Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Oh, Please...

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Sen. Charles Schumer tries to square the circle : I AM voting today to support Michael B. Mukasey for attorney general for one critical reas...
Monday, November 05, 2007

Once more into the breach

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NOW WITH EVEN MORE RECENT UPDATES! (VERY POSH!) Well, you can start with this , from yesterday: For more than five months the United States...
Friday, November 02, 2007

All Soul's Day--2007

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Almighty and everlasting God, before whom stand the spirits of the living and the dead; Light of lights, Fountain of wisdom and goodness, wh...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

All Saints Day 2007

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Revelation 7:9-17 7:9 After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and p...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Hallowe'en

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Upon that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or for Col...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The Long Emergency and the Short Imagination

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Atrios got me thinking about this when he linked to Matthew Yglesias , who also is puzzled by the concerns of people like Kunstler. But fr...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

"Religion is responsibility or it is nothing at all."

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This NYT Magazine article ("The Evangelical Crackup") is allowing me to trot out all my hobbyhorses. Begin with what I regard as...

And now for a completely typical blog post...

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I guess it depends on what you mean by " political ": The Internal Revenue Service has told a prominent Pasadena church that it ha...
Saturday, October 27, 2007

Give the King your justice, O Lord!

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Open your blog-doors to people, you get all kinds of good stuff *: The small church parking lot on the busy corner of Young and Harwood stre...

Riding my hobbyhorse

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I'm always looking for something good to post about, and Grandmere Mimi has given it to me. Even if there still doesn't seem to be a...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Watching Constantine, Reading Golem

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Complaining about these things is like trying to keep the tide from coming in; you might convince a few people to stand on the beach with yo...

St. Crispin's Day

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Stricken from the liturgical calendar, but not from the hearts of English majors everywhere: KING HENRY V What's he that wishes so? My c...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Thanks to DAS

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Who posted, in comments below, what I was hoping for: something from the Jewish tradition. " These remind me of Hoshanos which specif...

The three men I admire most...They caught the last train for the coast

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The situation in California is one of those instances perhaps better suited to the Internet than to television. TV could show us the floodin...

We beseech thee! Hear us!

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Athenae sent me (as usual), looking for some prayers of intercession. I found these, instead; and decided they were the thing that was need...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Don't know much about history...

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You know, I could really learn to enjoy American history. For example: NPR this morning ran a story about the drought in Atlanta . Turns out...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Son of Same As It Ever Was

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Speaking of metaphors , cultures can be said to have a kind of "genetic inheritance" in them, traits and conditions and even behav...