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Month: June 2019

Saint Boniface’s Day and D-Day

  • Religion
June 24, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Saint Boniface was born about 675 in Anglo-Saxon England.  He was initially named Winfrid by his prosperous and respected family.  At an early age he attended a monastery school, and as a young man he became a monk.  The Pope […]

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A Recent History of ‘Skinny Fat’ or How Fit Were People in the Old Days? 

  • Culture
June 14, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Recently in an airport, I saw and bought a rather provocative issue of Scientific American.  The cover declared that humans ‘evolved’ to exercise, while the most similar forms of life – chimpanzees and bonobos –  function very well as couch potatoes, according to […]

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Should Transit-Oriented Housing be Limited to the Carless?

  • Politics
June 11, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In addition to the NIMBYs and the YIMBYs, we now have the PHIMBYs:  Public Housing in My Back Yard. This new acronym represents those who believe that public-subsidized housing should be added to our cities, but no private enterprise market-rate […]

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On Political Trust and Media Attention

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June 7, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

For a long time, we have spoken of elections, in which a President is not on the ballot, as ‘off-year elections’.  I think the Founders would have been horrified by such a notion.  The Congress, they would have thought, should […]

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Christianity and Science: Two Poles of a Biblical World View

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  • Religion
June 4, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock, in the essay “Miracles” we read this: The experience of a miracle in fact requires two conditions.  First, we must believe in a normal stability of Nature, which means we must recognize […]

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I’m more on the right and I’d like to see the filibuster gone - of the Republicans take back the Senate - party time! https://apple.news/AX6uolPNWQHGj8Cay6H9d-g

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23 Jun

A better way to get affordable housing is filtering - handing down housing that’s already built. We do that with cars. https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2022-06-20/california-affordable-housing-cost-1-million-apartment

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23 Jun

If we’re talking about wearing shorts to the office, seven inch “walking shorts”, as we used to call them, are fine for that. If I’m going to swim, five or four is better. Can’t really do Speedo’s though. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-tiktok-convinced-men-to-buy-really-short-shorts-11598277834

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