November 2012
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Weekend Music (I know, it's already Saturday afternoon here, Saturday night in Europe, and sometime Sunday in Australia and New Zealand.) This is by very far not my favorite Sinatra song, but I heard it more or less accidentally, on XM radio in a rented car, a couple of days ago, and the lyric had…
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In a comment on the previous post, Marianne quotes an Atlantic article which compares the stimulus and reward pattern of using a computer to playing a slot machine. This is a topic of great interest to me, since I spend all day at a computer and have done for many years, and I really see that effect in…
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The spiritual poverty of many of our contemporaries, who no longer perceive the absence of God in their lives as a form of deprivation, poses a challenge to all Christians. –Benedict XVI I know so many people of whom this is true. It's very hard to know what to say to them. You're telling a…
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I just want to make sure everyone realizes how admirable it is that I'm keeping my promise not to talk about politics, when such topics as CENSORED and CENSORED are begging for comment.
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A Litany of Election Complaints I have to do this, but when I'm done I plan to abstain from talking about politics at least until the turn of the year. I'm also going to limit, if I can, the amount of time I spend reading political news and commentary. And if I can't limit it,…
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I've been carrying around for a week or two now a couple of pages from Magnificat bearing this quotation, meaning to post it but either forgetting it when I had the opportunity, or remembering it when I didn't. But it seems appropriate for the first post-election Sunday, when some of us are perhaps a bit more…
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Weekend Music I believe it was Monday night that I was listening to a Velvet Underground album, their third and self-titled one, and thinking I had noticed something pretty significant about it, and that I might do a post about it as the weekend music post. But dang: who wants to listen to the Velvet…
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The suddenly much earlier arrival of darkness in the evenings after the Daylight Savings Time change in fall is always slightly disturbing.
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I was sitting here at my desk eating lunch and thinking of posting another few comments about the election, but then I read this post by Janet, and it's way better than anything I would have said, so go read it.
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The fort is betrayed even of them that should have defended it. And therefore seeing the matter is thus begun, and so faintly resisted on our parts, I fear that we be not the men that shall see the end of the misery. –St. John Fisher, replying to the bishops who urged him to submit…
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