Monday, April 16, 2007

Virginia Tech University 4/16/07

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Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. O God, give us your Wisdom O God, give us your mercy, O God, give us your fullness...
Friday, April 13, 2007

In Memory of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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Been pondering how best to rememer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and what his work meant for me once upon a time. And, reading this at Street Prophet...
Thursday, April 12, 2007

Romanticism: 1; Enlightenment: 0

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In an excerpt from a BBC News interview broadcast on the news of his death, Kurt Vonnegut discussed the fire-bombing of Dresden. He talked a...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

The Hard Question

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This has come back up again, largely because Pastor Dan caught up with it , and prompted some very interesting, and sincere, comments over ...

A literary diversion

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It may be because the personalities I perceived in her at that time were so various that I later took to turning into a different person, de...

There must be some kind o' way outta here....

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This really isn't that hard to figure out : Iraq has become a "combat training zone for jihadists" as a result of the US-led w...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Return to the Irony of American History

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This story on NPR was simply so good, it deserves special mention. Maybe because, when it started in on a new production of "Inherit th...

IMHO, or: Why Your Blog Sucks

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Everytime I think I'm out, they drag me back in! It's my fault, of course. I spend too much of my time reading blogs. I recognize th...
Monday, April 09, 2007

Everything Old Is New Again

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This just sounds so familiar: Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation. Mulally...

You got to have spin

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I heard the story of Robert Daniels on Democracy Now . It sounded to me like life in hell, so I went looking about for more information. I f...

Who's in Charge Here?

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Pay very, very careful attention to the statements being made here ; statements being made to justify conditions that we protest, when someo...
Sunday, April 08, 2007

Ubi et Orbi Easter 2007

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Sylvia Poggioli, on Weekend Sunday Edition this morning , reported that Pope Benedict said "nothing positive" has come out of Iraq...

Easter Sunday 2007

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And when the sabbath day was over, Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices so they could go and embalm him. An...
Saturday, April 07, 2007

Holy Saturday 2007

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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Friday, April 06, 2007

As I've said before

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on more than one ocassion: Sam Harris is nuts . I don't think much of Richard Dawkins , either. And given what day it is, I certainly...

Good Friday 2007

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The music for this day should be Bach. For better or worse, for me it is inextricably the final music of "Jesus Christ Superstar."...
Thursday, April 05, 2007

Pax Romana

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I've been very cautious about leaping to the conclusion that George W. Bush's piety, or even his projected piety, had a profound, ra...

God, thy will is hard....

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Music for Maundy Thursday. (He's no Ian Gilliam, but otherwise....)

The Sacrament of the Last Supper

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Wounded Bird has a wonderful meditation on the Last Supper . To the mystery of the presence in the elements, I would only add this, in orde...

Maundy Thursday-2007

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"The traditional English name for the Thursday preceding Easter, derived from the first antiphon of the ceremony of the washing of the ...