Oops! Somehow I overlooked these three when I posted this morning. Continue reading “More poetry (omitted inadvertently)”
Month: July 2010
Periodic poetry links (formerly Haikuly yours)
As I grow older, I increasingly appreciate poetry. I’m a rank amateur, no doubt, having been mostly indifferent and tone-deaf when people were trying to teach me about poetry. Now I don’t even qualify as an autodidact, because I don’t study it. I just read it. Some of it I like well enough to pass along. Continue reading “Periodic poetry links (formerly Haikuly yours)”
Blogging hiatus
Speaking of my blogging hiatus (here and here), my study for “the big exam” is going well and my Friday evening is “lazy” because I finished my major “to dos” this week.
Finishing the “to dos” is a notable accomplishment for me. Continue reading “Blogging hiatus”
On the mountain of truisms, a city of buzz-words
I rouse myself from my blog hiatus, this lazy Friday evening, largely because a newly-discovered blog has a stunningly blunt and provocative entry that I wanted to circulate more enduringly than a call-out at Facebook.
The thesis is this:
A generation that not only can’t keep its pants on but believes it would be a gross injustice to encourage anyone to do so will not be the generation to stop global warming, end American imperialism and build strong local economies. A generation of prodigious sexual wastefulness is a generation unable to stop any other sort of wastefulness. The division in perspective between one’s body, one’s “will-to-pleasure”, and the evils of the outside world is almost incomprehensible. Restraint is for corporations and armies; anarchy is for American Youth. Continue reading “On the mountain of truisms, a city of buzz-words”
Plus ça change …*
Published in The Tablet (English, I think), Jan. 3, 1914, this reflection provocatively notes that all the bad things socialists are said to favor have been visited upon us by non-socialists. Continue reading “Plus ça change …*”
“I have a conspiracy theory.”
I visited someone in a nursing home this evening. She absent-mindedly left Glenn Beck on TV — my first actual exposure to the guy.
It was as bad as I feared. Continue reading ““I have a conspiracy theory.””
Bill O’Reilly is a big fat fake
Bill O’Reilly is a big fat fake, to use terms Senator Al Franken (D, The-Formerly-Serious-State-That-Gave-Us-Governor-Jesse-Ventura-,Too) might like. Continue reading “Bill O’Reilly is a big fat fake”
Vocations – true and fancied
“Every time I move to a new place, I’m asked by the locals, “How do you like living here?” I’m never quite sure how to answer that question, and for the longest time I didn’t know why. And then one day it dawned on me, I couldn’t answer the question because I couldn’t figure out what the difference was between one place and the next.” Continue reading “Vocations – true and fancied”
The Holy Spirit made me do it
Fr. Siarhei Hardum greets the Presbyterians, and asks whether the Holy Spirit that motivates some Protestants to create a new pseudo-Christian paganism is the same Holy Spirit that tells the Orthodox to contend for “the faith once delivered to the saints”?
Bold words.
HT Lindsey Nelson.
If not for procreation, then why marriage at all?
Intentions to cut back on blogging notwithstanding, I have some sincere questions for proponents of same-sex marriage. Continue reading “If not for procreation, then why marriage at all?”
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 