tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78003677550622397422024-02-19T09:13:28.660-08:00Rabbert RuminatesKinda says it all, don't it?Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-7671495327481355802010-02-24T16:08:00.000-08:002010-02-24T16:11:33.942-08:00Where to find meThe other day, a friend pointed out that I haven't posted to this blog for a month. I had to admit that I've let it slide. And, considering the current state of affairs, I don't see myself returning to it in the near future.
So, if you haven't already, please hop over to my main blog: Virtue Quest.
And don't forget to check out the group blog I'm writing for: Coalition for Clarity.
See you Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-5794047935773101672010-01-23T13:47:00.000-08:002010-01-23T13:50:32.821-08:00New bloggy goodness!Just so you know, I've been invited to contribute to a new blog, Coalition for Clarity, which is opposing the crime of torture. My first post there is up today!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-12608112251848652252010-01-12T23:38:00.000-08:002010-01-12T23:51:17.651-08:00Shakespere and Coen Bros., together at last!Some genius has noticed just how Shakesperean is the classic Coen Bros. film, The Big Lebowski. They have translated it into the form Shakespeare himself might have used. Behold: Two Gentlemen of Lebowski!
Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-43327228800597866082010-01-02T10:10:00.000-08:002010-01-02T10:16:07.279-08:00For the fidelity fileAn article in the Daily Mail points out that, when it comes to infidelity, it's the woman who gets the worst of it.
In other news, scientists are stunned to discover that fire is hot!Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-75699582081498733372009-12-26T10:56:00.000-08:002009-12-26T11:02:16.781-08:00What my Christmas was likeOr, maybe, what I wish it had been like...
Hat tip to Just Jen.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-83857264678655055632009-12-22T21:32:00.000-08:002009-12-22T21:34:38.390-08:00From the only reliable news source on the webMost Children Are Unrepentant Sociopaths
My friends who are parents can confirm the truth of this important study.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-788659393052349922009-12-20T15:48:00.000-08:002009-12-20T16:21:58.864-08:00Catching up...Just some links to interesting stuff. Mostly, I've been trying to catch up on all sorts of things that need finishing before Christmas. Till soon....!
Good news from India about Catholic and Orthodox Christians working together!
Is there a "God Spot" in our brains? Just Jen says, "Whoa!" ... and more!
Remember Terri Shiavo? Here's an Indian in a similar spot, who has a "social activist" actingRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-71149757577967570402009-12-13T18:56:00.000-08:002009-12-13T20:11:47.881-08:00When agenda overcomes scienceI'm not too worried about whether or not global warming climate change is "true" or "false". I think the worst thing that could come from paying attention to environmental impact and striving for maximum efficiency is a cleaner and more efficient world to live in.But then there are those who step beyond the pale of rationality. For example, Diane Francis, who suggests that the only way to save Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-45811862396966460382009-12-07T15:58:00.000-08:002009-12-07T16:00:39.498-08:00Buffy v. Edward
What can I say? Buffy's my kind of girl!
H/T to John C. Wright.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-12113456332037811922009-12-05T11:25:00.000-08:002009-12-05T11:37:53.150-08:00Monk finaleJust reprinting my semi-review, semi-reflection on the Monk finale from Virtue Quest:I’ve been watching “Monk” with my family for some time, and we all gathered around the tele last night for the series finale.For those who don’t watch much TV, the show follows Adrian Monk (played by Tony Shalhoub), a former detective for the San Francisco Police whose OCD went into overdrive when he lost his Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-11861120909458134512009-11-30T13:24:00.001-08:002009-11-30T13:29:19.237-08:00Difficulties of modern languageAren't names these days just getting downright unpronounceable? To say nothing of trying to spell them. For example:
And yes, Mr. Laurie is actually a brit. He puts on an American accent for House.
H/T to Just Jen.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-90740962437886443212009-11-20T10:01:00.000-08:002009-11-20T10:07:23.593-08:00Contaminating the ether...This is fascinating, and strange, and perhaps the reason that we have not been contacted by extraterrestrials since the 1950's:
From Abstruse Goose, via Strange Maps.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-26663228169636119602009-11-19T12:19:00.000-08:002009-11-19T12:22:31.610-08:00Virtue can be fun!The trick to living virtuously is to see the good in every virtuous act, even something as simple as climbing the stairs.
Crossposted at my other blog.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-81058757687866234402009-11-16T12:17:00.000-08:002009-11-16T12:22:12.322-08:00Sheer geniusThe Lord of the Rings as a 1940's Bogey vehicle:
Why is it that this nine-minute wonder captures more of Tolkien's mythopoesy than Peter Jackson's twelve-hour monstrosity?
