Commentary
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The Devil went down to… Langley
It is, of course, the End of the World tonight. Tonight being the 6th of June 2006, or written another way is 6/6/’6 or 666. Which of course was written about in Revelations as the mark of the Beast so naturally it follows that today the world ends. Doesn’t it? As if you needed more
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How to foster doubt in the weatherman
Okay, so this afternoon I received a phone call that started off basically like this…. "Hi, my name is ……., I’m a forecaster with Environment Canada. Could you tell me what the weather is like there right now?" I always thought it was more high tech than that.
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On Wilderness, Wildness and Wolves
That age old fraternity of nature, where man’s presence is unnoticed and his absence un-regretted. William Beebe’s definition of wilderness has always resounded with me. It is wonderful to think that there are places in the world where humankind’s presence goes un-noticed. It is both sad and maddening that those places are shrinking and disappearing
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Found in the Translation
I discovered, through the wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable The Writer’s Almanac, that yesterday was the anniversary of the first printing of the King James Bible in 1611. If you consider the Bible to be literature you can not help but marvel at the prose and poetry that the Kings James version offers. It has fallen