Expat or Immigrant?

July 11, 2012

Sub-header of what looks like it will be an intriguing piece by one Ritwik Deo, in the Guardian: The British …

“Obamacare” Is Not Healthcare Reform

July 2, 2012

Long-time friends and visitors have seen my rambles before on healthcare — especially in this blog’s previous incarnation, in looking …

It’s A Small “World” After All

June 22, 2012

Yours truly watched ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer” on June 21, 2012. It was such a mind-numbing experience this …

Starting To Think The New York Times Dislikes Catholics

June 2, 2012

Last weekend, the New York Times Editorial Board treated us to its justification for the Obama administration’s “HHS Mandate”. The …

Stop “DREAM”-ing And Embrace Reality

May 7, 2012

CNN headline to a piece by Ruben Navarrette Jr.: Will parties keep hope live for immigrant children? Yours truly feels …

Asma al-Assad: Definitely No Longer In Vogue

April 29, 2012

Vogue is being hammered from one end of the web to the other for deleting its (ridiculous, even at the …

“Americans United” Could Use A Good History Lesson, Too

April 23, 2012

The Rev. Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State: …What a surprise, then, …

I Do Not “Donate” To Any President

April 5, 2012

This seems appropriate for Holy Week. The conservative Heritage Foundation offers readers this abstract to its piece entitled, “Faith, Freedom, …

Olana Overlooking The Hudson

March 23, 2012

Olana: the home and grounds of 19th century landscapes artist Frederic Church. Yours truly grabbed these photos of the house …

The Predictable “I’m a Catholic, but…” Whinge

February 18, 2012

There seems to be a misunderstanding circulating that government and religion are somehow supposed to be a “two-way” street. Where …

RT @TOIWorldNews: 'For weeks, killers hunted for soldiers' timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/For-w… 1 hour ago
Is there some doubt there was a 'fire'? Hence the quotes? RT “@BBCNews: Heathrow back to normal after 'fire' bbc.in/18edii1” 1 hour ago
Journalists may need to go back to letter writing. MT “@politico: Justice Department defends actions in Rosen case: politi.co/19b4hVN” 9 hours ago
RT @holland_tom: The First Emperor dealt with stroppy intellectuals by having them tattooed on their faces & condemned to hard labour at th… 9 hours ago
Okay, it does look like it's going to get better weather-wise. #Enfield #London http://t.co/Xro3Ur8Z9R 9 hours ago

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"But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. We can tell them the moment we see them. They always throw out a few feelers; they never cast themselves adrift till they have sounded every individual and know that he has not traveled. Then they open their throttle valves, and how they do brag, and sneer, and swell, and soar, and blaspheme the sacred name of Truth! Their central idea, their grand aim, is to subjugate you, keep you down, make you feel insignificant and humble in the blaze of their cosmopolitan glory! They will not let you know anything. They sneer at your most inoffensive suggestions; they laugh unfeelingly at your treasured dreams of foreign lands; they brand the statements of your traveled aunts and uncles as the stupidest absurdities; they deride your most trusted authors and demolish the fair images they have set up for your willing worship with the pitiless ferocity of the fanatic iconoclast! But still I love the Old Travelers. I love them for their witless platitudes, for their supernatural ability to bore, for their delightful asinine vanity, for their luxuriant fertility of imagination, for their startling, their brilliant, their overwhelming mendacity!"

Mark Twain, in "The Innocents Abroad."

1 In this actual world, a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid down grade.

2 Church work and church attendance mean the cultivation of the habit of feeling responsibility for others.

3 There are enough holidays for most of us. Sundays differ from other holidays in the fact that there are fifty-two of them every year. Therefore, on Sundays go to church.

4 Yes, I know all the excuses. I know that one can worship the Creator in a grove of trees, or by a running brook, or in a man's own house as well as in church. But I also know, as a matter of cold fact, that the average man does not thus worship.

5 He may not hear a good sermon at church. He will hear a sermon by a good man who, whith his wife, is engaged all of the week in making hard lives a little easier.

6 He will listen to and take part in reading some beautiful passages from the Bible. And if he is not familiar with the Bible he has suffered a loss.

7 He will take part in the singing of some good hymns.

8 He will meet and nod or speak to good, quiet neighbors. He will come away feeling a little more charitable toward all the world, even toward those excessively foolish young men who regard churchgoing as a soft performance.

9 I advocate a man's joining in church work for the sake of showing his faith by his works.

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Starting To Think The New York Times Dislikes Catholics

Stop “DREAM”-ing And Embrace Reality

Asma al-Assad: Definitely No Longer In Vogue

“Americans United” Could Use A Good History Lesson, Too

I Do Not “Donate” To Any President

Olana Overlooking The Hudson

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