Current Affairs
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Sunday Night Journal — November 27, 2011 About that ballet A month or so ago I wrote about my intention to watch a George Balanchine ballet that was being broadcast on PBS. I recorded it then, and finally found time to watch it this week. I'm sorry to have to report that I didn't really…
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I've come to expect that when I hear someone say this it will be followed by something dumb and probably nasty about the Church. Nancy Pelosi delivers. Pelosi strikes me as one of the more odious politicians around, and there's a lot of competition. I don't think I've ever heard an actual devout Catholic say "I'm…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 20, 2011 Today is the feast of Christ the King. The archdiocese of Mobile has a traditional celebration of this occasion which still involves an actual public procession. I was going to say that that’s probably a rare thing in this country in these days, but I decided to look…
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It seems like a good idea: instead of rule by people who had no more qualification than that they were the offspring of the previous ruler, or someone closely connected to the previous ruler, or simply the strongest, meanest, and most cunning, we should let the country be ruled by smart people. But mere intelligence…
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So the $10 million Kardashian wedding is followed a couple of months later by a divorce. I hope this doesn't mean we are going to have to mourn America's lost innocence yet again. I read a fair amount of journalism, popping in at Google News several times throughout the day to see if there is…
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Scroll down to the review of The Great A&P on this page for a fascinating bit about the A&P grocery chain. It was a fixture of life in the U.S. for several decades, and anyone over, I suppose, 55 or so remembers when "A&P" was almost a synonym for "grocery store." Many of us even recall…
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To be called You Know What Else Makes Me Mad? To be used as an outlet for my considerable irritation at various inhabitants and phenomena of the contemporary world. Sort of a Mr. Hyde to this blog’s Dr. Jekyll. But I really don’t think it would be healthy for me. It certainly wasn’t for Dr.…
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More than sweet, really. It's profound. (By the way, if you haven't seen any video from the Occupy rallies, the odd pause-and-echo thing is supposed to be a way of addressing a crowd without amplification–speaker says a phrase, pauses, crowd repeats it, and so on. I guess her bullhorn doesn't carry far enough.) There's…
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This is encouraging. I started to say exciting, but I don't want to get too carried away. As I said in response to seeing this on Facebook (via Richard Aleman and Toby D'Anna), I've been afraid that distributism would never get beyond being the intellectual hobby of a small number of Catholics–a minority of a…
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