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@canneddragons Bad faith?! On the internets!? Surely not!

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TIL the term “ferial cooking” because I’m reading Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection. 📚Don’t ask me yet what I think of it; I’ll have no helpful answer. (I barely started it a few years back, quitting, baffled. Took it up again lately.)

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@JohnBrady The coolth arriveth back in IN, too.

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How should we live? microblog.intellectualoid.com

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@canneddragons There is something very special about the Virginia landscape out around the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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@ReaderJohn … and now Italy has found the basket …

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From the score (17-8, USA over Italy late in the first quarter) you’d think this was a rout. But Italy is ferocious, and really skilled, on defense. (TNT, live as a write).

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I have missed David Brooks on the NYT Opinion pages, and I’m at least mildly excited about his new Atlantic podcast, The Permanent Questions

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@KyleEssary I, too, thought “global south” was an odd characterization. I took the overall point (especially in conjunction with the podcast my contrary friend summarizes) to be that American hegemony/unipolarity was over and we’re living in denial about that.

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I have a very bright, very well-travelled Orthodox Texan cyberfriend who has taken to illustrating his contrarian opinion pieces with custom artwork. No idea if he finds them or generates them.

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\"Today’s

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Today’s illustration and the contrariness it accompanies.

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@jmk Yeah, I think “be not afraid” would be welcome words of introduction for a being like that.

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@jabel Dissing coffeeholics. Can I figure out how to cancel you for that …

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@robertbreen My first reply was in haste as I had to run an errand. I also love things like an outline of the article and a summary as well. Still exploring; summaries appear to be universal; outlines less so.

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@robertbreen I’m exploring. Reader may become my default read-later approach.

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TIL: I have over 50,000 documents in Readwise.

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I should pay more attention when Readwise announces a major upgrade. Its Ghostreader appears to centralize functionality I’ve been cobbling together from hither and yon. I don’t know when it was introduced, but today was my discovery day.

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The End Is Near for the American Bar Association | Josh Blackman.

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I cannot vouch that Team Trump’s law school accreditation plan will be the death of the ABA, but I can vouch for Josh Blackman’s claim that it became a left-wing advocacy group. I wasn’t a member and participated in few programs.

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@JohnBrady Yes, the thought has occurred to me. The ones that look really spammy I delete without unsubscribing.

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I haven’t professed the Republican Party’s ever-devolving versions of America since 2005, yet I remain on a jillion shrill Republican email lists.

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The question du jour is how many of them must I unsubscribe from before they all get the picture: not one of them is getting one dime from me?

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Uh-oh! Dyson is gonna disrupt the electric toothbrush market now.

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I saved to Instapaper Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Whimsy and Kitsch Built This Powerful Women’s Voting Bloc for later detailed reading, but right out of the gate, it irritated me by categorically claiming that “Christian women” gobble this stuff up. Not all flavors of Christian women did or do, m’am.

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@mwerickson I don’t know how much he’s changed my manner of living. A lot, including other family members, affect that. But I sure stopped hurling epithets like “tree-hugger” decades ago.

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@ablerism Advance copy because of your work with disability? He’s been on my radar since he was a doctoral candidate at Purdue. Even though his target today was progressive, I don’t think conservatives would fare any better.

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Freddie deBoer took my breath away today. Sorry to Bother You.

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The coincidence of the deaths of Dolly Parton and Wendell Berry presents a fine opportunity to reflect on virtue, so different were they in how they presented to the world.

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@jabel Sounds as if Wendell was to you as Clive (C.S. Lewis) was to me in a formative time. But he was already gone when I discovered him. Sorry for your loss.

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@ayjay @jaheppler Harder for me personally than Dolly. So different, but each admirable in so many ways.

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@daniel I had nearly 5 decades of baggage from other Christian traditions, each misguided about many things, to unload. Evangelical was one, Calvinist another. The beliefs are in some ways easier to lose than the disposition.

