Wednesday, June 25, 2008

What Does the Lord Require of You?

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I have to admit, I do love a good fight. In this corner , Barack Obama: "I think you'll see that he was just making stuff up, maybe...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Son of Same As It Ever Was

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The most surprising feature of business as it was conducted was the large attention given to finance and the small attention to service. Tha...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Do You Know What It Means....?

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As I noted when Atrios put this up: In any event, it is not clear why the United States would need more than a handful of big bases in the...

Pompeii

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The museum here had an exhibit of items and casts made from the ruins of Pompeii. Most of the items were jewelry and metalwork which had s...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

...while Truth is putting on its boots.

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So a Senate Committee has determined that military psychologists were used to create "aggressive interrogation techniques" agains...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Father's Day 2008

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"Now begins the craft of the father..." O God, our heavenly Father, by whose wisdom mankind has been ordained to live in families,...
Thursday, June 12, 2008

The World's Largest Gryffindor Reunion

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Wounded Bird had this up as of yesterday, but I just found it today. And remarkably timely it is, too, not to mention remarkably coincide...

Before we lose track of this

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The New York Times makes the best case for the Supreme Court ruling handed down today: The detainees at the center of the case decided on T...

The foul rag and bone shop....

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Is forgiveness rational? I'm listening (as I write) to a local radio program, and Stephen Kinzer is promoting his book about Rwanda, so ...
Sunday, June 08, 2008

Sunday Morning very bright....

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This isn't exactly finished, but I stopped writing on it, and then I thought: "It's a blog post. What the heck?" Fr. Jake ...
Thursday, June 05, 2008

My $.02 on why Hillary Lost

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There are a lot of reasons, of course: mistakes, strategy, organization; some even say misogyny. So I think this is only one, among many. St...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

One Other Thing

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Coming back to this , I saw this at Wounded Bird, which sent me to this at Fr. Jake's, which made me think about this, from the same f...

Goodbye to all that

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Life's a sparrow lost at sea In dark of night, with far to go Dreams are ships that sail the waves. We are only cargo. Senator Hillary R...

Lunch Break

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Jacques Derrida, in a 1999 edition of Donner la mort ("The Gift of Death"), newly translated into English, added a priére d’insér...
Sunday, June 01, 2008

An Open Letter to Barack Obama

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You said, Sen. Obama , in explaining your decision to leave your church after 20 years: "My faith is not contingent on the particular c...
Friday, May 30, 2008

la Pucelle

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Now the flames they followed Joan of Arc as she came riding through the dark; no moon to keep her armour bright, no man to get her through t...

Now is the winter of our discontent, or: Friday Morning Document Dump

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Thers got me started on this train of thought, when he managed to get quite a few people worked into a lather over the question of ideology ...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Thursday Evening Document Dump

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Media bashing is usually somebody else's schtick , but this one annoys me so much I can't stand it anymore. Watch the "convers...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Notable Quotables (one in a series)

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A further consequence of modern optimism is a philosophy of history expressed in the idea of progress. Either by a force immanent in nature...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Memorial Day 2008: Tenting Tonight on the Old Campground

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We're tenting tonight on the old camp ground, Give us a song to cheer Our weary hearts, a song of home, And friends we love so dear. Cho...