July 2016
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Warning: Loud
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That is, attempts to fiddle with the rules and create the possibility of picking someone else have been defeated, and Trump is definitely going to be the Republican nominee. "Looking to those colleagues, [Iowa committeeman Steve ] Scheffler admonished them to acknowledge their errors and unite around Trump." Ha. As someone or other said somewhere or…
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Vanilla does not equal plain! It's a delicious flavor. –Jay Nordlinger of National Review, in a tweet posted on the magazine's web site. (No, I am not on Twitter and don't want to be.) I love vanilla ice cream, and for that matter vanilla almost anything. A few months ago I saw these in the grocery store…
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Mija lives in a modest apartment in South Korea. She supports herself and her sullen, uncooperative grandson, Jongwook, by caring for an old, physically incapacitated man. She is the sort of person who slips unobtrusively in and out of the lives of others without making much of an impression—except for one thing. She is always…
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Possibly most people who read this blog also read these other two, but just in case: Craig Burrell describes his initial investigation of Heidegger. As part of Janet Cupo's 52 Saints series, Grumpy writes about St. Bonaventure. I have to face the fact that though I'm pretty interested in theology and philosophy, I'm never going to become…
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…I don't want to submit myself with great confidence to God's holy will, which is Love and Mercy itself. I want him to fix the problem I'm asking him to fix.
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Still another "Samson and Delilah" variant. I love Patty Griffin, but when I first heard this one I didn't like it that much. But it grew on me. I still like Ashley Cleveland's better, though. Older folks may remember that Peter, Paul, and Mary also recorded the song under the "If I Had My…
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I think this is not only a leaf but some part of the flower apparatus, as the other leaves don't have this purple stalk. The flowers are purple.
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There are many things to appreciate about Pope Francis. "Go to the margins"–yes. "The shepherd should smell like the sheep"–yes. And much more. But he also creates a great deal of confusion, and the controversy that followed his remark a week or so ago that the Church should apologize to homosexuals has brought me to a point…
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In early 1996, my husband and I had been married for a couple of months, and were visiting Canberra for his PhD study. He was working and I was more or less at leisure for a couple of weeks, though feeling unwell, since we were expecting our first child. One day, I went to the…
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