February | 2014 | Beth Byrnes

Cherchez la faim

Posted on February 25, 2014 37 Comments

There is so little time to do anything frivolous these days. One thing I miss is listening to NPR. When I visit my relatives in North Carolina, I stay with Annabelle’s parents, two college professors to whom I am related on my mother’s side. They have two big-screen TVs but those are disconnected most of […]

The litter of the law

Posted on February 15, 2014 10 Comments

This may ramble a bit as I spin out and organize my thoughts, free-association style. So, please indulge me. It is interesting how events conflow to produce a series of thoughts or actions related to a particular topic. Earlier this week I posted about Judgment at Nuremberg (on the occasion of Oscar-winning star, Maximillian Schell’s […]

Treasures lost

Posted on February 11, 2014 16 Comments

This is a totally spontaneous post because I happened to read about two people who I really admired passing away this month. Completely tangentially, we decided to try subscribing to the LA Times again, to see if it was any better than the last time we had it delivered. Geoff grew up with this paper, […]

Subscribing to science, believing in God, practicing Christianity

Posted on February 7, 2014 22 Comments

This is a subject that evokes so much emotion, that I will try to keep my ideas and suggestions here brief. I am sure most Americans are aware of the “debate” that took place recently between Bill Nye and Ken Ham on Creationism and Evolution. If you missed it, you can watch it here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/04/271648691/watch-the-creationism-vs-evolution-debate-bill-nye-and-ken-ham. So, […]

It’s All Good Till Someone Loses An Ear

Posted on February 6, 2014 2 Comments

Originally posted on thebufferzoneblog:
Another day, another brotherly scuffle. According to Huffington Post (http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4722926) and an article in the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, police say that 27-year-old Sean Fallon-Nebbia, pictured above, ending up biting part of his brother’s ear off, punching him several times in the face, and knocking him out just to make sure…