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OU MAY Not potty on trips of 90 mins or less. New Restrictions Are Imposed on Air Passengers: and now the restrictions are random. Another reason to take the train? Or more proof the terrorists have won? Or just proof that “security” is now the only value the gov’t feels inclined to protect? Kiss your [...]

Fourth in the 2009 series on the Great O Antiphons. The complete text of the Antiphons is here, and a meta-post listing all the meditations is here.  Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel, qui aperis, et nemo claudit, claudis, et nemo aperuit: veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris, et umbra mortis. [...]

OMANS In the Dominican Republic are afraid of the competition. I love the claim of “make yer own church” being a danger.

IVEN The Church Fathers’ paralleling of Eros with Agape (as per our readings in Clement), this doesn’t bother the literalist in me.

ITHOUT A TV, I’m relying on NPR, Teh Innertubes, and Bloggers for news from Denver and wherever it is that the Republicans are meeting later. (John and I share a Birthday, btw. Different years though.) For this talk about freedom, hope, liberty, advance… blah blah blah… Innocent people are still being stopped at airports across [...]

CBC reported this afternoon that the entire phone call accusing the polygamists in Texas may have been a hoax. Evidently there is a woman in jail in Colorado for giving false information to authorities. But the Judge is still keeping the sect’s children behind bars. You know. For genetic testing. Freedom of Religion in the [...]