November 27, 2006

Three Parents?

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Holy Baptism was celebrated at my church yesterday. Before the service, I checked the bulletin to find out who was being baptized. Here is ...
November 25, 2006

Unqualified Accession

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A recent story from The Living Church began with the following news: On the eve of Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s investiture a...
October 31, 2006

What Does the Diocese of Pittsburgh Really Want?

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The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh holds its annual convention this Friday and Saturday, November 3 and 4. The main business of the conven...
October 25, 2006

What, Me Worry?

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The message the Bush administration wanted to send yesterday was that the Republican Party is not going to lose control of either the House ...
October 7, 2006

Trying Too Hard II

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In a recent post , I commented on pronunciations that appear to be the product of well-meaning ignorance. I though I had found another examp...
September 29, 2006

Eat How?

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I heard a phrase in a television commercial today that one hears often. The phrase is “eat healthy,” presumably meaning eat lots of fruits a...
September 23, 2006

Trying Too Hard

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Have you noticed that some people’s scrupulous pronunciation gets them into trouble? Sometimes this appears to be the effect of wanting to a...
September 14, 2006

Update on New York Meeting

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The bishops meeting in New York this week issued a joint statement Wednesday morning, September 13. The statement, as reported by Episcopa...
September 11, 2006

Bishops Meeting Again

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A small number of Episcopal bishops, including the Presiding Bishop and the Presiding Bishop-elect, are meeting for three days in New York C...
September 8, 2006

Apply Directly to the Whatever

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There has been a good deal of comment on the Web about the bizarre and cheesy TV commercial for the headache remedy HeadOn. Besides having p...
September 6, 2006

Favicon

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I had to perform a hard reset of my Palm V yesterday My choice seemed to be to try a hard reset or to throw away the unit and buy a new one....
August 16, 2005

Another Comma Problem

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Gore Vidal was the last author to set me off by the niggardly use of commas (see “ Commas ”). The latest author to do so is J. K. Rowling, w...
August 3, 2005

John Bolton

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Many Democrats seem—and “seem” may be exactly the right word here—upset over President Bush’s recess appointment of John Bolton as U.N. amba...
July 31, 2005

Finding the Right Noun

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(CNN) -- NASA engineers have determined that Discovery can safely return to Earth and that the space shuttle's thermal tiles don't p...
July 28, 2005

Space Shuttle Design Flaw

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The relief resulting from the successful launch of Space Shuttle Discovery after a 2-1/2 year re-engineering effort following the Columbia d...

E-commerce at eMusic

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With a recent download, I received an invitation to try the music download service eMusic . The incentive to do so was “50 free downloads,” ...
July 7, 2005

From Yellow to Orange

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In response to the bombings in the city of London, today, Homeland Security informed the world on its Web site as follows: “The United Stat...
May 23, 2005

Nuclear Option

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The Senate tonight is moving closer to invoking the “nuclear option” to circumvent the filibuster rule for judicial nominations. I sent the ...
January 4, 2005

Charitable Diversion?

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Yesterday, President Bush announced that predecessors Clinton and Bush would head an effort to raise private funds for tsunami relief in sou...
November 15, 2004

Reflection on the Recent Election

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November 2, 2004, was a sad day for me. When it became obvious the next day that President George W. Bush had been elected, I wrote the foll...