February 2010
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A few days ago I logged in to my account at HaloScan, the company that provides the comment service I use here, and was greeted with the announcement that it is shutting down the HaloScan service and replacing it with a new one. February 10 (next Wednesday) is the day HaloScan dies, so I have…
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Spiritual living is accepting reality at any cost. —Simone Weil Quoted in this review of a book that I should probably read. Weil’s remark is one of those that seems to keep opening further the more I think about it. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Maybe you’ve read about the NFL threatening to sue some people in New Orleans who sell football-related stuff (t-shirts, hats, etc.) bearing the words “Who dat?” (Europeans—and Filipinos, and Australians, et.al.—: “Who dat?” = “Who is that?” in some Louisiana and/or African-American dialects.) Great outrage ensued, because the term belongs to Saints fans, not to…
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Sunday Night Journal — January 31, 2010 The contention that to be a conservative is to be less than fully Catholic has a further implication with which I disagree: that there is another set of socio-economic and political opinions which is fully Catholic, and to which therefore a faithful Catholic ought to subscribe. I don’t…
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