Spectre’s Sayings

This is very interesting.

Catholic Church Conservation: Catholics fiercest anti-nazis in pre-war Germany.

How Bronze Age man enjoyed his pint, from BBC News.

Update: Here’s a link to the website of the lads who did the experiment.

Tour Bell’s Brewery Inc.

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Did you know that you’re not allowed to use iTunes to create WMDs?

Cool: British Steam Car Hits the Road En Route to 170 MPH at Bonneville from Popular Mechanics.

Heller was affirmed by the Supreme Court this morning.

Update: This means that the Supreme Court ruled that the D.C. gun ban law is unconstitutional. It appears to have been 5-4 along ideological lines. Justice Scalia wrote the opinion. Justice Breyer dissented, joined by Justices Stevens, Souter and Ginsburg.

H/T: Scotusblog

Another Update: Apparently, there are two written dissenting opinions, but only one majority opinion.

Update 9:25 a.m.: Here’s a link to Justice Scalia’s opinion upholding Heller. I’m sure it will take me a while to read it.

The SJ-R is reporting that AFSCME is requesting a mediator, and that the current contract is to be extended past its June 30th expiration date.

That last bit is a relief.

ZENIT is reporting that the Opening of Pauline Year will be an ecumenical celebration, with Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I scheduled to attend, along with leaders of other Christian communions.

Lara Logan on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show:

Concurring Opinions has a piece on what it would mean if Justice Scalia writes the majority opinon in the D.C. gun ban case.

Yesterday, I finished reading The Summer Palace by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It’s the third of a trilogy (The Annals of the Chosen), not a stand-alone novel. But it was a fun read, and it brought the series to a close nicely.

If you like books in the fantasy genre, check this trilogy out.

A commentary by the Toronto SunAnyone care about free speech?

Jennifer F., over at Conversion Diary, has a great post about “converting for intellectual reasons.” I encourage you to read it.

In it, she hits upon a point that cannot be made too often: Faith and Reason are not opposed to each other. While she doesn’t go into great detail about this point, it is one that I believe needs to be stressed, given that this truth is contrary to what seems to be one of the prevailing mythologies of our time.