Monday, March 17, 2014

St. Patrick's Day 2014

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Two ways to observe it which have nothing to do with parades or green beer.  This is the other one. I arise today through a mighty str...

The call is coming from inside the house!

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Didn't they make him a Cardinal? I used to have this book; darned if I know what happened to it.  Maybe it's still on a shelf...
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Friday, March 14, 2014

Waiting for Superman

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This slipped beneath the waves at Slate (only 50 comments when last I looked, and the last 2 days ago.  I had to find it through Google;...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Plus ca change....

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If he isn't weeping, he should be. In the novel Martin Chuzzlewit our eponymous hero finds himself in America, and almost immediat...
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So I cheered up, and sure enough....

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Almost unbelievably, things get worse: Ryan has deliberately left the cameras behind during his excursions to poor neighborhoods this...

White Man's Burden

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Yesterday all the past: Citing Charles Murray , the libertarian academic and pundit who has previously argued that poverty is largely...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The Spheres Are in Commotion

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Not to be anti-scientific, but: “Once science has been established, once a scientific truth emerges from a consensus of experiments...
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The ones who walk away from Western civilization....

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Maybe I'm straining at gnats and swallowing camels, but help me out here, I'm confused. Per Thought Criminal we come upon this...
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Monday, March 10, 2014

Jesus Saves...bullets for self-defense

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Apropos of nothing really, but the question of salvation, and of competing soteriologies; but when I say that some soteriologies put emph...

The Myth of Fingergprints

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So, is it raining, or not? I am old.  I am cranky.  I like fine distinctions, the kind most people can't be bothered to make.  So ...
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Friday, March 07, 2014

Because sometimes you have to laugh instead of cry....

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In lieu of a picture, we have Jon Stewart: Who says it better than any commentary I've heard yet. Which would be sad, but at least w...
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Thursday, March 06, 2014

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!!!!!!!!!!!

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MORE BARN!!!!! You purchase it with every firearm you buy, and you earn it by shooting all the monsters: "You know, freedom ha...
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Lent 2014

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 * When wilt thou save the people? O God of mercy, when? The people, Lord, the people, Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy he...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Ash Wednesday 2014--All Fall Down

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MEMENTO, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris. Remember, human, that you are dust, and to dust you will return --Genesis 3...

Stop Making Sense

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This isn't exactly the "religion" Bonhoeffer was critiquing, but I think had he known it in Germany, he would have: Acc...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2014

"Freedom is not free"

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"A person with a gun is a citizen; a person without a gun is a victim."--A Florida legislator, per Rachel Maddow's show ...
Monday, March 03, 2014

"Nietzsche is dead."--God

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I haven't read the book (and don't intend to; life is too short), but according to the early reviews, Peter Watson's "in...
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New Wine in Old Wineskins

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This , of course, is ever the problem: Rev. John Bambrick, pastor of a parish in Jackson Township, part of the Diocese of Trenton, told...