Going out of town for a few day; I'll be back on Monday. My post on Steve Jobs will have to wait. It should have some comments about this particular celebrity death. I had wanted to finish some posts before leaving, but they'll have to wait a bit longer.
Trailer for The Lady. (Luc Besson!)
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
More on the new Heiligenkreuz CD
From FB:
Neue CD "CHANT - Amor et Passio"
Ab 04.November im Handel!
Nach dem großen Erfolg der CD "Chant - Music for Paradise" waren wir erschöpft. Zugleich haben wir gesehen, wieviele Menschen sich über die geistlichen Gesänge freuen. Jetzt sind wir wieder soweit. Es macht uns sogar große Freude: Wir Mönche werden demnächst eine 2. CD mit unserem Gregorianischen Choral aufnehmen, sie wird den Titel tragen: "Chant - Amor et Passio". Es geht darin um die Liebe und die Leidenschaft Gottes.
Received the important emergency call from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department about an armed black suspect, 5'11", 260 lbs, wearing a black hat, large brown jacket and blue sweatpants. Later I saw this: Manhunt after 2 die in Calif. workplace shooting (via VFR)
I guess some will be getting a view of the county SWAT team today.
Kyrie eleison.
SJ Mercury
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I guess some will be getting a view of the county SWAT team today.
Kyrie eleison.
SJ Mercury
Items of Interest, 5 October 2011
Andrew Bacevich, Family Man: Christopher Lasch and the Populist Imperative (via Rod Dreher)
Who’s Afraid of Peter Van Buren’s Book? by Kelley B. Vlahos
Was Awlaki an American? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Steve Sailer, Sailer on Unz: Immigration, The Minimum Wage, And The Rule Of Law, Would raising the minimum wage deter low-skilled immigration?, On the minimum wage and immigration
Discussion of the minimum wage at Chronicles.
Young farmers: Anybody want to be a serf? by Erik Curren (EB)
Front Porch Republic and the Communion of Saints
Kevin Carson, Occupy Wall Street: Will the Other Shoe Drop?
Orion Magazine: The Reign of the One Percenters by Christopher Ketcham
Income inequality and the death of culture in New York City
How State Banks Bring the Money Home by Stacy Mitchell
Big banks freeze out small business, but North Dakota’s state bank supports local jobs. The idea is catching on.
The Spearhead: Reader Responses to Bill Bennett’s “Man Up” Piece
Susan Walsh, Marcotte’s Boxers Are In a Twist Over Nice Guys®
Diet and Health:
Kurt Harris - Jimmy Moore inquires about "safe starches" and I, Caveman (More on I, Caveman: Robb Wolf and Curiosity)
Music:
Laurie Lewis and Bill Monroe
Travis Hayley, formerly of Magpul Dynamics, has produced an instructional video on his own - I don't think I've posted this before:
Handgun Grip
TV: In 'Homeland,' It's Hard To Know Whom To Trust
Movies: A new trailer for War Horse -- AICN and JoBlo and Apple
Who’s Afraid of Peter Van Buren’s Book? by Kelley B. Vlahos
Was Awlaki an American? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Steve Sailer, Sailer on Unz: Immigration, The Minimum Wage, And The Rule Of Law, Would raising the minimum wage deter low-skilled immigration?, On the minimum wage and immigration
Discussion of the minimum wage at Chronicles.
Young farmers: Anybody want to be a serf? by Erik Curren (EB)
Front Porch Republic and the Communion of Saints
Kevin Carson, Occupy Wall Street: Will the Other Shoe Drop?
Orion Magazine: The Reign of the One Percenters by Christopher Ketcham
Income inequality and the death of culture in New York City
How State Banks Bring the Money Home by Stacy Mitchell
Big banks freeze out small business, but North Dakota’s state bank supports local jobs. The idea is catching on.
The Spearhead: Reader Responses to Bill Bennett’s “Man Up” Piece
Susan Walsh, Marcotte’s Boxers Are In a Twist Over Nice Guys®
Diet and Health:
Kurt Harris - Jimmy Moore inquires about "safe starches" and I, Caveman (More on I, Caveman: Robb Wolf and Curiosity)
Music:
Laurie Lewis and Bill Monroe
Travis Hayley, formerly of Magpul Dynamics, has produced an instructional video on his own - I don't think I've posted this before:
Handgun Grip
TV: In 'Homeland,' It's Hard To Know Whom To Trust
Movies: A new trailer for War Horse -- AICN and JoBlo and Apple
I think it reveals a rather major spoiler.
The stage production on Broadway.
