Friday, April 10, 2009

Good Grief Friday

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Rick Perry, Gov. Goodhair of Texas, yesterday : “I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into...

Good Friday 2009

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The music for today should be silence, and darkness the visual. Or Bach, Penderecki, or Ligeti. This is the next best thing:
Thursday, April 09, 2009

Apres moi, le deluge...?

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I'm listening to Richard Wolff on Casino Capitalism on the local Pacifica station. His thesis is that American economic history from 1...

"I've lost my harmonica, Albert!"

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ARIS is making Albert Mohler's tower of Jell-O tremble : There it was, an old term with new urgency: post-Christian. This is not to say...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Waiting For The Big One

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The newest worry is that economic problems will lead to governmental collapse (and, of course, it could happen here! ). And certainly, tha...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Here be Tygers

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Time to bring this up again : Torture, as the former vice-president's words suggest, is a critical issue in the present of our politics—...
Saturday, April 04, 2009

Thanks, we needed that?

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Begun, the religious blog wars have : Blogs and other media outlets have recently been buzzing with stories about "rifts" on the r...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Everything old is new again....and again....

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First, here's the clear statement on what "Abu Zabaida" (nee Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein) provided in the way of "int...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

All God's Children Need Each Other....

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Yesterday, the President mentioned morality and ethics at his press conference : No. I think there's, there's always an ethical and ...
Monday, March 23, 2009

All God's Children Need Cellphones

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Just to add an addendum to what was said before, WaPo notes : To the usual trappings that help many homeless people endure life on the stre...
Friday, March 20, 2009

All God's Children Need Shoes

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Maslow's hierarchy of needs tells us what is basic to human existence, but it also makes us presume civilization as we know it is the f...