by Jan Bear | Mar 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
After years of “edginess” and “speaking truth to power,” Borders Bookstores (and its little brother Waldenbooks) has rolled over before the Islamist fringe.Borders and Waldenbooks stores will not stock the April-May issue of Free Inquiry...
by Jan Bear | Mar 18, 2006 | Uncategorized
The George Mason University Speech Accent Archive.Native and non-native English speakers from around the world read a short paragraph, giving a flavor of what makes their pronunciation different.
by Jan Bear | Mar 7, 2006 | Uncategorized
He’s on the dining room table eating your dinner and growling at you.This symposium in Front Page Magazine explains what the cartoon fracas was really all about, in the context of increasing incidents of gang rape of non-veiled women:The conduct towards these...
by Jan Bear | Mar 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
O Lord and Master of my life,Take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power and idle talk,But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to your servant.Yea, Lord and King, grant me to see my own faults and not judge my brother,For you...
by Jan Bear | Mar 3, 2006 | Uncategorized
It’s been a really bad week, and now, to top it all off, I find myself siding with Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown in a plagiarism lawsuit filed by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, the 1982 work of...