Adventus

"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."--Soren Kierkegaard

Sunday, August 29, 2010

The Departed

In the Martin Scorsese film, every character is chasing every other character, and lying to them, and living a life based on lies and betray...

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Politics, that is. Just noting two things about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two things far beyond "I have a dream" and ...

Friday, August 20, 2010

One Nation, Under Free Willl....

Franklin Graham explains it all for you: "Well, you know, you can be born a Muslim, you can be born a Jew, but you can't be born a ...

August is the longest month....

Courtesy of TPM , we have this from Byron York : In 1985, Barack Obama had just arrived in Chicago for his new job as a community organizer ...

Thursday, August 19, 2010

B'rer Rabbit 'n' me....

Let me clarify a bit what I said below. This is not a "First Amendment" issue because the Constitution only restricts government ...

I only want to say....

Joan Chittister sums up the current discussion about the "mosque" at "Ground Zero" this way: The problem Daisy Khan rais...

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

'Nowt so queer as folk

The problem is, you can only speak about the problem generically: if you are too specific or personal, it's not clear how universal you...

Monday, August 16, 2010

"Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart."

Newt Gingrich: Newt Gingrich plays the Nazi card: "You know, Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Muse...

Friday, August 13, 2010

Meme Watch

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Gingrich wants to re-label unemployment benefits as "welfar...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

...to nowhere....

Been meaning to do this. Kunstler finally persuaded me to : This failure of credentialed and elected authorities will surely unleash the cr...

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Only because it's a topic I write about....

I have to say to Anne Rice : "Okay. Whatever." What I'm tempted to say is: Christianity is not about you; and maybe that...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

This is where I came into the movie....

If I keep posting about racism, it's because it keeps coming up : "What struck me about [the Sherrod speech] was that sort of littl...

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

"What do you have to do? Shoot Medgar Evers?"--Chris Rock

I had gotten this far: Alberich makes me think we should put this "Sherrod affair" in context: BTW, I am curious about something. ...

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