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I often still read to my son. Yes, he’s eighteen and doesn’t need a bedtime story any more. At least, not one I’d read to him. But I read his history articles and books to him, since his learning disability makes that too time-consuming. He’s in a history seminar about Hitler and Stalin. We’re starting … Continue reading Depressing reading
Thanks to Eamonn Fitzgerald’s Rainy Day: The nun’s story: She saw, she claimed, “straps covered with iron hooks, which penetrated to the bone, and tore off large pieces flesh at every blow.” The words there of the An Icon production German nun, Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich. Today, in the piazza in front of St Peter’s … Continue reading Long-belated follow-up
Via Silent Running, we have the full text of the New Zealand Parliament’s antisemitism resolution. Full text is here for your perusal. Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN (Acting Prime Minister): I move, That this House deplores recent attacks on Jewish graves and a Jewish chapel in Wellington; recalls the terrible history of anti-Semitism stretching over many … Continue reading Resolution against antisemitism
Okay, let me talk to you about Sundays. I play my iTunes with REM telling me about compasses, and I’ve explained to Barbara that I don’t think beers should be considered in terms of “units.” Rather, like the Hebrew word for water… maim … “beer” should not have a singular form, only a plural, when … Continue reading It is the evening of the day…
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