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( Well, i applaud Father Rohr's (and Duns Scotus') take on )

Could be.  I wouldn't want to chance it ( Read more... )

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This morning's newspaper contained a review of Pamela Constable Random's book:Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself.
The review included the following quotes:

" ...(M)any Pakistanis feel they have no power.
         They see the trappings of representative democracy
          but little tangible evidence of its working in their lives ( Read more... )

Listening to "Karzai Talk" on "Afghan Public Radio" (I don't know what the show is really called since i listen on my car radio and have never heard the beginning or ending of any episode)  The "brothers" are trying unsuccessfully to burn a Bible in retaliation for the burnings of copies of the Quran by the U. S, military.  Their lighter is ( Read more... )

"Between 2005 and 2009, median African-American households -- those right in the middle -- saw their net worth decline by 53 percent, falling from $12,124 to $5,677. Median Hispanic households saw an even sharper drop, from $18,359 to $6,325 -- a 66 percent plunge. Meanwhile, median white households saw their net worth fall from $134,992 to $113, ( Read more... )

Mubarak doesn't get it.  He comes on tv to tell the people he will give them what they want, on his terms, in his way, and in his good time ( Read more... )

Another trip to a doctor's office means another opportunity to look at magazines i don't usually read.
This week it was Newsweek for November, 8, 2010..
Among several interesting articles is "Newsweek's Power 50" by Matthew Miller and Andrew Romano
The headline reads as follows: "In the hypercommodified media culture of 2010 , the most influential ( Read more... )

Seeing their pictures on TV brings it all back.  About 600 Vietnamese villagers, aged and decrepit, mothers, children, babies, maybe a few young adult males, useless as soldiers or guerrillas; they were probably all Buddhists, knowing their noble truths and following their various eightfold paths.  but where is the serenity and compassion as they ( Read more... )