Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in other geekery, politics on 28 July 2008 - 26 תמוז 5768
T COMES To me today, as I’m driving up from North Carolina that the current political climate could be sketched out in Tarot cards, using both the esoteric and exoteric meanings. (This is your brain, this is your brain after 13 hours driving, any questions?) This is a work in progress…
The Fool, Barack [...]
Posted in jocularity, politics on 22 July 2008 - 20 תמוז 5768
Which Dain Brammaged, megalomaniacal vigilante said it? The ever-wise Secret Pants sketch comedy troupe explore the options:
Posted in politics on 16 July 2008 - 14 תמוז 5768
Y COWORKER And I were discussing the whole off-shore drilling question. He insisted that McCain’s plan would lower gas prices - which no one in either campaign actually claims. The drilling thing is a psychological ploy of politicians, but let that go for a minute.
What I countered with was the following and, [...]
Posted in politics on 8 July 2008 - 6 תמוז 5768
iving here, in Yankee Land, there are times when I want to say, “Stick it up your ass, Yankee.”
I listened to a city official speaking on NPR slander my people the other day, referring to Confederates as “losers”. Let me be clear - he didn’t say they were defeated in the War. [...]
Posted in politics, teh internets on 7 July 2008 - 5 תמוז 5768
IVE A listen to the sins of our people…
The Trail of Tears: Episode 1 and 2 are both there.
I’m feeling rather moved by it because of knowing that I would be gone: the moving of anyone “with one drop” of Indian blood… that my whole family would have been gone. It’s kinda odd, just [...]
Posted in politics on 6 July 2008 - 4 תמוז 5768
mong single-issue voters there’s always a problem of consistency. What do you do when someone who opposes your single issue is dead right on everything else? We had this problem in SF: basically, all you had to do was say such and such a candidate was Gay. And he or she would win [...]
Posted in AnarXPistos, politics on 5 July 2008 - 3 תמוז 5768
t Even the Devils Believe, Fr Chris posts his response to the following quote from Stanley Hauerwas:
I assume most of you are here because you think you are Christians, but it is not all clear to me that the Christianity that has made you Christians is Christianity. For example: How many of you [...]
Posted in politics on 30 June 2008 - 28 סיון 5768
Is taking place in parts of the Catholic blogosphere:
But I am not, nor have I ever been, an absolutist when it comes to voting. I find both positions problematic: to insist one has a duty to vote or to insist that Christians may never vote is to elevate voting to a level of importance [...]
Posted in Epicaricacy, politics on 23 June 2008 - 21 סיון 5768
NPR reports this AM on the effects of oil pricing on global policy actions (by various countries, not just the USA). While the reporter remains vaguely impartial her biases show as she hits on several important issues without discussing them: The current cost of oil is robbing the USA of pride of place [...]
Posted in AnarXPistos, politics on 22 June 2008 - 20 סיון 5768
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What would a truly Incarnational, Communitarian, Anarchist and Liturgical revival look like? What would it look like if a group of Christians, desiring only to live the teachings of Jesus, pooled their resources (a la the Early Church and the modern Urban Kibbutz Movement) and set out to totally ignore the state, in favour [...]
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
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