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Rod Dreher

I would be lying if I told you that I wasn’t unfathomably relieved when the word came late today that our house in Dallas had finally and irrevocably been sold to its new owners. We’ve been paying that mortgage for five months now, for a vacant house, and were getting into a real financial bind…

According to John Palattella, writing in The Nation, anti-intellectualism at American newspapers has a lot to do with it. Excerpt: It’s necessary to explain these broad economic trends to understand a crucial and overlooked point–namely, that it is disingenuous for newspaper executives to justify the elimination or reduction of the book beat by claiming that…

I, for one, would like to thank BP and U.S. government regulators for making possible the following image from coastal Louisiana: See all the photos in AP photographer Charlie Riedel’s heart-rending series. And think of Louisiana. UPDATE: You really should be reading Favog, a super-pissed-off Louisiana expat, as he processes the spill.

Science + Religion Today draws attention to a controversy at the World Science Festival, on now in NYC. There’s a panel discussion about the relationship between science and faith. On the panel: astrophysicist Paul Davies, biologist Francisco J. Ayala — both past Templeton Prize winners, I should note — plus Biblical scholar Elaine Pagels and…

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From Econbrowser, these remarks by Steven Kopits, a New York energy consultant: The EIA, the statistics arm of the US Department of Energy, recently released its International Energy Outlook (IEO) for 2010. This is an important document for forecasters, as it represents the EIA’s integrated view of the global energy markets in the years to…

I kid you not. Watch and see for yourself. “He’s gonna be God’s right-hand man now. There’s no reason to be upset. He’s gonna be up there doin’ God’s work. … I’m telling you right now, it’s gonna be OK. Because we have the works of Gary Coleman. To watch forever. And cherish him. Goodbye…

Didn’t I? Didn’t I? Well, I almost called it here. Read all about it in Lives of the Saints. This below, though, now that’s art I can live with, podna!

A computer simulation of where BP’s oil is likely to go if it gets into the loop current:From the Wired.com story: It is impossible to accurately predict precisely what will happen to the oil because it will depend on the ever-changing Loop Current and regional weather patterns. But the model, which is based on typical…

I sometimes wonder why people live in either Los Angeles or San Francisco. Not that they aren’t lovely places (San Francisco much more so than L.A., but I like both), but surely the knowledge that a massive earthquake could strike anyday, and do catastrophic damage, ought to weigh heavily on their minds. Scientists say there’s…
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