I had much to do today of a personal matter. Blogging will resume tomorrow.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Hometown …
… Superior Blues. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Superior, I learned as a child, was home to the world's largest grain elevator and charcoal briquet plant. It had the cleanest water, and the highest per capita number of saloons and bordellos. It was the birthplace of Morrie Arnovich, second greatest Jewish baseball player and contained the world's second largest trainyard, second only to Chicago.
Something to think on …
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Something to think on …
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Just so you know …
The basic ways the gov steals your money:
- if you earn it, income tax
- if you live somewhere, property tax
- if you spend it, sales tax
- if you save it, inflation tax
- if you invest it, capital gains tax
- if you start a business, licenses
- if you own a good business, profit tax
- if you give it away, gift tax
- if you die, inheritance tax
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes …
… Words, words, words. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
On the Bard’s four-hundred-year legacy.
Something to think on …
Monday, March 25, 2024
Hear, hear …
Blogging note …
I have many things to deal with today. Blogging will not resume until later, possibly much later.
Something to think on …
Sunday, March 24, 2024
This is nuts …
We humans have obviously been affecting the Earth since our emergence here — hunting, farming, trade, roads, houses, towns, etc. Maybe these people should sit dow and read H. G. Wells’s An Outline of. History. Or maybe Toynbee.
Pushback …
A person who has no idea of goodness can have no good ideas. If one cannot imagine dealing with rural rage except by fighting it, one is already too late.
Something to think on …
Putting things straight …
I sat through several hours of these public comments and endured many distortions and outright lies read into the public record, including statements denying that Hamas attackers engaged in sexual violence against Israeli women (there were cheers in the overflow room when that happened). And although many pro-Palestinian speakers invoked the number of Palestinians killed and the other deeply painful results of this war, none could bring themselves to concede that it was Hamas who broke the existing cease-fire on October 7, or that Israelis have a right to live in peace.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Theology with a beat [sort of) …
… Karl Rahner’s theology of The Beatles.
Always concerned about pastoral matters, Rahner abstained from opining about the Beatles or their recordings. Indeed, he generally recused himself from the role of critic, instead expressing interest in the phenomenon of Beatlemania. Witnessing the Beatles’ fervent audience, Rahner observed, is “important for the preacher if he wants to know what today’s people are ‘actually’ like.”
Something to think on …
Bear in mind …
… You’re Not Jesus. (Hat tip, Dave Lull..)
Sorry, folks, but God’s not saying you must condescend to eat with sinners. No: you are the sinner. He condescends to eat with you.
A poem …
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The ancients did not see things as we do.
They thought reason finite. Dreams, omens,
Prophecy: Therein lay truth’s treasure chest
Friday, March 22, 2024
Something to think on …
Hmm …
Set in the immediate aftermath of the worst of the pandemic, Galway Confidential explores in detail (as do the other books in the series) the unique complexity of Irish society, with its deeply infused blend of the Church, a roller-coaster economy and a propensity for violence, particularly involving knives…and in these stories, those knives aren’t just sharp, they’re serrated, too.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Talk about misinformation …
… Google Invents a New Way to Stick It to Trump.
What concerns me he is the corruption of language. I pretty much don’t give a damn about politics, which for many these days has become a religion. I already have one of those.
Something to think on …
Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America (Ep. 207) | Conversations with Tyler
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Something to think on …
Comparison and contrast …
… MACDONALD VERSUS MACDONALD: A CRIME FICTION DEBATE. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Wonderful …
Just so you know …
… What Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore Learned From Each Other. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Rachel Cohen on an Epistolary Friendship Between Two Giants of American Poetry