Suddenly Louring Skies

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The morning was typical enough for this horrid late August when Monk went out with Little Bear for the post-breakfast rounds. Monk even took his sunglasses. Yet, withiin that fifteen minutes, the skies suddenly became louring, with heavily dark low-hanging clouds, the winds whipping up, and the air rich with the scent of rain.

Might this be the spell that breaks these late August dog days? This looks like more than another empty tease. We have yet to see...

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Suddenly Louring Skies

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The morning was typical enough for this horrid late August when Monk went out with Little Bear for the post-breakfast rounds. Monk even took his sunglasses. Yet, withiin that fifteen minutes, the skies suddenly became louring, with heavily dark low-hanging clouds, the winds whipping up, and the air rich with the scent of rain.

Might this be the spell that breaks these late August dog days? This looks like more than another empty tease. We have yet to see...

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Will on Whacky Lefties and Intelligent Design

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Some people may think that George Will is a dork, and he can seem a bit tightly wound, and one has to imagine that he was terribly tormented as a child in school. Yet, he often has a sharp and straight-charging way with a point. Alas, this bent is usually directed against the Left, but his column today is a particularly nice piece of work, and Monk enjoys this wit being used in the service against Intelligent Design.

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This summer's movie stars are not the usual bipeds but other animals -- emperor penguins and grizzly bears. Their performances are pertinent to some ongoing arguments.

"March of the Penguins" raises this question: If an Intelligent Designer designed nature, why did it decide to make breeding so tedious for those penguins? The movie documents the 70-mile march of thousands of Antarctic penguins from the sea to an icy breeding place barren of nutrition. These perhaps intelligently but certainly oddly designed birds march because they cannot fly. They cannot even march well, being most at home in the sea.

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Will on Whacky Lefties and Intelligent Design

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Some people may think that George Will is a dork, and he can seem a bit tightly wound, and one has to imagine that he was terribly tormented as a child in school. Yet, he often has a sharp and straight-charging way with a point. Alas, this bent is usually directed against the Left, but his column today is a particularly nice piece of work, and Monk enjoys this wit being used in the service against Intelligent Design.

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This summer's movie stars are not the usual bipeds but other animals -- emperor penguins and grizzly bears. Their performances are pertinent to some ongoing arguments.

"March of the Penguins" raises this question: If an Intelligent Designer designed nature, why did it decide to make breeding so tedious for those penguins? The movie documents the 70-mile march of thousands of Antarctic penguins from the sea to an icy breeding place barren of nutrition. These perhaps intelligently but certainly oddly designed birds march because they cannot fly. They cannot even march well, being most at home in the sea.

( Read more... )

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