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Dancing... or drinking through life
I am not even sure that I know how to do a link anymore. I'm giving it a shot though so, three readers, please forgive me if I mess this up.
So Rod Dreher's sister is battling cancer. It is nasty. Their faith is extraordinary. Here's his latest post (I think)
There are 8 comments on it.
As I scrolle
posted 3:05:22pm Mar. 02, 2010 |
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Back...
I'm back here at JWalking after a bit of time because I just want someplace to record thoughts from time to time. I doubt that many of the thoughts will be political - there are plenty upon plenty of people offering their opinions on everything political and I doubt that I have much to add that will
posted 10:44:56pm Mar. 01, 2010 |
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Learning to tell a story
For the last ten months or so I've been engaged in a completely different world - the world of screenwriting. It began as a writing project - probably the 21st Century version of a yen to write the great American novel - a shot at a screenplay. I knew that I knew nothing about the art but was inspir
posted 8:01:41pm Feb. 28, 2010 |
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And just one more
I have, I think, just one more round of chemo left.
When I go through my pill popping regimen tomorrow morning it will be the last time for this particular round of drugs. Twenty-three rounds, it seems, is enough.
What comes next? We'll go back to what we did after the surgery. We'll watch and measu
posted 11:38:45pm Nov. 18, 2008 |
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A Newfie for Obama
NPR asked me to do a short memo to the president-elect. I chose to do it on the dog he should choose... and why. Check it out.
posted 12:25:10am Nov. 15, 2008 |
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posted September 7, 2007 at 9:57 am
True.
posted September 7, 2007 at 11:10 am
I think it is the adolescent tone that repulses me about that statement. It is a phrase used in video games where the deaths are not real, in football games (which don’t matter in the great scheme of things unless you are from Texas) and in bragging rights with other adolescents.
This sort of comment has always been lingering just out of sight and hearing from this president. Occasionally we hear it and somehow are not shocked. It is what we can expect from someone with few words or ideas. But I am always diappointed. After 7 years in this job, I keep hoping for a moment of grace where it becomes apparent that he has learned something. Just disappointment so far.
Cleaning up our language – the language we use privately and publicly – is the task of adulthood. My sophomore students use “like, you know” maybe 10,000 times a day – ok I’m exaggerating. By the time they are seniors – it is heard rarely. My children do not use such phrases at all now. They allowed their language to become clear and descriptive. George Bush talks like a sophomore.
posted September 7, 2007 at 11:28 am
Isn’t lack of humility a requirement for being a neo-con?
I know many people who are true conservatives and liberals with a great deal of humility. Good, good people they are.
Humility, understand and a thirst for knowledge do not make one weak or stupid.
posted September 7, 2007 at 11:49 am
It’s been so long since “Bring it on!” made my blood turn cold, I’d forgotten about that. Now I’m reminded. Good grief.
posted September 7, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Pride goeth before the fall…
The problem is that this man has taken us all over the cliff and refuses to acknowledge it.
posted September 7, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
This is definitely about pride and having a haughty spirit. Personally, it scares me to think about the amount of destruction that will occur, not to mention what has already occurred!
posted September 7, 2007 at 1:37 pm
When will american’s finally stand up and say we are NOT going to take this ANYMORE ??? I seen yesterday that one site had 8,611 peolpe making comment’s on the hurricne that killed many people in hoduras & nicaragua ,but we can’t get that many americna’s to step up and protect bush’s action’s & decision’s and get some affordable health care for family’s, who work so hard to keep the economic’s of this country going, or to stand up about the homeless military vet’s & homeless families living in our streets is horrendous in my book !! what has happened to WE THE PEOPLE ????
posted September 7, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Bushs’ Christianity has always struck me as one of title, not deeds. These little “slips” are like finding a roach in the kitchen – you see one, but there are hundreds more in the walls.
Phil
posted September 8, 2007 at 3:05 am
Of course, the Decider-in-Chief is keeping things in the family.
That is the phrase, if you will recall, President Bush 41 used to describe his vice presidential debate with Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.