May 2011
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Sunday Night Journal — May 22, 2011 Now that May 21 has come and gone over the entire world and there can be no trace of hope that Harold Camping's predictions of the apocalypse will come true, most of the world, including me, is having a good laugh about it. But now that it's all…
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Sometimes I'm tempted to have a continuing series of posts with this title, but it might be too depressing even for me. It seems that in California the fraudulent use of handicapped parking spaces is so widespread as to constitute a serious problem. I expect something like that might be true in most places; I've…
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I just returned from Mass. Yes, Saturday evening "vigil" Mass, which I don't really like to attend, but I will have some extenuating family circumstances tomorrow. Besides, my wife had suggested a couple of days ago that it would be a good place to be if the end of the world did actually occur at…
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Weekend Music Both eMusic and Amazon offer a free mp3 every day, frequently from some artist I’ve never heard of. That comes out to about 60 tracks a month, and for a while I tried to hear them all. I had to give that up because there were just too many of them. But I…
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‘Miracle Poodle’ Survives Fall From Sky After Bird Attack I am pasting the whole link in here, in case others want to read the story, but if you do I’d just as soon you not share it with me. I much prefer the scenario in my imagination, which begins with the question how did the…
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And now there's a (non-)computer for people like Wendell Berry. (Hat tip to Jesse Canterbury.)
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and technology, this is an exciting breakthrough:
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That seems to be the rationale for the media attention paid to the latest bit of very ordinary religious speculation on the part of Stephen Hawking. It's a tribute to the authority and prestige of science and scientists–much of it deserved–that a scientist's views on almost anything, no matter how far removed from his area…
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Sunday Night Journal — May 15, 2011 Art and Fear, by David Bayles and Ted Orland. Originally published by Capra Press, 1994; current edition Image Continuum, 2010. * One thing that annoys me about my writing is that it’s so self-centered. It’s not just that I write about myself a lot, it’s also that even…
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The vicar general of our archdiocese is going to Rome. Our loss, Rome's gain. His background–Alabama Protestant convert–is similar to mine, which of course I always like to find in a church where I sometimes feel a bit of a cultural and ethnic outsider. The high opinion of him mentioned in this news story is…
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