Month: August 2010

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What I’m hearing

08/20/2010 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on What I’m hearing
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 […]
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No more trees

08/19/2010 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on No more trees
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 […]
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Vision

08/19/2010 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Vision
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 […]
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Movie treatment

08/17/2010 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Movie treatment
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 […]
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Science

08/17/2010 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Science
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.John Dewey
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A life well lived

08/16/2010 Dr Wingnut 1
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 […]