Thursday, March 28, 2024

Blogging note …

 I had much to do today of a personal matter. Blogging will resume tomorrow.

Strange story …

 … Blennerhassett Island – staging ground for high treason.

Celebration …

 … Belated recognition of March 27th anniversary.

Listen in …

… Paul Davis On Crime: Discussing Crime On Dawn Stensland's Philadelphia Talk Radio WPHT 1210 Program.

Just so you know …

… Paul Davis On Crime: My Crime Beat Column: Take Steps To Avoid The Violent Crime Of Carjacking.

Remembering …

 … The death of a great American.

Take a look …

 Top Shots: Compelling Images From Our Region. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

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 …

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
— Nelson Algren, orn on this date in 1909

A word for today …

… Prescind - Word Daily.

Let us pray …

 … with the Little Flower —  Daily Scripture & Reflections.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

RIP …

… Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died | CNN Politics.

Not an ordinary gardener …

 … Well, this one certainly surprised me!

The man who gave us Middle Earth …

… The Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog: Review of Tolkien's Faith: a spiritual biography by Holly Ordway (2023).  (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Books and war …

 … The Pulp of Culture: On Andrew Pettegree’s “The Book at War”. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Patience and persistence …

 … “But God made no answer…”

The enkindled spring …

 …  “My spirit is tossed about like a shadow…”

Something to think on …

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts
— Budd Schulberg, born on this date in 1914

An odd job …

… Death and typos: my six strange years screening online obituary comments | Life and style | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Let us pray …

 … withe the Little Flower — Daily Scripture & Reflections.

A word for today …

… Inosculate - Word Daily.

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

Fascinating …

 … MY LONG STRANGE TRIP TO ARISTOPHANES’ GERYTADES. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Between the March and April line…

 … The saddest noise, the sweetest noise…

Not what you may have thought …

The chilling truth about Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, America’s favourite poem.

(Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Wearing white …

 … About the woodlands I will go.

Three poets born on this date …

 …  Dorothy Porter.

…  A. E. Housman.

Robert Frost.

(Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

Just so you know …

 (18) A Comparison of the Roles of Doubt in Philosophy and in Religion.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes …

 …  Words, words, words. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

On the Bard’s four-hundred-year legacy.

Something to think on …

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
— Joseph Campbell, born on this date in 1904

A word for today …

… Chinook - Word Daily.

Let us pray …

 … with the Little Flower — Daily Scripture & Reflections.

Monday, March 25, 2024

Hear, hear …

… Steven Spielberg Decries Anti-Semitism & "History Repeating" At Shoah Ceremony.

The new anti-semitism is something we should all deplore.

Sad — but so true …

Why our institutions keep going woke and going broke.

A dubious figure …

 … Peace, Drugs, Earth Day, And Murder — A Look Back At Philadelphia’s Ira Einhorn

Spring …

 … “We have short time to stay…”

Abbess of Andalusia …

 … “I was just there to assist the chicken…”

Blogging note …

 I have many things to deal with today. Blogging will not resume until later, possibly much later.

A word for today …

… Rupestrian | Word Genius.

Let us pray …

 … with the Little Flower — Daily Scripture & Reflections.

Something to think on …

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.
— Flannery O’Connor, born on this date in 1925

Sunday, March 24, 2024

This is nuts …

… No 'human era' in Earth's geological history, scientists say.

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.

Demand it courageously …

 … Make some room for yourself, human animal.

Washed in His blood …

 … “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!”

Something to think about …

 (18) Attack and Defense - by Glenn Harlan Reynolds.

Listen in …

 … Episode 581 – Edith Hall

Pushback …

… Wendell Berry: What Paul Krugman Gets Wrong About Rural America. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.(

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 …

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
— Malcolm Muggeridge, born on this date in 1904

Putting things straight …

… Like Esther, I Stand for Jewish Peoplehood.

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.

Another word …

… Nascent - Word Daily.

