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"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

Wednesday, June 01, 2011

These Things That Pass for Knowledge I Don't Understand....

I just finished reading "Dragonrider" in my Science Fiction Hall of Fame collection. It's such a long story I somehow never ...

Monday, May 30, 2011

Memorial Day 2011

Perhaps it began as "Decoration Day." Probably it was a memorial for the dead, like Samhain or Dios de los muertos . Now it is ...

Monday, May 23, 2011

Apocalypse Not Just Now

Part of the unacknowledged problem of Harold Camping is right here in this CBS sub-headline : May 20, 2011 How Harold Camping marketed the R...

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Weekend Update

I am shamelessly stealing this from Dependable Renegade , who also took it from somewhere else. Anyway, after Saturday it won't matter, ...

Streams in the Food Deserts

When Stephen Hawking lost his ability to talk he was given back his voice by another person. It is not our own dead bodies that raise us fro...

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Vanity of Vanities!

Stephen Hawking says there is no heaven. Which leaves me wondering: what if Stephen Hawking said the verities of love were a myth? What ...

Friday, May 06, 2011

Judgment at Erewhon

I find most of the discussion of torture revolves around fictions, be it the fiction that "torture works" or the fiction that ...

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Torture Does Not Work

Josh Marshall, who should know better: As a more general matter it's important to recognize that torture could easily have produced the...

Monday, May 02, 2011

NUNC LENTO SONITU DICUNT, MORIERIS.

I wasn't going to do this, at all; comment on the death of Osama bin Laden, I mean. But my work here is largely reactive, and when I re...

Friday, April 29, 2011

A Day on Which Absolutely Nothing Happened*

Wounded Bird does an otherwise excellent post on the Royal Wedding today, saving me the trouble (what is it about weddings? I swore I w...

Sunday, April 24, 2011

In lieu of yet another Easter post

I will assume the devoted religious/faithful among my audience (devoted to actually reading this blog,however occasionally, I mean) will hav...

Friday, April 22, 2011

Good Friday 2011

Good Friday should be silent. The church should be shrouded, the altar stripped, funereal cloths draped, only prayers and whispers heard. ...

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Maundy Thursday evening

Because Good Friday should be silent:

Maundy Thursday 2011

Because Maundy Thursday deserves music:

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Holy Week and Christ Crucified

This is what we should be meditating on for Holy Week: In Atheist Delusions, David Bentley Hart has described the Christian revolution in t...

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Holy Week Begins

Not my favorite version, but the best quality I could find on short notice. Although it should end with the far more plaintive plea of the ...

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Waters of Oblivion

The consistent thread through the Hebrew scriptures into the proclamation of the basileia tou theou is that humans must eschew and avoid pol...

Thursday, April 07, 2011

Why I went into the woods

Stirring the pensieve again... And speaking of the demonic: Austin - Today Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee unanimously voted...

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