Monday, May 15, 2006

Prayer attributed to St. Francis

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"O Lord, make me an instrument of your Peace! Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is dis...

One More Reason I Don't Care What Adam Nagourney Wrote About Democrats

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Because columns about who should win in November, or even who will win, are thumbsuckers. This is what really matters: Somehow, America ha...

O God, come to my assistance

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Make haste to help me . Bad stuff happened in Iraq, stuff Adam Reuter doesn't want to talk about. Not with his friends, not with the lin...
Friday, May 12, 2006

Tipping Point?

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Aren't we past that point by now? "The truth is putting on its boots while a lie has travelled half-way around the world." It ...

The Rock of rocks

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On the Rock of rocks, The peace of Peter and Paul, Of James and John the beloved, And of the pure perfect Virgin, The pure perfect Virgin. T...
Thursday, May 11, 2006

The Irony of American History

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The fortunes of war favored Hrothgar. Friends and kinsmen flocked to his ranks, young followers, a force that grew to be a mighty army. So h...

Serendipity or Spirituality?

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This post was long enough, I decided to add this one. Entirely by coincidence (the first post was published before the show came on the rad...
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Desires

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May I speak each day according to Thy jusice, Each day may I show Thy chastening, O God; May I speak each day according to Thy wisdom, Each ...
Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Prophets, Saints, and Insanity

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Please allow me to apologize for my extended absences from both the blog and the comments. I assumed that I would be able to, and have much ...
Monday, May 08, 2006

In Search of Lost Time

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There must have been a good deal of reality in those Virtues and Vices of Padua, since they seemed to me as alive as the pregnant servant, a...
Sunday, May 07, 2006

Bush responds to "Fahrenheit 911"

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Bush said the worst moment was September 11 when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washing...

"Calgon, take me away!"

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Fifth Sunday of Easter-- I wrote this a few days ago, then withheld posting it. This morning I came to check the news, but by habit went to...
Friday, May 05, 2006

Faith on Earth?

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A few words from H. Richard Niebuhr: Questions about faith arise in every area of human existence. Though me word seems to be primarily reli...

Life imitating art

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Epidermal Macabre--Theodore Roethke Indelicate is he who loathes The aspect of his fleshy clothes, -- The flying fabric stitched on bone, T...
Thursday, May 04, 2006

Seek ye first...

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I was teaching this speech the other day, trying to explain how it functioned, how it was put together, when I realized just how radical it...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Just sayin....

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Okay, there's a complex trail here. Attytood links this claim, not to Vanity Fair, but to Drudge . [Update: Boreas, in comments, provid...

The Wrong Thing

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After seeing Madeleine Albright on "The Daily Show": According to almost every Iraqi, the Americans "came as liberators and n...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006

The Concept of Irony

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Colbert's irony is making me re-read Kierkegaard: Political Washington is accustomed to more direct attacks that follow the rules. We t...

Why Stephen Colbert is "Not Funny"

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Froomkin So let me tell you a bit about my night [at the White House Correspondents' Dinner]. After exchanging brief pointless smalltalk...
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Monday, May 01, 2006

May Day

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According to Garrison Keillor : Today is May Day, a celebration of the return of spring that goes back thousands of years in European tradit...