June 2006
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Annie Lamott Takes Poison She's a sad case–an engaging writer when she isn't screaming at conservatives and especially pro-lifers, a self-professed Christian of eccentric stripe, but there seems to be something essential about the faith that she just somehow doesn't get. I say "sad," but after this story sinks in for a few minutes it's…
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Comment changes This weekend (at the latest) I'm going to get rid of the Blogger comments link ("old blogger comments"), so the "comments" link, which uses the HaloScan commenting facility, will be the only one. Meanwhile, I'm disabling the Blogger comments link on any new posts, for the same reason I'm switching to HaloScan–Blogger comments…
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No Complaint, No Problem One of my daughters just graduated from high school, and a few months ago we were visiting colleges. One large state school had invited her to enter a program advertised as providing, within the context of the big school, a sort of intensified liberal arts program like the one offered by…
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Dumb Headline of the Week (at least) "New Computers Can Read Minds" Even if this technology works, which is at least theoretically possible, do you consider yourself to be reading someone's mind when you infer something about his mental state from the look on his face? Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Neko Case: Blacklisted The story goes that Schumann, on first hearing Chopin play, cried out "Hats off, gentlemen—a genius!" I'm slightly embarrassed to say that something of that sort went through my mind after I'd heard this album a few times. No, I don't really think Neko Case is a genius in the sense…
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A Prayer for the Anglican Communion Like a lot of Catholic bloggers and blog-readers, I've indulged in a certain amount of scoffing and I-told-you-so-ing over the past few days as the Episcopal General Convention pursued its typically unwise ways. Much of this came at the expense of the new Presiding Bishop's inaugural homily, and you…
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Blood and Sapphire It will come as no surprise to any non-Catholic reading this that we Catholics believe some pretty strange things. Catholics, on the other hand, are in some danger of losing sight, by force of habit, of this strangeness. I thought of it as I listened to today's readings for the feast of…
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Music of the Week — June 4, 2006 Massive Attack: Mezzanine I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything described as “trip-hop” that I didn’t like at least mildly. It’s a matter of atmosphere, and to me the style seems a bit mis-named. No doubt the name arose because the style apparently began as a variation…
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After the Revolution I just posted the following in a comment on Dawn Eden's blog, and thought it worth repeating here. It's part of the continuing discussion of Dawn's book referred to below, and I'm replying to a commenter who signs himself (herself?) "Noumena": Noumena refers to "Those of us who are the intellectual children…
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HaloScan Commenting Enabled All right, then. I've added the free commenting service at HaloScan. I'm leaving the few existing comments in place for the moment, the ones listed under "old blogger system" but will plan to remove that code at the end of this month. Now I have to see what it will cost for…
Light On Dark Water 