Archive for March, 2005
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Faiths vary on life-or-death care choices
from the March 29, 2005 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0329/p03s01-ussc.html
The Schiavo case brings questions of theology and human responsibility to the forefront.
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Tzvi Hersh Weinrab and Richard Address are both New York City rabbis who firmly believe Judaism forbids the hastening of death. But the case of Terri […]
Comments Off - Posted in News by dad
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
No Comment Needed 2
Comments Off - Posted in News by dad
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Mega-languages swallow up minnows of the world
Most of the world’s languages are either endangered or will be by the
end of this century, according to a report in the current issue of the
Indiana University Alumni Magazine. Author Daniel Comiskey says
linguists generally agree that it takes at least 100,000 speakers to
sustain a vocabulary, which means that 90 percent of the more than
6,000 languages […]
Comments Off - Posted in News by dad
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
No Comment Needed
Comments Off - Posted in News by dad
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Alaska In The News
Bear Breaks Into Trailer Home in Alaska
Mon Mar 28, 4:11 PM ET
JUNEAU, Alaska - Florentino Acosta has seen plenty of black bears around his neighborhood, but never inside his trailer home — until now. Acosta woke up in the living room as the bear was breaking in. Acosta had fallen asleep while watching television.
His son, […]
Comments Off - Posted in News by dad
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
TV Networks Turn to Religious Themes
Associated Press
March 28, 2005—Now is the time in Hollywood when broadcast networks decide what shows TV audiences will want to watch in the season starting in September. Judging from several comedy and drama pilots now in progress that are already getting close consideration, America’s couches will be turning into pews.
A splashy drama called “Book of […]
Comments Off - Posted in News by dad
Monday, March 28th, 2005
Is No One Accountable?
March 28, 2005
OP-ED COLUMNIST
By BOB HERBERT
The Bush administration is desperately trying to keep the full story from emerging. But there is no longer any doubt that prisoners seized by the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have been killed, tortured, sexually humiliated and otherwise grotesquely abused.
These atrocities have been carried out in an atmosphere […]
Comments Off - Posted in News by dad
Monday, March 28th, 2005
Zen Judaism
If there is no self,
whose arthritis is this?
Be here now.
Be someplace else later.
Is that so complicated?
Drink tea and nourish life.
With the first sip… joy.
With the second… satisfaction.
With the third, peace.
With the third, a danish.
Wherever you go, there you are.
Your luggage is another story.
Accept misfortune as a blessing.
Do not wish for perfect health
or a life without […]
Comments Off - Posted in Faith and Religion "Stuff", Humor, I Hope by dad
Monday, March 28th, 2005
On foot? Ranking the best American cities for walking
Arlington, Va., has been rated the “best walking city” in the nation by
the American Podiatric Medical Association, a group with a strong
interest in what people do with their feet. Walking, the association
says, is one of the best exercises for feet, and in Arlington people
apparently do a lot of it. Surveys indicate that 35 percent of
residents […]