since the 1930s, there has been a downward trend in the number of days above 90 degrees. If climatologists hide data from earlier years and started at 1955, they show an increase in the number of above 90-degree days from eight or nine to 30 or 40. Thus, to deceive us into thinking the climate is getting hotter, environmentalists have selected a starting date that fits their agenda.
Is a homeowner more likely to align with capital rather than labor interests? And are pension holders likely to do the same?
Sin-eater: A custom that disappeared. Puckle (Bertram S. Puckle, a British scholar, and author of Funeral Customs, Their Origin and Development) tells of a curious functionary, a sort of male scapegoat called the “sin-eater.” It was believed in some places that by eating a loaf of bread and drinking a bowl of beer over a corpse, and by accepting a six-pence, a man was able to take unto himself the sins of the deceased, whose ghost thereafter would no longer wander.--from The History of American Funeral Directing, by Robert Habenstein and William Lamers
Say it is a given that "hate speech" is an evil thing. Is there in history any example of where a people have been fortunate for allowing any politician to ban speech he did not like?
It was a sad day when politicians discovered arithmetic. Some of them say that Latin American immigration lowers the average education level in the U.S. True, but to what effect? What difference does that "average" make? Did things get better for the American Indians because the better educated Europeans arrived and raised the education average of the Americas?
There is a report that Leonardo DiCaprio and WWF sent large amounts of money to organizations that earned their living by starting fires and then selling pictures of the fires to environmental news outlets.
Sine qua non: a necessary condition without which something is not possible. e.g. An interest in children is a sine qua non of teaching.
The first Thanksgiving was a celebration of abundance after a period of socialism and starvation. The members of the Plymouth colony had arrived in the New World with a plan for collective property ownership. Reflecting the current opinion of the aristocratic class in the 1620s, their charter called for farmland to be worked communally and for the harvests to be shared. You probably will not be surprised to hear that the colonists starved. Men were unwilling to work to feed someone else’s children. Women were unwilling to cook for other women’s husbands. Fields lay largely untilled and unplanted. Famine came as soon as they ate through their provisions. After famine came plague. Half the colony died. Unlike most socialists, they learned from their mistakes, giving each person a parcel of land to tend to for themselves. The colonists threw off the statist intellectual fashions of their day. The results were overwhelmingly beneficial. Men worked hard, even though before they had constantly pleaded illness. Fields were not only tilled and planted but also diligently harvested. Colonists traded with the surrounding Indian nation and learned to plant maize, squash, and pumpkin and to rotate these crops from year to year. The harvest was bountiful, and new colonists immigrated to the thriving settlement.--Bower
Casting LOTR
From an article by Gary O'Conner on the origin of parts in LOTR:
How each actor was chosen is the first of many epic stories surrounding the making of The Lord of the Rings. Ian Holm became Bilbo, in part because Jackson had heard him portray Frodo in the BBC radio adaptation; Christopher Lee was cast as Saruman as a result of reading for Gandalf; Elijah Wood, to prove his claim to play Frodo, produced a video of himself dressed as a hobbit in Hollywood Hills woodland locale. The model-turned-actress Liv Tyler was Arwen, for which her tall, long-limbed grace, flawless skin and dazzling blue eyes were a perfect match. She calls this the result of the decision of Jackson and the writer that “there wasn’t nearly enough female energy” in Tolkien’s books, indeed “the only female energy came from the big Black Spider that kills everybody . . .” So Arwen became the love interest, the only blockbuster sine qua non. Ian, never one to drop the idea, suggested impishly there might be some love interest for Gandalf (with, say, the dwarf Gimli).
This rejection of roles was duplicated with other characters. Daniel Day-Lewis was offered Aragorn but turned it down. Timothy Spall at one stage was due to be Gimli the dwarf; David Bowie wanted to play the elf Lord Elrond, but this never happened. Then Stuart Townsend was relieved of his part after two weeks of shooting as Aragorn—he was considered too young by Jackson—and replaced by Viggo Mortensen. But “they say” McKellen was “lured”—the word Brian Appleyard used—into The Lord of the Rings by the arrival at his home in Limehouse of Jackson with Fran, his wife, who had flown to London to meet and choose the cast.
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