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Sunday Night Journal —February 6, 2011 A Few Seconds of Panic, by Stefan Fatsis. Football season is over, so it’s a bit late for me to be mentioning this book, but maybe anyone who’s interested will be as dilatory as I am and won’t get around to reading it till late next summer. It’s one…
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Weekend Music A conversation on Facebook a few days ago reminded me of the sole and self-titled album by former King Crimson members Ian Macdonald and Michael Giles, released in 1970. I am one of the few people who bought it, even though I had not been a King Crimson fan. Now I can’t remember…
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For instance, Encyclical Man, who “has a quote at the ready that will clearly establish that anyone who does not share his opinion on the matter is a heretic.” I’m sure there are other species awaiting identification but I’m too distracted to think of any: I hope that doesn’t make me “Could Do Better But…
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Sign of the times, or just a sign of me? I'm going to have to put in several hours of work this weekend–I mean job-work, what I get paid to do, not house or yard work or writing. The task is a software upgrade for which I have to shut down a system which is…
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I'm basically in favor of allowing married men to become priests–we have at least one in my diocese, and he's excellent. But I think those who see it as a magical cure-all for various problems in the Church are very mistaken. It would bring its own set of problems, as of course Protestants, and I…
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Big brains on the Today show grapple with the question, 1994: http://www.youtube.com/e/9nTPX4JW_Ts (Hat tip to Karen)
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Weekend Music One of the master’s less well-known but most engaging songs. I don’t know whether he invented the word “coolerator” or not, but it’s a great word. http://www.youtube.com/e/uuM2FTq5f1o I find myself hoping that Pierre and the mademoiselle are still alive and still married somewhere in east Louisiana, and that they still get up…
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I'd never heard the term "burrito ministry" before Janet sent me this story.
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Dr. Ed Dyas, RIP Almost twenty years ago, in late 1991, I developed severe back problems that eventually made it hard for me to stand up for more than a few minutes at a time, and resulted in my having surgery on Mardi Gras of 1992. The surgeon was Dr. Ed Dyas. As far as…
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I just decided not to watch the Super Bowl. Well, at least not the beginning. Or the half-time show.
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