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@JohnBrady Too many for me to keep up with all the “backstories” any more. Much of the time, the priest says “we’re receiving X and Y by Chrismation Sunday” and I don’t even recognize them, let alone by name.

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It’s great!

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Fall’s Eve – Tipsy Teetotaler ن

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@daniel Father and son baptized (forsaking atheism) 3 weeks ago; college boy baptized 2 weeks ago; young couple (not yet engaged) received yesterday; infant baptism “Saturday next” as the priest says. 14 catechumens being instructed separately. And our priest is 82 years old.

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@ReaderJohn My version was wandering the campus looking for where the final exam was being administered, doubly panicked because I had forgotten I was enrolled in the course and had attended no classes.

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Ouch! I can imagine this nightmare: An Actual SCOTUS Nightmare

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Socrates Meets a Street Preacher

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@joshuapsteele After a week of coolth, we’re getting that heat-up, too.

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@lukemperez @ablerism My first year at boarding school was consciously fine, but one nightmare about my dad’s death (35 years before he actually died) signaled that the subconscious wasn’t as fine with it.

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@daniel @gemlog @TechpriestBaunach Permit me, a mere tonsured Reader (serving as Cantor), to jump in. Our Monasteries do daily liturgies (and the canonical hours, too). Fr. Deacon Daniel has identified practical impediments in parishes.

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I suspect the presence of Catholic Churches in the center city facilitates daily attendance by the faithful. As Orthodoxy grows in America, our parishes, in my impression, tend to require driving to somewhere less central.

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Just remembered this, one of my earliest blogposts: I don’t mind singing in an empty Church

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Michigan statute (MCL §168.931(1)(e)) is an extraordinary criminal law:

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A priest, pastor, curate, or other officer of a religious society shall not for the purpose of influencing a voter at an election, impose or threaten to impose upon the voter a penalty of excommunication, dismissal, or expulsion, or command or advise the voter, under pain of religious disapproval.

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Violation is a misdemeanor. Really. This is not the Onion.

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@ayjay I used to think I wanted “Drat! Just when I almost had it all figured out!”

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@canneddragons I’m looking forward to the others in the series. May God give Malcomb the years and wisdom to finish them.

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@Miraz That’s your best share since the earth weather map! And there’s a whole channel of ’em!

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With David Brooks and Ross Douthat gone, I’ve lost a lot of enthusiasm for the New York Times Opinion page.

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@daniel That gets easier to remember every month, and with every mental and physical lapse.

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Shedding my inner Eeyore for a moment, I, not a gee-whiz space exploration fan, am kinda excited by this: The Roman telescope is about to take planet-hunting to the next level | Nature

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Why was I not told?

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I didn’t really expect to get Social Security Retirement benefits. Reality has exceeded expectation.

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But I don’t know how the nation is going to deal with this: The Social Security benefit cliff is here. Washington is struggling to wake up. - POLITICO

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Washington giveth, Washington taketh away.

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One of my wife’s besties, an 80-year-old Evangelical retired English teacher, has never read C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce. Tomorrow, when they meet for their weekly coffee, we lend her our only paper copy (though I read it often enough to have added a Kindle version).

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Whew! Finished Carlos Eire, Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650. 📚 He’s certainly thorough.

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POTUS DJT signs Executive Order purporting to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”

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Since I’m not in the Executive branch, I can, and will, utterly ignore it, as I ignored the “Gulf of America” nonsense. I don’t ask “how high” when he says “jump!”

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If all the Dolly Parton talk carries over to dominate a third day of the evening news, I’m gonna start getting miffed.

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About seven-in-ten U.S. adults (72%) say it’s extremely or very important that a doctor or other healthcare provider tells them if they’re using AI in their healthcare.

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Really?! I assume my doctor will use AI for things that aren’t bog-standard ailments with clear standards of care.

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Listening to Michael McDonald, Minute by Minute, on a closed-ear headset. I’ve said for decades that if I could trade my singing voice for a new one, it would be the Michael McDonald Model.

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