Dr Wingnut

Month: August 2010

  • What I’m hearing

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    In a news story yesterday they were talking about how the rate of giving is much less for the flood victims of Pakistan than it was for the earthquake victims in Haiti.  They asked if it was donor fatigue.But, they didn’t ask the one question that I heard at the lunch table today, “Why should…

  • No more trees

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    I drove up Hamline Avenue north of Highland Parkway yesterday, and the Saint Paul Forest Service has begun the clear cutting of the ash trees to attempt to stop the spread of the emerald ash borer.  The poor street looks so naked — like a new suburb.

  • Vision

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    Our way of life has been influenced by the way technology has developed.  In future, it seems to me, we ought to try to reverse this and so develop our technology that it meets the needs of the sort of life we wish to lead.Prince Philip, Men, Machines and Sacred Cows, 1984

  • From the Land of Sky Blue Waters

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    The facilites rarely look clean, let alone sanitized.

  • Movie treatment

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    It might be funny to explore a treatment where one guy drinks, but it has no effect on him, but it makes a total stranger drunk and all the crazy stuff he would do, but never picks up a drink.

  • Science

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    Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.John Dewey

  • A life well lived

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    My friend Patrick T. Curran passed away last Thursday, 12 August, 2010.  His obituary in the Pioneer Press did little to describe a man who cared for his family, his friends, and his God.  He loved baseball, his home town of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Dairy Queen cones.It was my privilege, for about five years,…