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MND reader Steven DeLuca comments about an article appearing in today’s edition of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Sunday, May 24, 2009, under VOICES…

“A time to rejoice and a time to be heart broken” (click to open in new window)

“Emma Shaw Crane was chosen as the top student out of 6,800 seniors [...]

Recently it was my privilege to hear an extraordinary audio podcast by MND’s own Amfortas, responding to a series of questions by interviewers John Dias and Christian J. The transcript is below. Right click to download the MP3s — lasalle
Part I of this transcript available here.

Audio: (part 1) (part 2)

TRANSCRIPT PART II
Hello,
This is part [...]

Recently it was my privilege to hear an extraordinary audio podcast by  MND’s own Amfortas, responding to a series of questions by interviewers John Dias and Christian J. The transcript is below. Right click to download the MP3s — lasalle
Audio: (part 1) (part 2)

Part II of this transcript available here.
Who Is Amfortas?
Q. Tell us a [...]

In his article, Where Are They? Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing (PDF here), Oxford University’s Nick Bostrom has raised some very troubling questions.
According to Bostrom, one must wonder what to make of the apparent absence of intelligent civilizations in the universe:  the statistical probabilities suggest the universe ought to be [...]

Last week on Fox News, Glenn Beck interviewed PETA spokesman Matt Prescott about a UN Report calling out the meat industry as the #1 cause of Global Warming.
According to Prescott, the report issued by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),  “found that the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the [...]

Alec Baldwin made a promise to cherish his marriage until death.
He broke that promise, and then made another: to protect his daughter from the tumult of his divorce. And then he broke that promise, too.
An alpha male conspicuously privileged by God,  Baldwin would seem to have no need of “father’s rights” or “men’s rights”, or [...]

One day after receiving the endorsement of the Libertarian Party’s leading presidential candidate, a new poll commissioned by the Bob Barr 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee found that seven percent of likely voters said they would vote for the former Georgia congressman if he were a presidential candidate.
The poll conducted by Pulse Opinion Research also showed [...]

One man’s magic is another man’s science.
Religious essayist Rev. Eric Strachan of the New Life Community Church in Ontario, Canada has published a short essay in The Daily Observer called “The Wonders of Intelligent Design.”
Strachan writes: “There’s a difference in the things that God creates, and the stuff that men and women design, a world [...]

Chapter 9: Leadership Through Anarchy

Chapter 9 of Bernard Chapin’s book, Escape From Gangsta Island: A School’s Progressive Decline, is now available as a podcast exclusively on MensNewsDaily.com.
In the last chapter, Chapin outlined the disaster that was and is progressive education. In this chapter, the end of Principal Chin’s highly manic first year is described for [...]

Chapter 4: Social Security Parentis
Chapter 4 of Bernard Chapin’s book, Escape From Gangsta Island: A School’s Progressive Decline, is now available as a podcast exclusively on MensNewsDaily.com.
In the last chapter, Chapin fleshed out for readers the unique cast of characters who embodied the Eastlands Center—who were a part of his life for 6 years. In [...]

Chapter 3: Of Heroes and Jesters (part 2).
Chapter 3 (part 2) of Bernard Chapin’s book, Escape From Gangsta Island: A School’s Progressive Decline, is now available as a podcast exclusively on MensNewsDaily.com.
In chapter 2, Chapin’s boss, Jorge Ichada, the district Supervisor in charge of the Eastlands Center, had just paid him a visit. Their meeting [...]

Chapter 3: Of Heroes and Jesters.
Chapter 3 of Bernard Chapin’s book, Escape From Gangsta Island: A School’s Progressive Decline, is now available as a podcast exclusively on MensNewsDaily.com.
In the last chapter, Chapin’s boss, Jorge Ichada, the district Supervisor in charge of the Eastlands Center, had just paid him a visit. Their meeting was not a [...]

Chapter 2: The Pen Really Is Mightier than the Sword.
Veritas Parit Odium
(Truth Draws Hatred Upon Itself).
To hold a pen is to be at war.
—Voltaire.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
—Dr. Samuel Johnson
Chapter 2 of Bernard Chapin’s book, Escape From Gangsta Island: A School’s Progressive Decline, [...]

In Expelled: The Movie, economist, lawyer, presidential speech-writer, and all-around media personality Ben Stein will stare down the brutes of Establishment Academia with a singularly profound question: can modern cosmology offer any evidence of Intelligent Design in the universe?
The answer to this question can have unanticipated consequences, as Astronomer Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez learned earlier [...]

