Archive for April, 2007
Lord of the Rings Film Fest
LOTR film fest–arlington cinema/drafthouse
Get your Geek on!
The Mysterious Lives of Bees…
So a couple of months ago I read a story in the New York Times about the alarming and unprecedented decline in the bee population in the United States. Scientists were worried, no pathogen had been found, no cause could be determined, and yet millions of bees had left the planet. The Independent [...]
Reconstruction: Let’s actually build something!
“The central idea is that if foreign military forces show restraint and respect, and help the local government to govern, then these areas will expand, slowly but persistently, like an oil stain across a shirt. As they grow, the theory says, the Taliban’s standing will decline.”
It’s nice to know that even in these bleak and [...]
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?
“I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell [...]
