Chanting on the Cheap

In an idling moment, we came across Vatican Television’s broadcast of the 2 Pope Canonization Duo, last Sunday. It certainly was impressive to see the millions filling and overflowing Vatican Square, .... [continue reading]

Resurrection in Review

Chipster is reading Resurrection by  Leo Tolstoy.  It is not a particularly good novel because Tolstoy uses his characters as vehicles for didactic points rather than developing them of their own accord.  But although the character development is flat, the novel is carried along -- toward Siberia -- on its story line, . . . .   [continue reading]

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The One Percent Holocaust

  

Silicon billionaire Thomas J. Perkins has criticized the "persecution" of the rich by the radical poor as a "Progressive Kristallnacht."   . . .  [READ]

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Obama's Silver Platter

    

Last week, President Barack Obama announced his reforms of national surveillance while simultaneously defending NSA phone snooping as necessary for national security.  [ READ ]

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Informationally Modified Awareness

The headline read: PURPLE TOMATOES HEADING FOR SHOPS.  According to the report,  "the new tomatoes could improve the nutritional value of everyday foods"   ....  [ READ ]

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Speaking for the People of the World

A new grass-roots organisation in Mexico is seeking to convoke a Popular Assembly.   The manifesto on its home page states, ...  [ READ ]

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Wizmography

WIZMOGRAPHY is the science of cluttering simplicity with useless functionalities poorly explained.     [READ more]

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Dripping Honey

  

A mere month after Pope Francis exhorted the Church to fuss less over homosexuality  [ MORE ]

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The Pope's Hour Glass

Suddenly Pope Francis has become the darling of the liberal press for having condemned the moral, social, economic and environmental bankruptcy of liberalism.    [ MORE ]

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Aftermath - The Vulgarity of Empire

   

The morning after Kennedy was buried, the country awoke to find a stranger in its bed.   [ READ ]

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St. Jack

   

Anyone over the age of seven, the world over,  can tell you where he was on that day.... [ READ ]
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Chiaroscuro in the City of God

Chipster ponders joy and sorrow in the music of Juan Gutierrez Padilla and the Voice of Man as a social phenomenon.   [ READ ]

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