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We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and to know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot “Four Quarters”, 1944
Happy Advent to all!
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and to know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot “Four Quarters”, 1944
Happy Advent to all!
November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and to know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot “Four Quarters”, 1944
Happy Advent to all!
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and to know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot “Four Quarters”, 1944
Happy Advent to all!
"When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind."
Hosea 8: 7
Hosea 8: 7
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind."
Hosea 8: 7
Hosea 8: 7
Maybe Mamdani isn't so crazy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Maybe Mamdani isn't so crazy: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Trump must be the most gullible mark in the world; the easiest to hoodwink. All our intel told him that Russia meddled in the 2016 election but Putin said "nyet" so Trump believed him. All our intel said MBS ordered Khashoggi's murder but MBS said "nope" & Trump believed him.
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Trump must be the most gullible mark in the world; the easiest to hoodwink. All our intel told him that Russia meddled in the 2016 election but Putin said "nyet" so Trump believed him. All our intel said MBS ordered Khashoggi's murder but MBS said "nope" & Trump believed him.
Good to revisit this article from Mother Jones in 2016 about how Trump profited off undocumented immigrants with his modeling firm in light of his current violent disdain for them. Once a hypocrite, always a hypocrite. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Good to revisit this article from Mother Jones in 2016 about how Trump profited off undocumented immigrants with his modeling firm in light of his current violent disdain for them. Once a hypocrite, always a hypocrite. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:
Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.
Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My choice for the Nobel Peace Prize this year:
Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.
Chef José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen.
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Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth.
Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.
Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.
September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth.
Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.
Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.
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Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.
October 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.
X limited me for what they deemed "Hateful Conduct" for this post:
@SpencerHakimian A definite slap to Sikh soldiers and to those African-American soldiers with PFB. He just wants to whittle it down to white cis men, preferably Christian nationalists.
What a joke Elon is. If that's hateful why
@SpencerHakimian A definite slap to Sikh soldiers and to those African-American soldiers with PFB. He just wants to whittle it down to white cis men, preferably Christian nationalists.
What a joke Elon is. If that's hateful why
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
X limited me for what they deemed "Hateful Conduct" for this post:
@SpencerHakimian A definite slap to Sikh soldiers and to those African-American soldiers with PFB. He just wants to whittle it down to white cis men, preferably Christian nationalists.
What a joke Elon is. If that's hateful why
@SpencerHakimian A definite slap to Sikh soldiers and to those African-American soldiers with PFB. He just wants to whittle it down to white cis men, preferably Christian nationalists.
What a joke Elon is. If that's hateful why
Oh Marco, where have you gone? Back in 2015 you looked like the new face of the Republican Party: younger, moderate, always smiling (funny, you never smile anymore). I have voted Republican a few times in my life. You seemed appealing. But the darkness began to descend. You went thru a period of
September 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Oh Marco, where have you gone? Back in 2015 you looked like the new face of the Republican Party: younger, moderate, always smiling (funny, you never smile anymore). I have voted Republican a few times in my life. You seemed appealing. But the darkness began to descend. You went thru a period of
Thank you to "Give Us This Day" for today's reflection! Needed now more than ever.
September 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thank you to "Give Us This Day" for today's reflection! Needed now more than ever.
The whitewashing of the many, many instances of Charlie Kirk's hateful speech about others reminds me of what many did post Civil War in whitewashing the reasons: "it was just about states' rights". Good Christian people justified slavery & lynching. But shoot, they went to church every Sunday. So..
September 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The whitewashing of the many, many instances of Charlie Kirk's hateful speech about others reminds me of what many did post Civil War in whitewashing the reasons: "it was just about states' rights". Good Christian people justified slavery & lynching. But shoot, they went to church every Sunday. So..
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Never forget that a Fox News host said homeless people should be put to death by lethal injection, and they didn't even take away his morning donut.
September 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Never forget that a Fox News host said homeless people should be put to death by lethal injection, and they didn't even take away his morning donut.
If anything saves Christianity in the modern age it will be the Black Church.
September 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
If anything saves Christianity in the modern age it will be the Black Church.
Worth reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Worth reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
I'm a believer in universalism so I have no problem believing Kirk is in heaven, but I do think he is going to be quite surprised at all the others who are too! 😉 (all created in the Divine Image you know)
September 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I'm a believer in universalism so I have no problem believing Kirk is in heaven, but I do think he is going to be quite surprised at all the others who are too! 😉 (all created in the Divine Image you know)
Bishop Robert Barron has failed the Church spectacularly. In praising Kirk as an example of "civil discourse" he ignores the effect of Kirk's words denigrating, demeaning, dismissing Black people because he loved Jesus & promoted Christianity. In this Barron is not acting as a good shepherd. Murder
September 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Bishop Robert Barron has failed the Church spectacularly. In praising Kirk as an example of "civil discourse" he ignores the effect of Kirk's words denigrating, demeaning, dismissing Black people because he loved Jesus & promoted Christianity. In this Barron is not acting as a good shepherd. Murder
Who's watching "Death of Stalin" today?
August 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Who's watching "Death of Stalin" today?
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It’s plain as day.
August 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It’s plain as day.
Trump is a Russian asset. For how long has he been? Who knows; probably since he lusted over opening a Trump tower in Moscow.
Oh and Trump is also the actual Deep State MAGA has been searching for. Right there, in front of you.
Oh and Trump is also the actual Deep State MAGA has been searching for. Right there, in front of you.
August 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Trump is a Russian asset. For how long has he been? Who knows; probably since he lusted over opening a Trump tower in Moscow.
Oh and Trump is also the actual Deep State MAGA has been searching for. Right there, in front of you.
Oh and Trump is also the actual Deep State MAGA has been searching for. Right there, in front of you.
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If we pre-emptively rooted out all babies with a genetic risk of disability, the world would never have known Tolouse-Latrec, Van Gogh, Lincoln, Darwin, Beethoven, Albert Einstein, Temple Grandin, Jane Austen, Andy Warhol, just to name a few.
I can answer this very quickly: No.
August 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If we pre-emptively rooted out all babies with a genetic risk of disability, the world would never have known Tolouse-Latrec, Van Gogh, Lincoln, Darwin, Beethoven, Albert Einstein, Temple Grandin, Jane Austen, Andy Warhol, just to name a few.
"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever
August 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever
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Was it the strategy of this administration all along to target & deport Venezuelans to that hellhole so they could be used as a bargaining chip to get Americans held in Venezuela released? Is it that cruel?
July 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Was it the strategy of this administration all along to target & deport Venezuelans to that hellhole so they could be used as a bargaining chip to get Americans held in Venezuela released? Is it that cruel?