Keaau, Hawaii – With Hurricane Flossie bearing down on Hawaii, an earthquake measuring a magnitude 5.3 has struck the Big Island.
The US Geological Survey placed the epicenter  some 26 miles South of Hilo, Hawaii.
The temblor occurred at 7:38 PM local time.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service has issued a Hurricane Watch and a Tropical Storm Warning [...]

Amateur scholar and information technologist Slavisa Pesci says he has discovered hidden figures in “The Last Supper,” Leonardo Da Vinci’s 15th-century masterpiece.

Pesci first reversed the image of the famed painting…

By super-imposing the reversed image on the original image, Pesci discovered what appears to be a figure holding a baby (center left). The image also appears [...]

The Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) staged a “naked” protest in White Plains, New York yesterday. The target of the protest was British fashion house, Burberry, and their fur practices.
Two “naked” female PETA members, wearing nothing but bikini bottoms and body paint held billboards with the slogan, “When plaid [...]

Hundreds of legal, highly-skilled workers in the United States sent hundreds of flowers to the Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Emilio Gonzalez as part of a symbolic and peaceful protest over what they said was a “flip-flop” by the State Department and the USCIS on eliminating Green card processing delays.
Dr. [...]

On Friday, anonymous threats were sent to the evolutionary biology labs at the University of Colorado at Boulder by email and workers returned to their labs Monday morning to find threatening messages slipped under their doors. The threats mention a group affiliated with creationism, but police did not release the name of the group as [...]

Mr. Giorgio Napolitano, the President of Italy has completed a three day visit to Ghana.
During his visit, he met President John Kufuor at the Osu Castle. They highlighted the bonds between Ghana and Italy and past cooperation such as the building of the Akosombo Hydroelectric Dam and AGIP’s involvement in Ghana’s petroleum business.
Napolitano also visited [...]

The FBI and Jackson County police have tracked down the people who videotaped a two year old girl, unsecured and unresponsive in the back seat floorboard of a moving van. In the video, it is suggested that the child had been given the drug ecstasy.
In the video which was taken off YouTube, the toddler was [...]

WMAQ-TV NBC 5 Chicago announced yesterday that reporter Amy Jacobson was leaving her job after being videotaped in a bikini with her two sons at the home of Craig Stebic. Jacobson has been covering the story of Stebic’s wife Lisa, who has been missing since June.
Jacobson says that she he took her children on a [...]

Al-Qaeda’s No.2 Ayman al-Zawahiri warned in a 20-minute audio-taped message that the knighthood of Salman Rushdie was defying the Islamic world by granting the honor to the author of The Satanic Verses, which was deemed an insult to Islam.
Al-Zawahri said in the message that a “very precise response” is in preparation to retaliate against this [...]

Yesterday, amid the celebration of the Argentinian Independence Day, snow and sleet surprised many in the greater area of Buenos Aires and other parts of Argentina. It was the first snowfall there since June 22, 1918. The National Weather Service even doubted to announce the predicted snowfall, because it is a phenomenon that occurs only [...]

The European Union’s Council of Ministers has approved the entry of Mediterranean islands Cyprus and Malta into the Eurozone. They will begin to use the euro from January 1, 2008.
European finance ministers (collectively known as Ecofin) set fixed rates of one euro to 0.585274 Cypriot pounds and 0.4293 to the Maltese lira. Slovenia was the [...]

The top two aides in United States presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign have resigned from their posts today.
The resignation of campaign manager Terry Nelson and long-standing chief strategist John Weaver was announced while McCain was on the floor of the Senate debating strategy in Iraq.
Nelson said, “It has been a tremendous honor to serve Senator [...]

At least five people have been killed, and several others injured, after a Cessna 310 crashed into a neighborhood in Sanford, Florida, in the United States. Two people on the plane and three others on the ground were reported to be killed in the crash.
The plane was attempting to make an emergency landing at the [...]

Andrzej Lepper, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, was sacked on Monday over a corruption investigation.
Kaczy?ski was referring to two people arrested by the Central Anti-corruption Bureau on Friday. One of them, Andrzej R., told the Bureau that he was linked with Lepper. [...]

After failed last-minute negotiations, Pakistani troops have moved in to end the nearly one-week standoff at the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad. There have been reports of an initial round of explosions early Tuesday morning (4:00 a.m. local time) followed by sounds of ongoing gunfire. As many as 1,800 clerics and followers had remained [...]