The name of this blog indicates a place where people seek their bearings, but this is not a site where they can actually find them—everyone is, or should be, his own wind rose.
Previous incarnations of this blog: here and here.
About Me rob
Having had the honor to become the subject of one of Normblog Friday blogger profiles, may I redirect you to my own Normblog profile. A very good way, in my opinion, to get to know the owner of this weblog.
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks: Answering God's Call
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In crisis, the wrong question to ask is, "What have I done to deserve this?" The right one is, "What am I now being summoned to do?" Each of us has a task. E...
Saturday Funnies
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Courtesy of Baloo’s Political Cartoon blog. I almost went with this, but
decided it’s really not the least bit funny. (H/T The Comical Conservative)
If you...
Obama Urged to Create Broad Plan on Veteran Issues
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Dustin Walker, RCP
A former infantry platoon leader in Iraq who now heads a veterans group
said Friday that while positive steps have been taken to reintegr...
Budgeting 201: An Immediate Debt Crisis
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*USA vs. Cyprus: Gross Government Debt to GDP*
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According to Speaker of the House John Boehner, *“We do not have an
immediate de...
Joe Biden: A Dumb and Dangerous Gun Owner
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As the left tries to find more and more ways to violate our
Constitutional rights, we have the Vice President of the United States
offering advice to r...
Mariage 3
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Les 'sages' donc ont voté la loi. C'était à prévoir vu la majorité des
socialistes au Sénat.
Aujourd'hui même, la loi donnant droit aux homosexuels de se...
Not necessarily the most bigoted
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I don't have the means to judge the comparative exercise reported on at the Washington Post; it's about degrees of racial tolerance across the countries of t...
The Northern Line
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Yesterday, my aunt and uncle (young 80-somethings) were traveling on
London’s Northern Line. A guitar wielding busker boarded the train. …
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So Long (and thanks for all the fish)
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So Long (and thanks for all the fish)
I've been putting off writing this post, but I can't put this off forever:
I'm closing down my blog. This blog has a...
How do you love the Shepherd?
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7th Week of Easter (F)
Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP
St. Dominic Church, NOLA
I always find this reading from John a little embarrassing to read aloud.
It'...
Should We Be Eating More Bugs?
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Our planet contains about forty tons of bugs for every human, says Helena
Goodrich, offering and “ongoing ‘all you can eat” insect buffet.” While
snackin...
The Springtime of the Church: a statistical reckoning
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Following on from my earlier post on Rorate Caeli about the strange, and optimistic, statistical comparisons being made on the internet about the number of o...
A Baby Changes Everything
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A new baby is expected in our family.
No, for once it's not me who's pregnant.
Our oldest daughter and her husband recently announced they were expecting
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«Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof Lev. XXV, X
By Order of the Assembly of the Province of Pensylvania for the State House in Philada»
1752
«If I had a bell
I'd ring it in the morning
I'd ring it in the evening ...
all over this land,
I'd ring out danger
I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
...
It's a bell of freedom» Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
["If I Had a Hammer"]
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me. (...)"
William Shakespeare
«Julius Caesar»
Act 3, Scene 2