Category Archives: Just Too Cool

The world is going to hell in a handbasket, so, let’s watch a funny video!

The economy is a disaster, the Obama Administration is eroding our civil liberty, the world seems to be going to hell. So, let’s have  a video. Who can forget the spectacular commercial with the little kid dressed as Darth Vader? … Read More

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In art news… something great for people in the USA

I like Vermeer.   Therefore, I was pleased to read on The History Blog that Vermeer’s “Girl With A Pearl Earring” is coming to the USA. It will be part of an exhibit. […] The new exhibition, “Girl with a … Read More

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Another view

From Astronomy Pic of the Day:

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Loquerisne latine?

How about a news report from Germany in Latin?

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Lego mannnn! In spaaaaaace!

This is very cool. [wp_youtube]CSBv0u6mPNw[/wp_youtube] I wonder if they would have obtained better shots of the earth were the lego man not the object of the camera’s focus.  Where there was more movement, the camera focused on the earth.  Still… … Read More

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Statue of Our Lady at 1571 Battle of Lepanto comes to light!

An alert reader sent me to an interesting article in Spanish at ABC about the original statue of Our Lady given by Venice to don Juan de Austria that was on the quarterdeck of his flagship (more properly “lantern galley”) … Read More

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Struggling with going to confession? Take heart from a reader.

Struggling with going to confession? Take heart from a reader: I’ve recently begun reading your blog with regularity and was moved by your frequent and urgent calls to the sacrament of confession. I’ve started trying to make a regular monthly … Read More

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A near disaster reconstructed

On a completely different note, remember that USAir flight taking off from LaGuardia in Queens which hits birds, lost both engines and had to land in the Hudson River? There is a digital reconstruction of the flight from the data in the … Read More

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The fruits of fixation!

Just. Too. Cool. From Astronomy Pic of the Day comes this very cool photo. What’s going on? Here is part of their very cool description: From solstice to solstice, this six month long exposure compresses time from the 21st of … Read More

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2nd Grader “has a dream”, and it’s about Pres. Obama, babies, and abortion

For your “Ex ore infantium” file… I saw this at Life Site with my emphases: I received the following from a second grade teacher: The class has been learning about Martin Luther King, Jr., and we were talking about how … Read More

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