Current Affairs
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I hate Daylight Savings Time, and I’m not the only one. Not so much the thing itself, but the switchover to it in the spring. I deeply resent being forced to get up an hour earlier.
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Heh. No White House tours for us, no golf for you, Mr. President. I don't suppose the congressman's amendment would actually have any effect, but it's an appropriate response to a strikingly petty gesture. The sequestration-wolf-crying doesn't seem to have worked for Obama, with even some media liberals saying he overdid it and could have avoided…
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Well, this is a shock. My immediate reaction is somewhat selfish. It happens that just yesterday I heard our Ordinariate pastor's report on the symposium on the Ordinariate which took place in Houston on the first weekend of February. The symposium was addressed by no less than the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine…
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I've read two of Wendell Berry's novels, The Memory of Old Jack and Hannah Coulter, and consider the first one very good and the second very very good, maybe to be ranked with the best novels of our time. I've read a fair number of his essays on cultural and political topics and think very highly…
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I've had a very pleasant three-day weekend (thanks to the Martin Luther King holiday). And I've made an effort to pay little attention to the inauguration, but of course whenever I look at the headlines online I'm reminded. And I did, out of curiosity, read Obama's address. Fine words, some of them. And mostly either…
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The law seems to have caught up with former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Good. Ordinarily this is not something I would write about here, but the success of the effort to blame then-President Bush for everything that went wrong after (and maybe before) Hurricane Katrina was one of the most egregious recent examples of the…
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Or at least your email is. I don't think this is exactly a break in my promise not to post about politics till after the New Year, because it's really beyond politics in the usual sense: an NSA whistleblower says everyone in the U.S. is under virtual surveillance. This is a Russian web site, and I…
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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 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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