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July 31, 2020 at 10:32 pm
Film director Sir Alan Parker who made such movies as Fame, Midnight Express and Pink Floyd – The Wall, and also what was supposed to be Madonna's break into the world of Oscars "Evita".
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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August 3, 2020 at 5:32 pm
John Hume, the man who did more to take the gun out of Irish politics than any other modern era politician, dead at 83.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hume
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August 3, 2020 at 5:36 pm
Somehow we missed Wilford Brimley.
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August 3, 2020 at 6:03 pm
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(August 3, 2020 at 5:36 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Somehow we missed Wilford Brimley.
Bugger. I always liked that old fart. Reminded me of Yosemite Sam on tranquilizers.
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August 4, 2020 at 9:00 am
Susan Ellison, wife of the late SF writer, Harlan Ellison, has passed away.
I wonder what will happen to their extraordinary house known as The Lost Aztec Temple of Mars where Harlan kept, among other things, 500k books and some priceless comics.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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August 9, 2020 at 11:21 am
Frances Allen, computing pioneer, IBM Fellow, and winner of the Turing Prize, dead of Alzheimer’s complications at 88.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_E._Allen
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August 12, 2020 at 2:15 am
Trini Lopez - singer and occasional actor from "The Dirty Dozen" got by COVID-19.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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August 12, 2020 at 7:41 am
[peeks]Not me today[/peeks]
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August 14, 2020 at 4:37 am
Gene Deitch, pioneering American animator and illustrator.
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August 14, 2020 at 7:23 pm
A solomn goodbye to Democracy.
1777-2020
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Conservative trigger warning.
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