A word for today …

… Quiddity | Word Genius

Let us pray …

 … with the Little Flower —  Daily Scripture & Reflections.

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Take a look at these

… Photographer Captures Christ The Redeemer Holding The Moon | PetaPixel.

Hush…

 … God is going to sleep

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.”

RIP …

 … Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died.

Recommended Reading …

 … New book about Mark Twain in Buffalo and western NY.

A look at some philosophex.…

… The Lamp Magazine | Chipping Away. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Poetry and painting …

… Zealotry of Guerin: Poetry and Fiction by Christopher Guerin: Horizon, Zenith and Atmosphere (Paul Klee), Sonnet #622.

Something to think on …

When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.
—Dane Rudhyar, born on this date in 1895

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 word for today …

… Simpatico - Word Daily.

Let us pray …

 … with the Little Flower — Daily Scripture & Reflections.

A poem …

Looking

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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

Time for some chuckles …

… Paul Davis On Crime: A Little Humor: The Babylon Bee's Top 6 Health Benefits Of Cigar Smoking.

Lord, have mercy on us …

 … Adieu, farewell, earth’s bliss.

Something to think on …

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.
— Louis L’Amour, born on this date in 1908

Imagine that …

… Complaint Alleges University of Wisconsin DEI Czar, Husband of Harvard's DEI Chief, Has Decades-Long History of Research Misconduct.

Hmm …

KEN BRUEN, THE DARK SOUL OF IRISH CRIME FICTION. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

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.

Guess we should all see it …

 … Dune: Part Two depicts a world of ceaseless struggle – like our own. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

A word for today …

Falstaffian | Word Genius..

Let us pray …

 … with the Little Flower — Daily Scripture & Reflections.

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.

Our town …

… and many others these days: Paul Davis On Crime: South Philly's Broad & Snyder Drug Addicts, Aggressive Homeless and Assorted Shady Characters

Sweet spring …

 … Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

Take a look at these …

… The Macro Detail of Butterfly Wings | Moss and Fog. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

In case you wondered …

… Kim Stafford: How to make money | Vox Populi. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

Something to think on …

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
— Jean Paul, born on this date in 1763

Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America (Ep. 207) | Conversations with Tyler

… Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America (Ep. 207) | . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Conversation with Tyler Cowen.

A word for today …

… Sprezzatura | Word Genius..

Let us pray …

 … with the Little Flower — Daily Scripture & Reflections.

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Walking and talking …

… Nigeness: 'Listening respectfully to the talk talk talk'. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Spring …

 … When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush

In case you wondered …

 … A Retrospective on “Origin Uncertain.”  (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Something to think on …

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — they are the pillars of society.
— Henrik Ibsen, born on this date in 1828

Comparison and contrast …

 … MACDONALD VERSUS MACDONALD: A CRIME FICTION DEBATE. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

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A word dor today …

… Icarian | Word Genius.

Let us pray …

 … the Little Flower — Daily Scripture & Reflections.

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Real philosophy at work …

… (18) Ayn Rand's Misunderstanding of Kant.

Just so you know …

 Paul Davis On Crime: A Little Humor: How To Speak Philadelphian.

Have I not reason to lament?

 … Upon hearing a thousand blended notes.

Wonderful …

… Poem of the week: To Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor | Poetry | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
 
I love Browning — it doesn’t get better than “My Last Duchess.” But I love Landor, too. Especially this.

Renewal …

 … Here in the Time Between

When a team moves …

… Straight Outta Boston - BallNine..

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

Very interesting indeed …

… IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 4): And Then There's Quantum Biology - HillFaith.

True …

… Four years on, COVID damage remains while Fauci & Co. pay no price.

RIP …

… Sybil Steinberg Obituary (1933 - 2024) - Westport, CT - Daily Hampshire Gazette. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

A word for today …

… Afflatus | Word Genius.

Let us pray …

 … with the little flower —  Daily Scripture & Reflections.