September 2011
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Click on the comic at the beginning of this post at There Are Real Things (aka the Incarnationalist International). The "How It Should Have Ended" videos are funny, although I'm too hazy about the Terminator movies to get all of that.
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Seventy-seven! This is one of his less well-known songs, and an old favorite of mine. It's on Songs From A Room, the first of his albums I ever heard. I knew the song "Suzanne" from recordings by others and wasn't crazy about it, but Songs From A Room made me a convert. Mike Wright, wherever you are,…
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It seems to be a popular rhetorical device these days to describe any opposition to something you favor as a declaration of war against it. The first time I remember hearing it was some twenty years ago, during one of the periodic battles over the National Endowment for the Arts, in which conservatives object to…
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Sunday Night Journal — September 18, 2011 Now and then I talk to someone who’s visited Rome, and almost always, especially if the person is Catholic, I’m told that it’s a wonderful experience. And I say “Yes, I’m sure it is,” but I always feel a little guilty that I don’t feel more enthusiasm for…
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My local paper has a daily "Today in History" feature which includes a list of famous people whose birthdays fall on the day. I read it frequently, I think with a somewhat morbid fascination, bothering my wife with news items such as "Oh look, this actress who was a beautiful girl in that movie is…
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Some people think it foolish to ask God for little things, but I do not think it matters at all what one asks for, so long as in asking for anything one recognizes one's own dependence on God…. Sometimes a tiny childish thing brings home to us more than a big thing the intense love which can…
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Weekend Music Yes, this is the song I had originally intended to post last week. I had a strange experience with it a couple of weekends ago. It was Sunday morning, and I had an online "radio" program playing. This song came on, and although I had heard it before and liked it, for…
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A bumper sticker (well, actually, a rear-window sticker) that I saw today: "Oh no! Not another learning experience!
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Via Image magazine on Facebook, here are two articles by the same person, Lillian Daniels, a liberal Protestant (United Church of Christ) minister: You Can't Make This Up and Spiritual But Not Religious? Stop Boring Me. Surprisingly, the second one is at the Huffington Post. It's just a few paragraphs; the first is more substantial. She's amusing in places:…
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The obsessive hatred of many on the left for Sarah Palin is sick. I'm referring to a soon-to-be-published book of gossip, of which many salacious details have already been revealed. You've probably heard of it. If not, you can easily find out. It gives me a tiny bit of satisfaction not to identify it or…
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