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More on Issues, Etc.

3/20/2008 – 6:35 am

The archives are back up (but going slowly; I bet a lot of people are downloading the whole archive, “just in case”).
This is a helpful list of non-Lutherans who were likewise dismayed at the cancellation of Issues Etc.
If you want to help the former host and producer (the latter’s wife has serious medical concerns and [...]

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Issues Etc. is cancelled?

3/19/2008 – 8:27 am

Issues Etc., the best program on Lutheran radio, was apparently cancelled yesterday. I found out about this, not through the usual channels I have about such things, but from James White this morning. Here’s all available information at this point, from YouTube:

Update: there’s a lot of rage about this.

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Lunar tautology

3/14/2008 – 9:50 am

We are told that “Igor Brown of NASA’s Johnson Space Center says cyanobacteria are tough enough to survive and thrive in a lunar environment as long as they have water, air, and sunlight.” You know, I think I could probably get a lot of things to grow in a lunar environment, too, under those [...]

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Geldof on Bush’s legacy in Africa

3/6/2008 – 8:20 am

This is completely fascinating. It may surprise you. Bob Geldof writing about President Bush in Africa. (HT: Justin Taylor.)

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Hard to feel sorry

3/1/2008 – 8:00 am

“HORROR NIGHT AT THE PLAZA,” the headline blares. The horror was that a wealthy woman was trapped in a room with some garbage cans for seven hours, accidentally, while her Fabergé egg was unprotected in her unlocked room down the hall. Was this worth “bloody hands… screaming… breaking down… weeping”? I’d forgive [...]

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Kissing cousins

2/10/2008 – 7:31 pm

This is truly a sign of the times: an MP in Britain is being called an Islamophobe because he had the unmitigated gall to suggest that marrying first cousins is genetically a bad idea.

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Bobby Fischer

1/18/2008 – 9:15 am

Apparently Bobby Fischer, chess champion, former WCG member, anti-Semite, and somebody who thought that 9/11 was “wonderful news,” is dead.

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