August 2009
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Outbreaks of zombieism modelled as an infectious disease, with rather dire outcomes a real possibility. (Warning: there’s a rather gruesome photo with that story.) The gratitude of an anxious world goes to Dr. Robert Smith? of the University of Ottawa for bringing attention to this menace. (The question mark is part of his name.) The…
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It seems almost as if there were some equality among things, some balance in all possible contingencies which we are not permitted to know lest we should learn indifference to good and evil, but which is sometimes shown to us for an instant as a last aid in our last agony. —Chesterton This is an…
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It just wasn’t that big a deal in itself. The real story is the power of the myth. And as for a connection between Woodstock and Obama being elected: well, there really isn’t one. The civil rights movement and late ‘60s pop festivals had nothing much to do with each other, except perhaps that both…
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Exasperated 180-pound man to defiant 12-pound dog straining at leash, with all four legs locked in resistance: “Look, you are not the alpha male here. I am.” http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Bella U.S. Catholics, at least, will recall a lot of fuss about this film when it came out in 2007. It was adopted and pushed by pro-life groups who may have done it some harm: they pushed it so hard, buying up whole showings of it etc., that they gave people the impression that it…
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I got in the car yesterday and turned on the radio, which was tuned to the local public radio station, and heard someone talking about Mike Seeger. Gradually it dawned on me that the speaker was using the past tense, and that I was listening to an obituary. When I got home I looked around…
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I’ve been fiddling with this post for ten days or so now. One reason for the delay is that the topic is really too big for a blog post. Re-reading the encyclical, marking passages, and making notes, I realized that I needed to scale back my intended commentary quite a bit. The thing is just…
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Will has been recommending this to me for a while, and I finally watched the first two episodes (streamed from Netflix). I don’t know when I’ve laughed so hard. I had to pause it several times until I finished laughing, so I wouldn’t miss anything. My only reservation is that the crazy and egotistical boss,…
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Dear one, it is loving that matters. (from a biography found at www.elizabethgoudge.org). Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I discovered yesterday that writing a fairly short piece about Caritas in Veritate was more difficult than I thought, and though I spent a while on it I haven’t finished it. In the meantime, I want to get this off my chest. The 40th anniversary of Woodstock arrives in a couple of weeks, and I’m…
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