Wednesday, April 8, 2020

The Great Triduum Lockdown Now Begins

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Sorry, regular readers, but as you know, once the sun sets on Holy Wednesday, my attentions are diverted.  Even in this singular year, I...

Quarantine Seems to Be Capricious

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Disaster in motion: Where flights from coronavirus-ravaged countries landed in US Interesting note: This story originally appeared on the ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

An Obituary of Note

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John Prine, One of America’s Greatest Songwriters, Dead at 73 Our favorite song of his.

China is Kind of Annoying

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China Bans Churches from Streaming Services, Even during Pandemic

Needlehooks

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“Ideally, testing for COVID–19 should be conducted, but it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate without this confirmation...

For Some, the Current Crisis is Merely an Authoritarian Test Run

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But apathy about cancel culture is very damaging to the Christian cause. Christianity is supposed to be spread by persuasion. If people are...

To be Fair, Surfers are Used to Hostility from Authorities

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Surely the publicity that has attended these enforcement actions will reduce the incidence of surfing, sunset-watching, and paddle boarding...
Monday, April 6, 2020

Coming to a Country Near Us

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Tyranny comes to Hyde Park: Middle-class busybodies and jobsworth cops are ruining this country. "Covid-Stasi". Very good.
Sunday, April 5, 2020

An Old Acquaintance Rebukes a Critic

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This week we received a letter from the Australian Consulate General of the People's Republic of China, who took gentle issue with our e...

Descolada #3: Authoritarian Version

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Saturday, April 4, 2020

Needlehooks

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This crisis will be resolved by truckers running the long haul on deserted highways, doctors and nurse working double shifts in scavenged PP...

A Pungent Realization

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I'm now living in a country where people get arrested for holding church services and for surfing.  No way I'm getting through this ...

Sojourn #38

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"But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees wh...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Clearly, this Woman is a Fool

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Coronavirus at beaches? Surfers, swimmers should stay away, scientist says

They Finally Got It Right

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This was a divisive MVP choice, so we re-voted ...

Bad Enough You May Get Trapped on One of Those Petri Dishes, But Now You Have to Worry about Acts of War

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This Venezuelan Patrol Ship Sunk Itself After Ramming A Cruise Liner With A Reinforced Hull  The Venezuelan ship appears to have been tryi...

Sojourn #37

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“In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.” - Isaiah 30:15

Descolada #2

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Fake police in Greeley direct driver into roadblock, question her about coronavirus stay-at-home order: Reports of police impersonation seem...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Descolada #1

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An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the Port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into the USNS Mercy ho...

Sojourn #36

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"Silence is solitude practiced in action. If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people...