Another cracking piece from WaiterRant. Marvellous!
Category Archives: Thoughts
“Legion”
Another powerful post from waiterrant: read it.
Maybe-Not-Intelligent-but-at-Least-Tasteful Design
Here’s a rib-tickler by Paul Rudnick about the problems of Intelligent Design: Day No. 1: And the Lord God said, “Let there be light,” and lo, there was light. But then the Lord God said, “Wait, what if I make it a sort of rosy, sunset-at-the-beach, filtered half-light, so that everything else I design will …
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Catching My Eye
The morning papers had a few items that made me pause and think: In the Guardian Simon Schama, with his own convoluted eloquence, is comparing the twin tragedies of 9/11 and Katrina. The Independent picks up a frightening possibility that the US may adopt a strategy of nuclear first use against WMD. The Guardian Online …
Hurricane Theodicy
Hurricane Katrina, like the Christmas Tsunami, has had us all interpreting and excusing or blaming God in one way or another. I’ve mentioned several opinions in my recent posts but wanted to add a few more. Edward Rothstein in the New York Times raises the subject of disaster and theodicy. Today’s Guardian has a piece …
Seeing What Isn’t There
What sex is your brain? That’s the question a BBC programme, Secrets of the Sexes, asked a short while ago. I didn’t see it but a number of people pointed me at an online quiz based on the programme. Not surprisingly, given my profession, I scored quite highly on the skills supposedly belonging to ‘female …
Complicity
Jeff over at Preaching Peace is saying some important things about New Orleans and what is revealed ‘in the poisoned mirror of the waters covering the city’. ‘We are complicitous. We elected people because they promised to keep our taxes low. They kept our taxes low at the expense of the levees. We elected people …
‘We Are On Our Own’: Katrina & Race
Today’s Guardian has a powerful piece by Darryl Pinckney about race and the aftermath of Katrina: ‘We are becoming like the countries we criticise and pity, places where the state and the society have less and less to do with each other. We are on our own, but then black people have always known that.’
Disaster II
The guys over at Sollicitudo Rei Socialis are doing a good job offering a sane religious commentary in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina–there’s been so much disgusting theology bandied about elsewhere to score points for some cause or other. In addition to the Red Cross they suggest you can also donate via Catholic Charities. In …
Disaster
I was writing something on the Laws of Nature but haven’t the heart to post it right now. There is too much loss around. I have a friend in New Orleans which personalises the tragedy unfolding there and, though he is safe, imagining him standing in the scenes I’ve seen on TV brings the horror …