Daily Archives: March 23, 2010
The mix is quite jazzy today. The first track is off a new album entitled “The Fillmore Connection” which is really rather good. The Fillmore – The Walter Earl Group Living In The Footsteps – Tony DrakeFall Back – Middlewood … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
From THE BBC: The food portions depicted in paintings of the Last Supper have grown larger – in line with our own super-sizing of meals, say obesity experts. The Cornell University team studied 52 of the most famous paintings of … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
This is refreshingly sensible. From NRC HANDELSBLAD: Abdelaziz Aouragh is a Muslim, lives in Amsterdam, and deals in sex articles. His webshop El Asira, which is for Muslims, will soon be selling Pure Power capsules which “heighten male performance, desire … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
From THE DETROIT NEWS: Michael Balkin observes traditional Jewish practices, but walking to services has been difficult for the past 20 years. A worsening neurological disorder has made walking more than a few steps nearly impossible for the 59-year-old West … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Yes. With the new puritanism taking hold of no longer swinging California, Nepal now seems set to become the promised land for gay people wanting to be treated as normal human beings or, at the least, as if their money … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
From THE LOCAL (Germany): Three years after Knut the polar bear become famous around the world, the Berlin Zoo announced on Monday he was grown-up enough to become its “stud” for breeding. Thomas Dörflein, the zookeeper who raised Knut by … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
From TYPICALLY SPANISH: More than 100 people demonstrated outside the doors of the village church in Rabanal del Camino in León on Sunday, demanding that two local Bendictine monks leave the local San Salvador del Monte Irago Monastery. The protestors … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
Jan’s essay, “Did Consumerism Ruin The Institutional Church?” posted at A CHURCH FOR STARVING ARTISTS, is very good – well worth a read. *** Adrian has posted an essay at PLURALIST SPEAKS with some thoughts about why celibate priests abuse. … [CLICK TO READ MORE]