Isaiah 30:18-22 Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. Truly, O people in Zion, inhabitants of Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you. Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity... Read more
I am old, I am old, I shall wear my trousers rolled. Read more
Do we really have to go all the way over to Stalin or Saddam to find an example of someone whose behavior is reassuringly worse than our own? How are we supposed to maintain a shred of pride in our nation or in ourselves as a people when the best we can say for ourselves is that we're Not As Bad As the worst people we can think of? Read more
My point here is not to say, "Don't worry, they don't know what they're doing," but rather to suggest that because they may not know what they're doing, we might want to worry differently. A secretive, unaccountable, omnicompetent agency poses one kind of threat to civil liberties. A secretive, unaccountable, semi-competent agency poses another. Read more
It's the Friday music game -- I'll show you mine, you show me yours. Moving along with the songs-with-names-in-the-title theme, we're on names starting with "N" and "O" this week, including: Nan, Nancy, Napoleon, Natalie, Nikita, Nikki, Noelle, Oliver, Olivia and Otis. Read more
The question at the heart of this discussion seems to be, "Which is absolute? The power of the state? Or the right to private property?" The wrong questions will always produce the wrong answers. Read more
Francis: "I do not like it when people speak about tough situations in an academic and not a human manner, sometimes with statistics … and that’s it. In the Church there are many people in this situation." Read more
If this is a joke, it's an incredibly elaborate joke -- a hoax perpetrated by a comic genius who finds Christopher Guest's troupe insufficiently subtle. Which is to say that I'm afraid this is not meant as a joke. Which is to say that I think it is a joke, but that JD Hall doesn't realize that. He's not Christopher Guest, he's Corky St. Clair. Read more
Erick Erickson: "Liberals who defend [women working] and say it is not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology -- when you look at the natural world -- the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role." Read more
Mary Elizabeth Williams wonders if the Catholic bishops are "even trying to make sense on marriage equality;" the Woz says either tax corporations on income, like we do people, or tax people on profits, like we do corporations; Karl Smith calls for a helicopter drop; Lynne Stuart Parramore on the epidemic of wage theft -- $19 billion a year; and Amy Davidson on Amanda Berry and Charles Ramsey. Read more
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