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Archive for March, 2016
March 27th, 2016 - 9:01 am § in Religion
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Easter: Why Jesus Died
Resa Aslan on the Death of Jesus The Message That Led to His Conviction[...]
March 27th, 2016 - 8:59 am § in The Ave Scene
David Preston: The Seattle Way.
Mr. Preston’s Neighborhood OK, so on Wednesday, on a bridge a couple miles from my house, a car full of punks rear-ended another guy’s car. The punks then took off, and when the other guy caught up with them at the other end of the bridge (he says he wanted to get their license) the [&he[...]
March 27th, 2016 - 8:36 am § in Misc.
The Perils of Eating While Black
Entrepreneur shocked after pimp accusation in Laval Tim Hortons Mactar Mbaye is shocked after being questioned by police at a Tim Hortons after someone called them to alert suspicious activity because he was speaking to a… GLOBALNEWS.CA|BY PAOLA SAMUEL[...]
March 27th, 2016 - 4:30 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Today is not Easter in Egypt.
Easter Wisdom and Egyptian Hope In Egypt, Easter is celebrated according to the Orthodox calendar. It is a rather strange holiday as it sets off a bit of schizophrenia in the country. Unlike Christmas, which is a national holiday, it seems to many that Easter is a regular day. Except it isn’t. Chr[...]
March 26th, 2016 - 12:18 pm § in Misc.
Men as sex objects
What attracts women when men dance revealed Washington, Mar 25 – A group of evolutionary biologists claim that they have figured out exactly which dance movements catch a woman’s eye. Researchers at Northumbria University and the University of Gottingen wanted to know what women look for[...]
March 26th, 2016 - 12:18 pm § in Misc.
Swearing in Swedish
Kristy Beers Fägersten has written a book about ‘Swearing in the Nordic Countries.’ The chapter on Sweden says that Swedes swear in English. “There seems to be an awareness that there are restrictions in English-language contexts which don’t apply to Swedish speakers when they s[...]
March 26th, 2016 - 11:52 am § in Misc.
Chomsky on Sanders
‘Noam Chomsky would “absolutely” choose Hillary Clinton over the Republican nominee if he lived in a swing state, but her primary challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, “doesn’t have much of a chance,” the MIT professor and intellectual said in a recent interview.’ From a[...]
March 26th, 2016 - 10:11 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: GOP will settle the Cruz/Trump Fight .. with a duel
Returning to its origins, the GOP is going to use a duel to settle the conflict between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. On September 22, 1842, future President Abraham Lincoln, at the time an Illinois state legislator, met to duel with state auditor James Shields, but their seconds intervened and persu[...]