Pretty Little Girl Near Blue Tarp all photos by Ed Six weeks after the horrific earthquake that has shaken Haiti to its knees, our friend Missionary Ed writes: 12:17 AM Just had a hefty, albeit short, tremor. Woke everybody downstairs up. I never knew this about earthquakes. I knew you could have a couple of aftershocks in the first day or so, but not the well over 100 aftershocks that we are still having 6 weeks later… Those people in... Read more
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Rick at Brutally Honest wonders if some member of the press might ask Obama to define what he means by socialism, given Obama’s statement yesterday: “Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, I am an ardent believer in the free market,” Obama said in prepared remarks. . . . “Getting this balance right has less to do with big government or small government than it does smart government. It’s not about being anti-business or pro-government; it’s about being... Read more
For reasons I can’t even explain, this video made me sad. I mean, as I agree, it’s impressive. But it makes me sad, too. I’m not sure why. Perhaps because it is becoming so easy to fake “reality,” anymore. Read more
First, I read this. Then I got an email from Amba, showing me this, which is speaking to me in many ways. Then I popped into Twitter to read a little during lunch and saw this. Followed the link to this. What a lot to think and pray about! Read more
Maybe it’s because this winter feels like it is never going to end, but I am already itching to get my hands into a little dirt, and so this great idea from the Summit Dominican Nuns is singing to me! Write the sisters: If you are a gardener you know how dirty, dry and cut your hands can get even if you are wearing gloves! And admit it, don’t you often prefer sinking your hands into the earth during planting... Read more
A study in Chicago comes to an interesting conclusion: American foreign policy is handicapped by a narrow, ill-informed and “uncompromising Western secularism” that feeds religious extremism, threatens traditional cultures and fails to encourage religious groups that promote peace and human rights, according to a two-year study by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. The council’s 32-member task force, which included former government officials and scholars representing all major faiths, delivered its report to the White House on Tuesday. The report... Read more
A left-center friend defended to me the Obama/Congress idea of ramming healthcare through. “You didn’t mind it when Bush did it,” he said. Actually, he can’t know that (and I do recall having some hesitations about how rancorous it was all becoming) but more to the point -and the conversation broke off, so I could not say it to him- if something is reprehensible when a president/congress you hate does it, isn’t it still reprehensible when a president/congress you don’t... Read more
This is both interesting and sad: Over at dotCommonweal, Robert Imbelli had a brief post on the buzz-producing “Yes” from Scott Brown on yesterday’s jobs bill. While many analysts have spent the last little while dissecting the vote itself, Imbelli noticed a much quieter (yet much more depressing) note in the story: Three hours before the jobs-bill vote, the Senate chamber opened with its 117-year tradition of reading Washington’s Farewell Address on his birthday. The current lawmakers evidently didn’t think... Read more
From Insty, of course. I love this. Stuck in an airport and making the best of it with some good old-fashioned “horsing around.” Something we don’t do enough of. We don’t even say “horsing around” enough. The comments at boingboing are as much fun as the video, and this one rang especially true and poignant for me; it is almost Chestertonian, in a way: [This girl is] Apparently one of the few people who remembers that the fundamental purpose of... Read more
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