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I figure most people who read this blog probably also read Open Book, but for those who don’t: Amy has a great post on these two saints today, including some typically rich words from the Pope.
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Pluto is officially not a planet. The neighborhood just won’t be the same. In related news, somebody at The Atlantic did recognize the headline potential in the matter (absence of which I was lamenting a week or so ago): their review of upcoming events in a recent issue noted Pluto Targeted for Elimination.
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Pluto was only declared a planet in 1930, apparently with some opposition. So what’s a conservative to do–deplore its expulsion as a needless upset of tradition, or applaud it as the restoration of a traditional order upset by reckless innovation? Deep matters…. (In case you’re wondering, I had notions, when I was about sixteen, of…
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A lengthy and unpleasant exchange on the Caelum et Terra blog on these topics left me feeling that they had been rather more obscured than revealed. No sane Catholic can argue that warfare is anything but a terrible calamity and at very best a very difficult thing to justify, but a position of practical pacifism…
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(yes, I’m skipping a week, having gotten too far behind) Love: Forever Changes In Memoriam: Arthur Lee (1945-2006) & Bryan MacLean (1946-1998) I had a friend in college who was very taken with the first two albums by this mid-‘60s Los Angeles band. When Forever Changes came out, he came over to my apartment with…
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Patty Griffin: 1000 Kisses Although I can’t claim to have heard all the competition, I don’t think I’m going out on a limb when I say that Patty Griffin has one of the very best voices in pop music. She has prodigous strength and range and tone and control, with a lower register bound to…
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Why didn't somebody use "Pluto Under Attack" for the headline of this article? That would've been one to remember. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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The Atlantic has this year-old appraisal of Israel's long-term prospects by Benjamin Schwartz. Summary: not good. I don't have any particular insight into whether the just-signed cease-fire is a good or bad deal, but unless it has some really strong and enforceable measures that will prevent Hezbollah from simply rebuilding and reloading, we will be…
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(I’m really behind on posting these—hope to catch up over the next four or five days.) Ishq: Orchid Ambient music is a guilty pleasure for me. I really can’t approve of the idea of music that isn’t meant to be listened to attentively, music that is, in Brian Eno’s words, “as ignorable as it is…
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I think Amy Welborn is spot on about the widespread sense among faithful Catholics that recent Vatican (including papal) statements on the situation in Lebanon (and other hot spots involving Islam) seem, well, not all that useful. It is decidely painful for me to say such a thing about this pope, for whom I have…
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