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You'll never guess…
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Warning: scary stuff "For the love of God, Montresor…" [[[shiver]]]
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Sunday Night Journal — July 24, 2011 As almost anyone who is at all interested in the matter knows, the promulgation of Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae reaffirming the ancient Christian ban on artificial (barrier or chemical) methods of avoiding pregnancy came at the end of a decades-long struggle for their acceptance. The pope took…
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This is not a politics and current events blog, but it seems somehow indecent not to mention the events in Norway, though a conventional expression of horror is inadequate. There are no words to express the dismay one feels at the slaughter itself, and its possible or probable social repurcussions. Pray for the dead, pray…
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That's the description, by her lawyer, of a woman in a nearby town who runs a tax preparation and loan business and is pleading guilty to "a systematic scheme" to cheat the government by filing "thousands of bogus tax returns over several years." According to her plea agreement, she and some of her employees cheated…
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Thanks to Jeff Woodward for sending me this poignant story about a bottle of Jim Beam. I should arrange to leave something of this sort for my grandchildren to find. I wrote something similar back in 2005.
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Weekend Music Don't listen if you don't feel up to a tearjerker. There is no particular significance to my posting this; I just happen to have listened to the album (1000 Kisses) on my commute this week, and was again knocked over by the best songs on it, which is most of them, all but…
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For some reason I really love this picture, possibly even more in black and white. (Here's the original.)
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…at least a little, even as I think "Wow, that was really stupid." And I've never been cheated that way.
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The last space shuttle landed safely this morning, and various headlines have announced that this is the end of the shuttle era. I think it may be more than that: the end of an age of which my generation saw the beginning. The term "space age," which for a long time meant whatever is newest…
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