What to Do When the Emperor Has No Clothes by Garrison Keillor These are troubling times for all of us who love this country, as surely we all do, even the satirists. You may poke fun at your mother, but if...
Death of the World's Rivers Disaster warning from UN as investigation reveals half of the planet's 500 biggest rivers are seriously depleted or polluted by Geoffrey Lean The world's great rivers are drying up at an alarming rate, with devastating consequences...
Rewritng the genetic code one GCUA at a time! Sex is such a dirty thing! Maybe if we stone them they will change their biology. On Wednesday 18 January 2006 the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria approved a bill for an...
I've been thinking a lot about thankfulness and gratitude this week. An unhappy heart has come into my life. There is a lack of gratitude in this individual's life. There is little thankfulness. There is no joy. What a seriously...
Where are we this beautiful Sunday?Well, Molly is sick of the DC dems, including Hillary.Pam has found another republican who can't decide who he hates most.Bush's ratings are so low, he's now got to trot out members of his own...
10 minutes into the sermon: "It's hard to talk when you're crying." 15 minutes into the sermon: "God gives kung pao chicken and baseball to people who hate him."...
Troparion of St Gregory Tone 3 Thou didst excellently dispense the Word of God,/ endowed with discretion of speech, O Hierarch Gregory;/ for by thy life thou didst set the virtues before us,/ and dost radiate the brightness of holiness./ O...
This Sunday, Brethren, begins the week of Orthodoxy, or the week of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, because it is today that the Holy Orthodox Church solemnly recalls its victory over the Iconoclast heresy and other heresies and gratefully remembers all...
Troparian Tone 2 We venerate Your most pure image, O Good One, and ask forgiveness of our transgressions, O Christ God. Of Your own will You were pleased to ascend the Cross in the flesh to deliver Your creatures from bondage to the enemy. Therefore...
It was, perhaps, the most beautiful spring morning that could be conceived of by any artist. The trees, with their lush foliage, were gently swaying in a scarcely detectable breeze; so subtle was its movement. The sun was...
Well, midterm elections aren't untill this November, but we've already had an early straw poll in Tennessee and Tennessee Senator Bill Frist outpaced Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Virginia Senator George Allen. It appears he's already trying to line up his...
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