November 2013
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Not to accept everything, but to understand everything; not to approve of everything, but to forgive everything; not to adopt everything, but to search for the grain of truth that is contained in everything. To reject no idea and no good intention, however awkward or feeble. –Elisabeth Leseur (via Magnificat)
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Marcus L. Urann, the inventor of canned jellied cranberry sauce. I love this stuff. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. The story is actually pretty interesting from the socio-economic as well as the gustatory perspective. I didn't know that Ocean Spray is and has been from the start a growers' cooperative.
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So, Pope Francis has published an "apostolic exhortation," and I see indications that the Catholic blogosphere is lighting up with comments about it. And I'm tempted to skim the thing as quickly as possible and deliver some quick comments of my own. But I'm going to resist that impulse. This thing is about 50,000 words…
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This appeared one day last week in Dear Abby: DEAR ABBY: I read the obituaries in our local newspaper every day to see if someone I know has died. But when I don't see any familiar name, I feel let down and disappointed. Is that weird? — STILL ALIVE IN SAN DIEGO Here's the heading…
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Weekend Music I saw these guys in concert Tuesday night. Most enjoyable. This was their encore. The most striking thing they did–not the best, but the most unusual and attention-getting–was a piece in which they did things to their guitars that made them sound like a gamelan orchestra. Yes, really. Mostly it seemed to…
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Dick Cheney's daughters are feuding because one of them is a lesbian who has a "wife," and the other believes marriage requires two people of opposite sexes. The former says the latter is on the wrong side of history. It's a charge one hears pretty frequently. I can imagine few things less likely to make…
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Read the excerpt from the Dear Abby piece at the top of the page. (Click to enlarge if you can't make it out.)
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The more I think about the conclusion of that "Eleven Nations" piece (see previous post), the more it bothers me. What makes it so troubling is that it envisions no other outcome to the national conflict than having one side crush the other. This reveals something about the thinking of contemporary liberals. I doubt you…
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Weekend Music That's so good–let's have another from the same album, Shine, this one with Emmylou Harris.
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This has been getting some attention for several days now: a sort of cultural map of the U.S. based on the varying cultures of origin of current inhabitants. The first thing I noticed is that it conforms to what I was saying in a discussion with Art Deco a few weeks ago about the culture…
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