SYDNEY (AFP) - Proposed legislation in Australia would make it a crime for one parent to tell the other that their child had been detained under anti-terror laws, a report says.
If a youth aged between 16 and 18 was detained, one parent would be informed and allowed to visit for two hours daily during the [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2005 by pwyll
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I recently spoke with an old friend, and talk turned to books. My friend had read C. S. Lewis’ works of Christian apologetics, but not his two finest books (IMO), Till We Have Faces, and The Discarded Image.
Till We have Faces is a novel which retells the myth of Cupid and Psyche. Lewis believed [...]
Posted on October 22nd, 2005 by pwyll
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I recently received a link to a Dutch website called DaanSpeak, via Paco Malo. I had never heard of DaanSpeak. It is veritable fountain of anti-American venom. I’ll reply with a joke.
DaanSpeak is concerned about the “coming war with Iran”. Here’s how their analysis begins.
In two recent articles, author Webster Tarpley observes [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2005 by pwyll
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Determinations of the rotation speed of stars in galaxies (galactic rotation curves) based on the assumption that Newtonian gravity is a good approximation have led to the inference that a large amount of dark matter must be present - more than can be accounted for by non-luminous baryonic matter. While there are plenty of attractive [...]
Posted on October 20th, 2005 by pwyll
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As a cop, I bore witness to the multiple lunacies of the “war on drugs.” Lasting far longer than any other of our national conflicts, the drug war has been prosecuted with equal vigor by Republican and Democratic administrations, with one president after another — Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush — delivering sanctimonious [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2005 by pwyll
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Nearly exact self-similar fractal forms occur do in nature, but I’d never seen such a beautiful and perfect example until, some time after moving to Switzerland, I came across a chou Romanesco like the one above in a grocery store. This is so visually stunning an object that on first encounter it’s hard to imagine [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2005 by pwyll
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