Skip to main content

Links!

There is a lively debate going on at my wife's blog, Doxology, about (guess what?) Bishop Henry and Paul Martin's ability to take communion. There are two posts, here and here. This is also relevant. This is not good news. Tip: Cross Border Blogger Ever wonder what happened too the 'Arab street'? Me too. Christopher Hitchens takes a look under the hyperbole. The Queen, unintentionally funny. Unbelievable. The Rise of Radical Liberalism - a nice summary of how classical Liberalism has turned itself inside out through the embrace of many things, but especially positive liberty and Jean Jacques Rousseau. An honest journalist. It's becoming clear that this idea is going the way of the dodo:
"Honesty and tenacity (and for that matter, the working class) seem to have taken backseats to the sort of 'snappy news', sensationalism, scandal-for-the-sake of scandal crap that sells. This is not a uniquely Tribune or even newspaper industry problem: this is true from the Atlanta mixing rooms of CNN to Sulzberger's offices in Times Square. Profits: that's what it's all about now. But you just can't realize annual profit returns of more than 30 percent by methodically laying out the truth in a dignified, accessible manner. And it's damned tough to find that truth every day with a mere skeleton crew of reporters and editors."
This sounds like an interesting book. Wiegel writes fine columns too. Ales Raus has created a wikki for those curious to know if a given book is "kosher" with Catholic teaching. It's new and does not have many entries yet, but if people chip in, over time this could be an interesting stop. Finally, Trudeaupia is going on hiatus. That's a shame. Kevin Jaeger's blog was part of the Red Ensign group and it was fun place to stop by. Hope we see you blogging again soon!

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Wordpress

My move to Mac has been very happy except for two issues - gaming and blogging. For websurfing and multimedia, a Mac is of course a terrific machine. Games on the Mac platform are often ports of games made for the larger PC market and that means a Mac gamer will have to wait for the port. I'm not a heavy gamer by any means but I am very happy that the Mac port of Civilization 4 is finally here. Well, my copy isn't here quite yet - but it has been ordered and ought to be here soon. The blogging issue is more complicated. I'm not fond of writing my posts in a browser window. This goes back to when I was first blogging and I lost one or two large posts into the ether. After that I moved to w.bloggar - a great little app that let me compose on my desktop and then click send when all was said and done. I have not been able to recreate that experience on my Mac, and not for a lack of trying! I looked at Marsedit , but that forces you to compse while staring at a bunch of HMT...

Da Vinci: It bleats, it leads

The trouble with The DaVinci code is certainly this : the fundamentals of the Christian creed can be summarized in a few sentences easily learned by schoolchildren and recited aloud from memory by the whole congregation on Sunday. They are great mysteries to be sure - Trinity, incarnation, redemption, salvation, crucifixion, resurrection - but they are simple enough to explain. Contrast that with the account Mr. Brown offers of a centuries-long fraud, sustained by shadowy groups, imperial politics, ruthless brutality and latterly revealed by a secret code "hidden" in one of the world's most famous paintings. The Christian Gospel offers a coherent, comprehensible account of reality that invites the assent of faith. It requires a choice with consequences. Mr. Brown's dissent from Christianity offers a bewildering and incredible amalgam of falsehoods and implausibilities, painting a picture of a world in which the unenlightened are subject to the manipulations of the fe...