Tip o' the hat to Donald McClarey.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-5085755867507713272009-11-14T15:06:00.000-08:002009-11-14T15:18:33.007-08:00Random stuff - or is it?So, I'm sort of obsessed with the motion of fluids (including liquids and gasses), and the motion of objects in fluids. I could watch a rolling stream, or milk swirling in coffee, for hours.
This is a visual of how Einstein explained this apparently random motion, known as Brownian motion:
I found this on a physics site at the University of Virginia. If you don't think this is cool, then Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-39665804322899242582009-11-11T15:50:00.000-08:002009-11-11T15:55:06.701-08:00Status updateAs I mentioned on my other blog, I got in an argument on-line over the past week, and the truth is I've been taking it too much to heart. It's crazy how it just eats away at you, hurt and resentment and fear of being wrong.
But then today I had a job interview, during which the interviewer told me that I basically had the job. It's not a great job, and I'll wait till I actually sign the papers Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-4544722049939014202009-11-09T12:20:00.000-08:002009-11-09T12:59:28.818-08:00Behold the true Jedi mastersI've been told that there are some who hate the movie, "The Men who Stare at Goats". I'd like to meet them. I'd like to know what there is to hate about this movie.Now, I'll grant you that it's no "Casablanca". It's no "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". But it's a movie that I certainly wish George Lucas had made instead of "The Phandom Menace" and "Attack of the Clowns".It is a journey, ifRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-72796713755994244272009-11-09T12:15:00.001-08:002009-11-09T12:20:45.351-08:00Movie: Blood MoneyA friend sends along this link to the film Blood Money. There's also a trailer on YouTube. It's an exposee on the abortion industry in general and on Planned Parenthood in particular. Well worth a look.
Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-31349736132210352422009-11-06T08:19:00.000-08:002009-11-06T08:24:25.671-08:00I'm not so sure about this...Breaking News: Catholic Deacon publishes "The Order by which People Get Into Heaven"!!
The part that makes me skeptical?
To be admitted only after review by the Screening Board (Catherine of Siena, chairwoman), the Board of Appeals (Meher Baba, chairman) and the Last Gasp Committee (Cardinal Joseph Bernadin, chairman): poets, novelists, buskers, spies, New York Yankees fans.
Yankees fans I Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-28535996019260733232009-11-05T16:05:00.000-08:002009-11-05T16:09:45.734-08:00Dilbert on moral relativismHat tip to Mike Flynn.
Heh heh heh. Witnesses. Heh heh heh.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-21886274953408999012009-11-04T15:40:00.000-08:002009-11-05T09:07:24.914-08:00Profits not satanic?Um, strictly speaking, true.But there is such a thing as usury:an unconscionable or exorbitant rate or amount of interest; specifically : interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of moneyAnd one who makes his wealth by usury ought not defend himself in this manner.I mean, if justifying your lies and theft in a church isn't also a violation of the Second Commandment, I Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-63647474420703833672009-11-04T14:59:00.000-08:002009-11-05T08:47:00.825-08:00New blog up and running!So here it is!
Virtue Quest
The focus is, as the title (I hope) indicates, an exploration of ways to develop virtue and grow as a human being. Based mainly on the negative examples of my own life.
I.e., if you want to grow in virtue, don't act like me.
I apologize for my neglect of this blog. That hasn't been my intention. But now that it's up and running, I should be able to post regularly Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-74947793804955525432009-10-31T18:25:00.000-07:002009-10-31T18:28:54.295-07:00New bloggy goodness!I mentioned a little while back that I'm trying to make a go as a freelance writer. To that end, I'm starting up a couple "professional" blogs, that I hope will garner an audience beyond just my friends.
I was planning to launch them Nov. 1, that is, tomorrow. And it looks like I'll actually have one of them up and running. The other should be up a little later this week.
What can I say but, Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-88138759337676874532009-10-31T10:16:00.000-07:002009-10-31T10:19:55.753-07:00I'm so proud to be a sad paranoid schizoid!
Hat tip to Mike Flynn.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800367755062239742.post-33952799852507385852009-10-30T14:38:00.000-07:002009-10-30T14:44:47.777-07:00Apologies...Sorry I've been off-line for the past couple weeks. At first, I was off in the boonies of North Carolina without any internets access; then I was in the not-so-boonies of North Carolina, where internets access cost $5/hour; then I was back home, recovering from travel; and then ... um, I was just a little lazy.
Sorry!
I'll bring you up to date a little later. In the meantime, go ahead and Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00382486804381369375noreply@blogger.com0