Sunday, January 30, 2011

Captain Blood Did Not Save the Whales

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Captain Blood Did Not Save the Whales Captain Blood, the 1922 Rafael Sabatini novel on which the terrific Olivi...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Woolly Booger Scientists from several countries are using the frozen DNA of a long-gone woolly mammoth in an at...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Katherine Mattie Bevil Blanchette Hall, 1922 - 2011

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Katherine Mattie Bevil Blanchette Hall In 1917, Louie MacMicken (Mack) Bevil left off pitching pine-knots into the firebox of a Santa Fe loc...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Saving Private Robot

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Saving Private Robot 30 robots wearing European faces and controlled by Filipino technicians are teaching Engli...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

A Remembrance of Death

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The last summer leaves at last spinning silently down in the grey, misty, dying days of December often remind thoughtful men of their own mo...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Patented Electrical Reading Machine & Moustache Waxer

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Patented Electrical Reading Machine & Moustache Waxer For Christmas long ago my parents gave me a boy’s...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas Among the Sandbags

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Christmas Among the Sandbags An old Navy buddy telephoned me for Christmas, and we marched down memory grinder ...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Advent Rosary

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Advent Rosary Dark Advent is a silent waiting time When autumn chills into pale, year-end days And joy seems smothered by hard-frosting rime...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

False Grit: The Remake of True Grit

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com False Grit True Grit has been remade, and we true-as-blue-steel John Wayne fans are as apoplectic as Yosemite ...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Religious Vocations

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In all of East Texas there are perhaps ten men who have not been called to the Christian ministry, a record matched only in certain counties...

Black Friday -- News from the Front

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Black Friday – News from the Front Once upon a time holidays did not feature casualty lists or after-action rep...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Infallibility of Catholic Bloggers

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Not even the most ego-driven Bishop of Rome in the Church's 2,000 year history ever claimed the all-encompassing infallibility of a too-...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

The Heartbreak of Superfluous Jails

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Heartbreak of Superfluous Jails Beaumont, Texas has an unused jail sitting in the middle of downtown, and n...

"The Vatican says..."

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Any statement beginning with "The Vatican says..." is almost surely a thumping lie. The Vatican is a city-state; it doesn't s...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

The Government in Your Underwear

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Government in Your Underwear Suppose that you were in World War II. Or perhaps in Korea, Lebanon, V...

The Government in Your Underwear

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Government in Your Underwear Suppose that you were in World War II. Or perhaps in Korea, Lebanon, Viet-Nam...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Cleopatra in Rome

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Cleopatra in Rome In 46 B.C. Cleopatra and her entourage of sycophants and slaves journeyed to Rome to make obe...

Education for the 21st Century

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Bubbles. #2 pencils. Bubbles. #2 pencils. If the greatest challenge to American youth is a blank bubble that needs shading with a #2 pen...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

What's in Your Calendar?

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com What’s in Your Calendar? Ipops and Blueberries are not a part of my life; small electronic gadgets look at me,...

Stalin's Office

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Did Stalin's office staff play "Secret Santa?"