July 2013
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Destroy an office printer, I mean. Maybe you've seen this before, but I'm sure you'll enjoy it anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if I've posted it before. The first two scenes here are from earlier in the movie, the rest near the end. (Office Space, and it's very funny.) Warning: a bit of rough language, and…
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So the Zimmerman trial is over, although the whole sorry affair goes on. Astonishingly, appallingly, the Justice Department has opened a tip line for people who would like to denounce George Zimmerman as a racist. Let's stop for a moment and reflect on what we owe to the race-baiters inside and outside the media who…
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In case you missed it in the comments on the previous post, here, courtesy of Rob G, is David Bentley Hart's extremely sharp, in every sense of the word, commentary on a book in which Daniel Dennett explains the phenomenon of religion to us, and advises us as to how to rid civilization of it.…
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Found this in an old SNJ (I will be sorting through them for a while) and rather liked it (Dennett, if you don't recognize the name, is one of the aggressive atheists, author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea). I had just read a piece in which he predicted that religion would soon wither away, now that…
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Weekend Music I ran across this while looking for more of his solo stuff on YouTube: interesting solo take on the Fairport Convention song done so memorably by Sandy Denny. Seems to be from the same concert as the solo version of last week's "Down Where the Drunkards Roll."
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I don't think I would have read this book had not our after-Mass study group chosen it. I was aware of it, of course: the conversion of former Presbyterians Scott and Kimberly Hahn had been well-publicized, and Scott's name was already known as a Catholic scholar/controversialist before this book appeared. (Some of you may share…
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I had a brief debate with a friend on Facebook the other day about the meaning of the term "pro-life." In brief, he objected to its being only a synonym for "anti-abortion," and wanted it to have a broader meaning, taking in all the things one might believe or do to support the intrinsic value…
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People whose houses are built on solid rock don’t have to go around foaming at the mouth, arguing, shouting, ridiculing their adversaries. –Heather King
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Update: re-reading this, I think I gave away a bit too much of the plot, because I was trying to get to that main point mentioned toward the end. So consider this a somewhat spoiler-ish review. Also, in faintly praising it, I don't think I did justice to its purely dramatic appeal, which is definitely…
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Weekend Music This week I'm going to avail myself of Neoneocon's work in gathering three versions of this great Richard Thompson song: the original Richard and Linda recording, one by Loudon and Rufus Wainwright, and one by RT with a bit of help from Loudon Wainwright and, I think but am not sure, Martha Wainwright.…
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