מזל טוב Congratulations to Andrew Compton and his wife on the birth of their daughter, Mia Lynn Compton. She was 21″ long and 8 lbs., 12 oz. at birth on Feb 26, 2011 @ 4:41AM. And rumor has it she’s already spoken her first words: “2 Samuel 7″. Double congratulations!!
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Ferrell Jenkins has an excellent summary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls over at his Travel Blog. The “discoveries” were made beginning 62 years ago this week, and scholars have been fighting ever since. Of course, Qumran had a long history of visitors well before the discovery of the scrolls, but it was [...]
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Malice breeds predictable stupidity. Humans will do and say ridiculous things to protect pride and power. When gossip and anonymous animosity pervade a political power structure, surrendering all desire to succeed within said power structure becomes an enlightened advantage, resulting in candid lucidity and articulated observation against which those who remain within the structure, constrained [...]
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UCLA Chancellor Gene Block and Kirk Kerkorian, founder of The Lincy Foundation, today announced the formation of the Dream Fund at UCLA, a community-based fund devoted to the support of medical research and academic programs at UCLA, as well as the support of a wide range of charitable projects throughout the United States. The Dream [...]
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Rod of Alexandria has begun a meme asking different bloggers to choose the worst Christian song in existence and describe why it is so abhorrent to them. Those who know me know that I have been no fan of much of what passes as “Christian music” for many years, be it what we today call [...]
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one more from i think i believe:
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via i think i believe (via Buzzfeed via alepisaball.com). thought this was clever.
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