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Items of Interest, 4 October, 2011
Rome Reports: Jaime Rodriguez, new secretary general of the Legionaries of Christ
The Lifeboat Hour - 09/18/11
September 16, 2011
Mike welcomes Carolyn Stayton and Trathen Heckman of Transition US to discuss the predicament humanity finds itself in and the importance of rapidly deployed collaboration of like-minded individuals and organizations. (mp3)
Tactical culture: Porchfest
The 10 Commandments - Guidelines to Surviving in a Post Peak Oil World by Chris Rhodes
Slow Money:
Edible Radio: Episode 102 Kitchen Sync with Woody Tasch
Peter Hitchens, Still Useless After All These Years – the Tory Party’s amazing survival
Seminar Slams Folly of Perpetual Economic Growth
David Korten: Why I'm in Solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet
Counterpunch:
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Day America Died (LRC)
JOHN FEFFER, Why 2012 Will Shake Up Asia and the World
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, Is the Jig Up on Wall Street?
American Council on Exercise Evaluates Benefits of Vibram FiveFingers® Shoes for Barefoot Runners
Army Times: New SOCOM boss touts ‘indirect’ action forces
The “Do’s” and “Don’ts” of Open Carry Part I by Roger Phillips
BCM:
The Lifeboat Hour - 09/18/11
September 16, 2011
Mike welcomes Carolyn Stayton and Trathen Heckman of Transition US to discuss the predicament humanity finds itself in and the importance of rapidly deployed collaboration of like-minded individuals and organizations. (mp3)
Tactical culture: Porchfest
The 10 Commandments - Guidelines to Surviving in a Post Peak Oil World by Chris Rhodes
Slow Money:
Edible Radio: Episode 102 Kitchen Sync with Woody Tasch
Peter Hitchens, Still Useless After All These Years – the Tory Party’s amazing survival
Seminar Slams Folly of Perpetual Economic Growth
David Korten: Why I'm in Solidarity with #OccupyWallStreet
Counterpunch:
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Day America Died (LRC)
JOHN FEFFER, Why 2012 Will Shake Up Asia and the World
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, Is the Jig Up on Wall Street?
American Council on Exercise Evaluates Benefits of Vibram FiveFingers® Shoes for Barefoot Runners
Army Times: New SOCOM boss touts ‘indirect’ action forces
The “Do’s” and “Don’ts” of Open Carry Part I by Roger Phillips
BCM:
One Day in a Monastery
I had copied the url for this trailer somewhere, but came across the trailer again today through Byzantine, Texas.
Monday, October 03, 2011
Emerson Knives
A HS classmate recommended the company, commenting on how quickly he could open the knives because of the wave-shaped opening feature. And they're supposedly made in the USA...
Some videos after the jump.
Some videos after the jump.
Reunion
The 20-year anniversary was held at a restaurant/bar in San Francisco near AT&T Park. Fortunately baseball season is over for the Giants, so it was not difficult to find parking. When I first arrived, I had second thoughts about attending, and it didn't help that I did not know (or recognize) anyone there after I signed in. I had decided to go for various reasons, but I did not have high expectations.
Items of Interest, 3 October 2011
Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Pope Benedict XVI
Transition: BBC2′s ‘Town’ programme about Totnes now online!
Shifting the Suburban Paradigm by Allison Arieff
Three strikes and you are out? - commentary [on Daniel Yergin's latest]
by Jeffrey J. Brown (EB)
Mark Mitchell, On Power (the subject of the post - On Power: The Natural History of its Growth by Bertrand de Jouvenel)
MARSHALL AUERBACK, Are Trade Deficits Really That Bad?
The new recession by Barath Raghavan (EB)
The real recession never ended
Anthony Mirhaydari, MSN Money
We're well into a recovery, so why does it still feel so bleak? Here's why: The crunch we’re in is rooted in stagnant paychecks and payrolls, and it’s more than a decade old.
Why an understanding of money creation is essential to financial reform by Josh Ryan-Collins
Redesigning business by Justin Ritchie (EB)
VIJAY PRASHAD, De-Colonize Wall Street
99% Wrong by Jim Goad
Jeffrey Polet, Plutonomics (he links to this article in Atlantic: "Can the Middle Class Be Saved?"
Reflections of a Questioner: The Palmetto Freedom Forum Revisited by Robert P. George
Fr. Z: Video interview with the Secretary of the Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei”. Link to the video.
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China
Transition: BBC2′s ‘Town’ programme about Totnes now online!
