Sunday Night Journal
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Lost Weekend This being the second Sunday of the month, I had planned to continue my not-very-well-established second-Sunday routine of writing on the subject of music. My subject was to have been the music, or rather say the work, or rather say the post-1982 work, of Tom Waits. I even had in mind the title…
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Clock and Dragon The Catholic world is a bit off balance, with Easter and therefore Ash Wednesday coming so early this year. Backing up from there, Epiphany was hardly over before the Mardi Gras festivities started. Last weekend my wife and I attended our first-ever Mardi Gras ball, at the kind invitation of the parents…
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Folly Chasing Death One last note on the general lack of repentance on the part of the cultural revolutionaries of the late ‘60s, after which I plan to leave the subject alone for a while: I haven’t yet mentioned the evangelization for drug use that was as prominent in its time as the sexual revolution.…
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Change, Liberal and Conservative As if to continue and confirm the premise of my comments last week on the terrible consequences of the sexual revolution, I came across this article, The Frivolity of Evil, by Theodore Dalrymple, a name which will be recognized by anyone who reads the conservative press but is perhaps not much…
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The Confidence of Fools A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil; but the fool rageth, and is confident. —Proverbs 14:16 Writing last week about the persistent sympathy for Communism expressed, by people who ought to know better, for the political program of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” I found myself thinking of a column I wrote…
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Imagine No Delusions NOTE: EXPLICIT CONSERVATIVE CONTENT I include this warning for the sake of certain friends and relatives unhappy with some of my conservative views. Pop music fans may have noticed a recent bit of fanfare about Rolling Stone’s list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, as determined by a poll of critics.…
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Sunday Night Journal — January 9, 2005 NOTE: EXPLICIT CONSERVATIVE CONTENT — I include this warning for the sake of certain friends and relatives unhappy with some of my conservative views. Pop music fans may have noticed a recent bit of fanfare about Rolling Stone’s list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, as determined…
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Announcing: A Caelum et Terra Blog I’ve spent the last couple of days making the decision about, and doing the initial setup for, a blog continuing the dialogue carried on in the magazine Caelum et Terra. (see link to the left for further info, or go straight to the blog). This site is not going…
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Just Your Luck My job as director of administrative systems at a small college is very much a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none affair that involves a lot of direct support of the people who use the administrative information system. Over the years I think almost every one of them has asserted confidently that he or she has been…
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A Christmas Meditation I spent the time I would normally have spent writing a journal entry locating and re-typing this Christmas piece which I wrote many years ago for the National Catholic Register. But a note in passing: two recent news stories related to some of the themes I touch upon in that piece, and…
Light On Dark Water 