2015-04-15T04:22:43+00:00

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A while back I wrote: The thing is, communism works in very small enclaves, in monasteries, for example, where everyone involved is entering willingly, is voluntarily looking to be denuded, is eager to “give stuff up” in an effort to attain something quite different from worldy “stuff.” Communism does not work, though, in a large-scale national situation whereby people are expected to sublimate themselves, their instincts and their ambitions for the good of the party. Socialism does not work. There... Read more

2017-03-17T18:44:31+00:00

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I have nothing against rich people. I’m not one, myself, but sometimes I think I wouldn’t mind being a rich person. Not “super-rich,” you understand, but comfortable enough to not be sweating student loans and having two kids in college… I wouldn’t need a house on Nantucket, say, and I’ve never wanted a BMW or a Coach handbag (ugh)…but I think (and I believe most people probably would agree) that a little bit of wealth is not necessarily a bad... Read more

2017-03-17T18:44:34+00:00

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If any of you folks are even bothering to check in here anymore to see if I’m posting, please know I would LOVE to be posting; I’d love to be a working blogger again, even on a limited basis, but as I mentioned in this post below, one unfortunate call to my provider, followed by one disastrous visit by a technician who seemed to know less about things mechanical/technical than I do – and I am hopeless – and the... Read more

2017-03-17T18:44:46+00:00

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We switched phone providers and since Thursday it’s been an adventure around here. The computers have been more down than up (they are finally up again) and the phone has problems that may remain until next Thursday. All of which has put me into something of a bad mood…but I’ll try not to take it out on the rest of the world… UPDATE: I no sooner posted this and my whole system went down again. Tech is here now…we’ll see... Read more

2017-03-17T18:44:50+00:00

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Pianogirl sent to me this very imaginative video and I loved it, both because it is so creative, and because it reminded me of our mutual friend Helen Schieber, aka Aussiegirl, who left us just about a year ago. Helen was an exceedingly bright woman and I never read anything by her – on her blog or in her comments on various forums – that did not make me feel enlarged and privileged. She had a gentle spirit (she did... Read more

2017-03-17T18:44:54+00:00

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Taranto’s Best of the Web column – always a good read – is particularly smart and funny today. Reading it is like watching a good hitter take batting practice, with one ball after another going out of the park. His first swing, “In Cold Blood” (wherein he examines a weatherman’s assertion that Iraq may only be going well because it’s so hot in July) is a home run, but it follows it up with other humdingers, little bits of idiocy... Read more

2017-03-17T18:44:59+00:00

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Let’s take a turn around the internets, shall we, and what’s fun and/or informative out there… Bang out of the Box, let’s look at Christopher Hitchen’s musings on our willingness to offend everyone but the Muslim. He writes: …if I choose to spit on a copy of the writings of Ayn Rand or Karl Marx or James Joyce, that is entirely my business. When I check into a hotel room and send my free and unsolicited copy of the Gideon... Read more

2017-03-17T18:45:06+00:00

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And ain’t it the truth. Read more

2017-03-17T18:45:15+00:00

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I dunno, maybe I’m just reading this wrong, but I looked at this very interesting study done by the WaPo, and I’m thinking…isn’t Rep. Norwood dead? How can he be the most partisan guy in congress, if he’s dead? He died in February of ’07. I suppose some will say since he was a member of this congress for a few weeks, he should be included. Well…okay. But it still seems to me that even if that’s the case, Mrs.... Read more

2017-03-17T18:45:19+00:00

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Because I am still trying desperately to catch up with my life and my email, it’s easier to be tagged by a meme than to actually think up a topic, and Obi’s Sister has a good one, I think: Five Reasons Why I Love Jesus 5) He’s got a good sense of humor. In this I see I am joined by Julie at Happy Catholic, for pretty much the same reasons. I love the sort of loving, semitic and word-based... Read more

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