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July 2013

July 02, 2013

Resolved:

The opposite of elitism is democracy.Discuss.

July 01, 2013

Question: Is the United States a Democracy or a Republic?

Answer: Yes.Discuss.

June 2013

June 20, 2013

A Thousand Words

The above photo is from the men's fashion area of the New York Times online...

June 05, 2013

Creeping Abstraction, Part II

IN PART ONE, I TALKED ABOUT what I called the Creeping Abstraction of Accountability —...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Creeping Abstraction, Part I

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THERE WAS A well-publicized incident in which the brother of then-presidential candidate...

February 2013

February 03, 2013

At Daily Mass

In a Church downtown Old wood pews, High Altar lit, Gothic arches over sinners, Stone...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

Reaping What We Sow

So, in Newtown, Connecticut, 20 children are dead. 20 Children. Most of them six-year-olds. Gunned...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

The “Party of Life”…

...shows the folly of the assertion that you have to vote for Romney because abortion.

September 2012

September 23, 2012

Liturgical Music

I go to the Saturday vigil Mass on Saturdays with my Mom, because she is...

September 02, 2012

For Our Hope

In my recent discussion thread, there were some pretty dismissive things said about people I...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

“Exclusive”

Resolved: it is a sin to buy a house in a neighborhood because it advertises...

July 2012

July 20, 2012

Happy Faults

Thank You, O LordFor my exceeding weaknessMy selfishness, my moods, my failures;For when you come...

May 2012

May 13, 2012

Bricks

Passing by St Patrick's An old church downtown By glass and steel surrounded I reached...

April 2012

April 18, 2012

“I Was Hungry”

ON Wednesday Evenings, I feed the homeless of Berkeley at a Lutheran Church near the...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

More Ashes, Fewer Drums

Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt...

February 14, 2012

A Blessed Reminder

Among the things I love most about living in the American west is camping in...

February 13, 2012

It’s a Sin To Make Money By Lying

Every American teenage girl ought to be required to watch this. The American beauty industry's...

December 2011

December 07, 2011

For Hope, Saint of the Forgotten

Sitting with you in that room Among the haunted and wounded Tissue balled in your...

December 01, 2011

The Party of Economic Royalism in Full Panic Mode

Frank Luntz, on how Republicans should address the Occupy Wall Street movement: 1. Don't say...

November 2011

November 22, 2011

To a Companion

I have walked the mile, and shared the road, with companions fierce and true. I...

November 16, 2011

Getting Towards Autumn

Middle age is bittersweet - wisdom, but also absolute decline. Your sense of time both...

November 05, 2011

For November

And so the rain returns again Washing clean the sins of streets Splashing granite curbs,...

November 02, 2011

For Saint Jim of the Homeless

I see you now and then In the soup kitchen Eating ice cream With beatific...

November 01, 2011

A Gentle Word to OWS

[NOTE: Updated Below] Love is a weapon that cuts without wounding, and ennobles the one...

October 2011

October 19, 2011

A Song, to the Slough

In canyons of glass and Granite The vale of numb and silent tears A Gabriel...

October 12, 2011

From The Fall

Every once in awhile, something comes along that just pierces through to long-dusty dreams, and...

October 09, 2011

The Problem

There is no longer enough purchasing power in the hands of people who will spend...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

Confiteor

I feed the homeless on Wednesdays at a local Lutheran church in Berkeley, California, where...

September 05, 2011

Good Question for Labor Day

"Which Side Area You On?" by Florence Reese Come all you poor workers, good news...

August 2011

August 22, 2011

Resolved:

A church culture that fosters Perfect Contrition is superior to one that fosters Imperfect Contrition....