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Bikini Leia and stunt double catch some rays - Boing Boing

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:55:03 -0500

Bikini Leia and stunt double catch some rays - Boing Boing

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:32:50 -0500

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Camp Leatherneck Resort & Spa | Abu Muqawama

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:45:52 -0500

Camp Leatherneck Resort & Spa | Abu Muqawama

Awww, you’re both losers. nbclocal: Do you think they...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:38:52 -0500

Awww, you’re both losers.

nbclocal:

Do you think they have a tape line down the center of the bed? Must make things difficult.

ajcates:

makes you wonder how their bedroom is decorated.

nbclocal: This looks like it belongs in the middle of a Disney...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:33:34 -0500

nbclocal:

This looks like it belongs in the middle of a Disney Park.

ktbunch:

Waterworld Meets Van Nuys | NBC Los Angeles

There goes my lunch plans. Now where am I going to get a 1/4 chicken and mash. Poor Boston Market…

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:28:10 -0500

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themattsmith: Another week, another Rejected reference.

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:11:50 -0500

themattsmith:

Another week, another Rejected reference.

"On a spring day last year, three months after the death of my younger son, Max, I opened my front..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:04:36 -0500

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On a spring day last year, three months after the death of my younger son, Max, I opened my front door and saw a butterfly resting on the steps—an Eastern tiger swallowtail, I later determined, a species native to the Northeast but not one I remembered seeing before in the middle of Brooklyn. The date stuck in my mind because, as it happens, it was also my birthday. The butterfly, with its otherworldly beauty and silence, is, of course, a common metaphor for the soul. Its emergence from entombment as a chrysalis may have inspired ideas about human resurrection. In the newsletter of the Compassionate Friends, a support group for bereaved parents, the sudden appearance of butterflies (and birds, cloud formations, and particular songs on the radio) is sometimes cited as evidence of communication from beyond the grave. So let me be clear about where I stand: not only do I not believe it, but I can’t understand why anyone would take comfort from it. I would hate to think of Max, with his fierce intelligence and tenacity, reduced to sending mute signals by way of insects.

I was put in mind of this by reading a new book by Dinesh D’Souza, provocatively titled ‘Life After Death: The Evidence,’ and I can’t help wondering what D’Souza, a well-known conservative political commentator starting a second career as a Christian apologist, would make of my experience. To be consistent, he would have to say nothing at all: it is what scientists call anecdotal evidence, useless by definition, and D’Souza’s book attempts to build a case on unshakable scientific grounds for the survival of consciousness beyond death.

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- Jerry Adler, who is exactly the person you want to review the D’Souza book. (via newsweek)