Notes and observations. Diversions and digressions. All done far too infrequently.
Sunday, December 19, 2004
What I'm listening to these days
Arvo Part Stabat Mater, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, Zwei Sonatinen for Piano Op. 1
Velvet Revolver Contraband
Friday, December 10, 2004
The enduring legacy of tax cutting; just trust the markets or is it the people?
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Former Soviets and satellites try the flat tax
What does Steve Forbes have to say about this phenomenon? But over at his blog, Larry Kudlow thinks it divine.
Rest in Peace David Brudnoy!
Hear his last interview at WBZ 1030 AM's web page.
You can make a donation to the David Brudnoy Fund for AIDS Research.
Antony Flew's great revelation; An atheist recants
From ABC News.
NEW YORK Dec 9, 2004 รข€” A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now believes in God more or less based on scientific evidence, and says so on a video released Thursday.At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew said in a telephone interview from England.
Flew said he's best labeled a deist like Thomas Jefferson, whose God was not actively involved in people's lives.
"I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins," he said. "It could be a person in the sense of a being that has intelligence and a purpose, I suppose."
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
We are sad in Boston -- extremely sad
A longtime fixture on WBZ-1030 AM in Boston, the libertarian conservative talkmaster battled AIDS for a decade. He is now succumbing to cancer in a local hospital.
Brudnoy was part of the fabric of this city. His voice drifted wonderfully into thousands of kitchens each evening offering enlightening, stimulating and always remarkable conversation.
He will be missed. We love him dearly.