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Archive for January, 2010

#nowplaying: Jethro Tull

by: Madcap January 29, 2010

Jethro Tull – Live at Madison Square Garden (1978)
I thought that I’d listen to some Tull tonight. I found this show from 1978.
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Quote Of The Day: Guess Who?

by: Madcap January 29, 2010

I’m giving two options as to who uttered the following statement:

“Second, restructuring is imperative. The old economic model that rested on bubble economics, cheap labor, financial manipulation and speculation, deregulation, capital outsourcing, environmental degradation, and so forth, has to be replaced by a new model that expands and restructures the productive base and is people [...]

Why Is the South So Religious? Randall Stephens Answers – Science and Religion Today

by: Madcap January 29, 2010

Flannery O’Connor wrote about the Christ-haunted South. The buckle of the Bible Belt. The heart of the heart of God’s country. She could not throw her pen in the air in Dixie without it landing on some wild, fascinating tale of Jesus maniacs, tortured believers, crippled visionaries, or teeth-gnashing atheists: “Whenever I’m asked why Southern [...]

“Pakistan shielding 26/11 masterminds”

by: Madcap January 29, 2010

NEW DELHI: Pakistan was shielding masterminds of the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, including Lashkar-e-Taiba founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here on Thursday.
Mr. Chidambaram reiterated that Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi was one of the masterminds. “There are others. We know their names and Pakistan also knows their names. If they [...]

Posters looted by Nazis ‘won’t be returned to Jewish family’

by: Madcap January 29, 2010

The ruling by the Berlin court of appeals stunned relatives of Hans Sachs, and came despite Germany's signature of the Washington Principles in 1998 agreeing to the restitution of art plundered by the Nazis.
Mr Sachs took 40 years to build one of the world's largest collections of rare posters only to see it looted at [...]

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