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LOITERING OR TRESPASSING FORBIDDEN Ok, but which one?
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Checking the headlines this morning, I see that the loss of life from yesterday's tornadoes has been far greater than I thought last night. Far greater: I can't recall anything even approaching this in the past. I lived in Tuscaloosa, where most of the deaths seem to have taken place, for over 10 years (that's where…
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Janet sent me this a couple of days ago and I meant to post it earlier. Seems like there's some sort of moral in it but I'm not sure what it is, other than the obvious one about not expecting computers to have common sense.
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In case you've heard about the tornadoes in Alabama and are wondering: they're nowhere near me–they're 200 miles/320km or more away.
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When I started seeing headlines about this a few weeks ago, I thought we would all have a good laugh and then the apparition would fade away. But it hasn't, and I'm beginning to be worried.
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…and see if it doesn't make you feel like crying out in gratitude that you live in such a beautiful world. I recommend making it full-screen (click on the four outward-pointing arrows). There is background music but you might prefer to watch in silence. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=22439234&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00adef&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0 The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
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From Janet: David Bentley Hart's comment on the new Atlas Shrugged movie. I've seen several other reviews, and they were all pretty negative. Even the one by someone who's not hostile to Rand was at best lukewarm. From Rob G: Bill Kaufman on the return of black novelist Ernest K. Gaines to his Louisiana roots. I'd…
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Everybody's doing it! (heh)
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I'm breaking my no-non-work-related-Internet rule long enough to post this, before I have a chance to forget it: There is no child of God on this earth from whom you have nothing to learn. (from the homily at the noon Mass I just returned from)
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Saving the world does not mean making it happy; it means showing the world the meaning of its suffering and giving it a joy that ‘nothing can take away.’ … Christ does not provide his followers with a set of wings to flee into heaven, but with a weight to drag them into the deepest…
Light On Dark Water 