Oh, it’s so nice!: “. . .we’ve designed this next iteration of IC to take full advantage of social networking, and will soon expand it to mobile devices as well. Not only that, but over the next few weeks, we’ll be announcing several exciting new Web features, including regular mini-documentaries and interview shows. We’ve also added the wildly popular Tweetboard — a kind of micro-forum that allows you to follow our writers’ Twitter accounts… and interact with them if you... Read more
Bookworm passed this on via email and I thought it was pretty fascinating: a Harper’s piece from August of 1941, written by Dorothy Thompson, Who Goes Nazi? It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times–in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the... Read more
Via Ancient Witnesses to the Catholic Faith, The Didache: The Didache is one of the earliest written documents of the Church other than Scripture itself. It was written sometime between 90 and 110 AD. It may not have had a single author but may have been compiled from the Apostolic Teaching as a kind of early catechism and a summary of the essential moral tenets of the Faith. It’s existence demonstrates that many current teachings of the faith, often under... Read more
Git along little dawgies Over at RCP Jay Cost is asking what’s so bad about journolisters? It’s a good piece, and I urge you to read it, but here’s what I think: Journolisters discourage listening among their readers and the general public, and if people are not listening, they are not thinking, either; they’re just following the moo-path, which appears to suit the journolisters just fine, since it is the one they’re forging. When Jeremiah Wright’s America-damning, race-tainted rants were... Read more
I must be in the big leagues now! According to this post at Huffpo (basically cribbed from Media Matters) I am part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to umm…ask to see the whole Sherrod tape. Regular readers know, because I have probably said it scores of times, that I don’t watch the mud-wrestling babes on Fox News; I don’t watch any news that’s not breaking–as in real disasters, not political theater, and I’m no fan of Bill O’ Reilly or... Read more
This morning I dreamed my dog was being sick in my bedroom–she sleeps by my bed–turns out, my husband had said, “she’s throwing up, again” it and the words invaded my dreams before they entered my consciousness. I awoke to find him taking the first turn at what became a bad morning/afternoon of cleaning up after Alle, who seems to be a little more settled now, and is able to take some hydration. The vet says tomorrow, we’ll know more.... Read more
Lord, it’s hard. I’m willing, I’m willing…Barkis is willin’. But sometimes it’s so hard; this exile is hard, and I feel tired, and weak. Don’t trust Lizzie, Lord. Not today, not today. Today’s a carrying day. Read more
I’ve got troubles over here, with my dear, sweet Alle. Blogging will be light. Check back. Read more
I recently wrote elsewhere that Happy Catholic is run by a woman who seems to breathe in books and art and who has has a remarkable capacity for zeroing in on one sentence and bringing it to the fore, for the benefit of many. I stop in at Julie’s every day, even just for a peek, because I know there will be something there to help me breathe through the day. Like this bit of Flannery O’ Connor–something I’d read... Read more
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