March 2020
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Today's Gospel reading is the story of Lazarus. The daily meditation in Magnificat is a couple of paragraphs from Romano Guardini's The Lord in which he comments on this incident. This in particular struck me: Jesus stands alone with all that he is, the only one intrinsically alive among so many mortals…. [my emphasis] You could say…
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Here's something for you to do at home if or when you are sick of reading, listening to music, and watching movies and TV. (That's meant as a joke. Personally I don't think I could ever get entirely sick of doing those things; each of them separately, maybe, if I couldn't switch to one of…
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(I think this is relevant to all Christians, not only Catholics but at least those whose communions have a liturgy, and worth the attention of those who don't. Or for that matter anyone who cares about the Western musical and spiritual tradition.) Since you can't go to Mass today, probably, allow me to suggest that…
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A collection of photos at The Atlantic.
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…is this article at a health and science site called Stat: A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data The site seems sane and credible, and most of the stories about COVID-19 are fairly typical; that is, it's not some dodgy sensationalist site. And the…
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Several years ago (more than several, actually) I had the notion of watching the old-time Westerns that are considered classics. I went through several of them–The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and maybe a couple of others. I was somewhat disappointed, especially as I loved Western stuff when I was a kid, and…
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As you may have seen, people have been having a lot of fun with this: “Mike Bloomberg spent enough on his campaign to give every American $1 million.” @BWilliams on @11thHour @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/iBsWvqEIHf — Bad Econ Takes (@BadEconTakes) March 6, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The actual number of dollars per citizen, of course is not 1,000,000, but…
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Or, Right-Wing Virtue Signaling Among other elections happening today is the one for congress from my district. It's a fairly close race so I've been getting a fair amount of advertising in the mail. Alabama is essentially a one-party–Republican–state now, so they're all Republicans. Their advertising all contains the following important facts about the candidate:…
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