May
17
Outliving Dad
May 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I try not to be too neurotic, but sometimes it can be a little difficult. I just finished reading a novel by Carl Hiassen called Basket Case, in which the protagonist is a newspaper writer roughly my age who is obsessed with the ages at which famous persons have died because his own father died [...]
May
16
Big Apple II
May 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Just got back from another trip to New York City, one of my favorite places to spend a little time and lots of money. Sadly, more money than usual got spent this time because the whole family went. When it’s just me there on business it’s bad enough, but when it’s four of us–whoo boy.
One [...]
May
11
Stanley Fish on Heavenly Discourse
May 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Here’s an interesting excerpt from an interview with Stanley Fish regarding freedom of speech:
Q : You have written that speech is never a value in and of itself but is always produced within the precincts of some assumed conception of the good to which it must yield in the event of conflict. Could you [...]
May
10
Giving Up the Ghost
May 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I got to thinking the other day about this sequence of words in the Creed:
He was crucified, died, and was buried.
Note that it says that he was both crucified and he died. This is not just pleonastic style, I think, but says something important about Our Lord, and about sin and death.
There is a passage [...]
May
1
Open Borders
May 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There’s an article at National Review Online in which congressman Tom Tancredo tries to imagine what it would be like if illegal immigrants were really to refuse to do anything today. Not legal immigrants, mind you, just the illegal ones. He tries to paint a picture in which life for the rest of us would [...]
