As rain shifts to snow, mushy morning rush is forecast — chicagotribune.com Afternoon rains turned to snow Monday evening as a storm expected to bring around 6 inches of snow moved into the Chicago area. It started snowing around 2pm today. In spite of grumbling about the cold and the piles of grey, frozen blocks of slush along the margins of the roads, I really love how pretty everything gets after a few hours of snow. Big fat flakes came down as I drove home, and it was starting to “stick” on the parking lot and not melt away. A…
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Keith Olbermann makes it 13 times that the Bush administration used a suspiciously timed terror alert or arrest announcement to either negate unfavorable news, or neutralize positive news about political opponents. Only thirteen times? But it’s linked at One Utah: One Utah » Blog Archive » The Nexus of Politics and Terror (and Lying)
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Audio: Confessions: Online Only: The New Yorker This week in the magazine, in an excerpt from her book “The Bishop’s Daughter,†Honor Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret. Here Moore talks about her father’s public service and private life. As noted at Preludium and The Lead. Moore’s voice is warm and calm, except when she talks about her disappointment at not being able to discuss something she had in common with her father; her private life was more open, but he was a man of his generation, and not able to…
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My friend Ellen’s husband runs a blog about archeology, and today it had an item about the Church of England’s current upheaval… no, not that upheaval, the one about the fancy bishop’s palaces going on the market because they’re perceived as an extravagance in an era when ordinary parish priests have trouble making ends meet. Archaeology in Europe: 02/01/2008 – 03/01/2008 Resplendent with moats, gatehouses and banqueting halls, bishops’ palaces are among some of the grandest buildings in the country.Now, however, the historic homes, which have belonged to the Church of England for centuries, could be sold off in a…