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During the Great Depression shantytowns for the homeless were called Hoovervilles, in honor of the great Herbert Hoover. Perhaps a similar honorific should be assigned to refrigerated trucks/morgues. I propose “Trumpmobiles.”
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Asked why they encouraged their viewers to drink strawberry-flavored arsenic a Fox representative said, “Because it tastes so damned good!”
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“Have you got your Trump?” It would be a nice gesture to attach his name to the denialism that masks as invulnerability among his MAGA followers. “No worries! I’ve got my Trump. It’s all good!”
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Leo Tolstoy, who died Nov 20 1920, was born to an aristocratic family, served in the military, and then won fame and wealth as author of such great novels as *War and Peace*. Despite his success he felt there must be a deeper meaning to life.
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Whenever he felt sad or desperate the master resorted to a little dance he had learned from his lawyer— a simple two-step jig he called “Dodging the Hokey Pokey.” He tried to teach it to his fellow masters, but none of them got it. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Leo Tolstoy, who died Nov 20 1920, was born to an aristocratic family, served in the military, and then won fame and wealth as author of such great novels as *War and Peace*. Despite his success he felt there must be a deeper meaning to life.
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He concluded that the search for happiness was inseparable from the call to holiness, the effort to conform one’s life to the rule of God, summarized, as he believed, in the Sermon on the Mount. He set out to live a simple life on his family estate.
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But he was never able fully to embrace the ideals he preached. His quest for happiness was marked by the ambivalence and divided conscience that accompanied him until his death, at the age of 82, in a tiny village where he collapsed during a final flight from his home and family.
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In his last years he on nonviolence, his religious philosophy, and “moral tales” depicting gospel values in the life of peasants and poor people, and the vanity of masters and the “leisured class.” I have wondered what he would say about our age. @OrbisBooks #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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Dorothy remains the same. Only I have grown older.
Join us & @DayGuild on 11/29 for a celebration of "The Living Legacy of Dorothy Day."
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Peter Hinde, O. Carm, died today Nov 19 2020. A holy servant of God and the poor, who accompanied the church in Latin America over many decades. Here in San Salvador for the Beatification of San Romero. ¡Presente!
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In a special ritual of ”Release and Renewal” the master was advised to tear up all the evidence of his crimes and toss the pieces in a fire. Afterward he was overcome by the warm glow of impunity. #TolstoysTalesofTrump
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In one extraordinary vision she perceived that “the smallest details of creation are reflected in the Holy Trinity by means of the humanity of Christ, because it is from the same earth that produced them that Christ drew his humanity.” (Icon William Hart McNichols)
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