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Highly recommend the Discovery channel docu series “Serengeti.” Haunted by the baboon Bakari who emerges as great a heroic figure as anyone in literature. Wise and self-effacing, courageous and tender, generous, decisive, capable of deep feeling. What a model of lesdership!
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Why #TolstoysTalesofTrump? Suppose instead of the huge figure he sees in the mirror Trump was a very small character—a provincial landowner in one of Tolstoy’s moral tales. Vain, greedy, an ineffectual fool, yes, but one whose flaws reveal by contrast what is true and good.
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A tv critic provides one of the most lucid explanations of the Trump presidency. The key is to understand the nature of reality tv. Trump has broken the 4th wall—we are now living in his show. nytimes.com/2019/09/06/opini…
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Elizabeth McAlister and Fr Steve Kelly SJ have now spent 500 days in jail awaiting trial. They and Kings Bay 7 Plowshares codefendants face 25 years in prison. ncronline.org/news/opinion/e… via @ncronline
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Historical footnote: For 11 days over Christmas 1972 the US conducted the largest B-52 bombing raids in history over North Vietnam, destroying among other targets the Bach Mai Hospital In Hanoi. The next month we signed the Paris Peace Accords. What kind of people?
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Highly recommend “Official Secrets,” true story of Uk whistleblower Katherine Gun, who tried to prevent an illegal and immoral war. Everyone in gov service should know there are times when a higher loyalty calls for risking yr job or even jail to tell the truth.
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The other side of this are the strategies that members of a family resort to with a parent like this: adapting to his “reality,” anticipating his moods, affirming his grandiose ego, dismissing facts that contradict his story, adopting his “enemies” list, basking in his approval..
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Cassandra was granted the gift of seeing the future. But she also received the curse that no one would believe her. (Until It was too late.)
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Beyers Naude, d Sept 7 2004, grew up in a proud Afrikaner family. His father was an architect of apartheid and he grew up to believe God had chosen S Africa for white people. But he changed, becoming a leader in the church struggle against apartheid. “Banned” for 11 years.
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On the other hand, people like this exist. Diet Eman, Dutch resistance hero who saved Jews during World War II, dies at 99 washingtonpost.com/local/obi…
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In the end the wheat crop was plentiful. But the old man kept insisting so vehemently that he HAD been correct at the time when he predicted failure that his neighbors began to think he must have a point and they praised his prescience.—#TolstoysTalesofTrump
The Fake News Media was fixated on the fact that I properly said, at the beginnings of Hurricane Dorian, that in addition to Florida & other states, Alabama may also be grazed or hit. They went Crazy, hoping against hope that I made a mistake (which I didn’t). Check out maps.....
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Forthcoming from @OrbisBooks
Lent 2020 is 173 days away. Plenty of time to get your parish or congregation prepared to pray, study, and do liturgy better than before.
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An outstanding book.
I think this may be the first (albeit brief) review of my new pope book *Wounded Shepherd*, out in US Nov. 5. publishersweekly.com/978-1-2…
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