Shifting the Suburban Paradigm by Allison Arieff
Three strikes and you are out? - commentary [on Daniel Yergin's latest]
by Jeffrey J. Brown (EB)
Mark Mitchell, On Power (the subject of the post - On Power: The Natural History of its Growth by Bertrand de Jouvenel)
MARSHALL AUERBACK, Are Trade Deficits Really That Bad?
Has he looked at the problem of unmployment in connection to the supply of cheap energy and its displacement of human energy?
The new recession by Barath Raghavan (EB)
The real recession never ended
Anthony Mirhaydari, MSN Money
We're well into a recovery, so why does it still feel so bleak? Here's why: The crunch we’re in is rooted in stagnant paychecks and payrolls, and it’s more than a decade old.
Why an understanding of money creation is essential to financial reform by Josh Ryan-Collins
Redesigning business by Justin Ritchie (EB)
VIJAY PRASHAD, De-Colonize Wall Street
99% Wrong by Jim Goad
Jeffrey Polet, Plutonomics (he links to this article in Atlantic: "Can the Middle Class Be Saved?"
Reflections of a Questioner: The Palmetto Freedom Forum Revisited by Robert P. George
The importance of the Fourteenth Amendment for Robert George.
Fr. Z: Video interview with the Secretary of the Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei”. Link to the video.
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Deadly Costs of Muslim Sectarianism
Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China
Did you have any doubts that it would be have some sentimental nonsense?
It is a movie made by Americans. From An enlightened chat allows Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez to show Capone THE WAY!!!:
Imagine that, a movie that is centered on a Catholic pilgrimage route, and yet not only is one of the characters cremated (acceptable only in certain circumstances), but his ashes are scattered (absolutely forbidden by the Church). Will there be any mention of St. James, Christ, or the Christian God in this movie? Or does it just offer a poor American substitute for true spirituality?
I'll have more to say about the movie in my review later in the week, but my point is that it was a no-brainer for me on agreeing to interview the father and son responsible for this story about a Tom (Sheen), a dentist who must go to Europe to retrieve the body of his son (Estevez), who died early on the "El camino de Santiago" pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Tom decides to have his son cremated and walk the path himself, scattering the ashes at different inspirational points along the way. This is a film about the journey and the small band of travelers that join up with Tom along the road.
Imagine that, a movie that is centered on a Catholic pilgrimage route, and yet not only is one of the characters cremated (acceptable only in certain circumstances), but his ashes are scattered (absolutely forbidden by the Church). Will there be any mention of St. James, Christ, or the Christian God in this movie? Or does it just offer a poor American substitute for true spirituality?
Ayako Sono 曽野 綾子
At the Oktoberfest party, Mr. P recommended her novels. She is a Japanese Catholic author. (The Japanese wiki article.)
Murray Bookchin
Apparently he was influenced by Leopold Kohr, who is not mentioned in the wiki article. While he believed that the scale of the polity should be small, he is also a believer in democracy. He was the co-founder of the Institute for Social Ecology.
The Forms of Freedom: pt 1, 2, 3, 4
Q&A: 1, 2, 3
Bookchin archive
What is Social Ecology
Murray Bookchin on Growth and Consumerism
Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview
The ecology of freedom: the emergence and dissolution of hierarchy
murray bookchin: social anarchism, ecology and education
Withered Anarchism: A Surrebuttal to Murray Bookchin--Bob Black
"Belief Systems" are as flexible as the set of premises being held by someone.
The Forms of Freedom: pt 1, 2, 3, 4
Q&A: 1, 2, 3
Bookchin archive
What is Social Ecology
Murray Bookchin on Growth and Consumerism
Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview
The ecology of freedom: the emergence and dissolution of hierarchy
murray bookchin: social anarchism, ecology and education
Withered Anarchism: A Surrebuttal to Murray Bookchin--Bob Black
"Belief Systems" are as flexible as the set of premises being held by someone.
A Crisis of Bigness
This economic collapse is a 'crisis of bigness' by Paul Kingsnorth
Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened
Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Items of Interest, 2 October 2011
Why Did The American Colonists Revolt? by Thomas Ash
Is the War on Terror a Hoax? by Paul Craig Roberts
Economy:
Dr. Steve Keen on debunking economics by Aaron Wissner (EB)
Vanity Fair: California and Bust (via Rod Dreher)
Prophets Of Doom: 12 Shocking Quotes From Insiders About The Horrific Economic Crisis That Is Almost Here
Defeating the Deficit - David Stockman
Peak Oil:
Crisscrossing the Rubicon of peak oil by Kurt Cobb (EB)
"Drilling Down": Tainter and Patzek tell the energy-complexity story by Gail Tverberg (EB)
Tough Oil: Five public health challenges of petroleum scarcity by Mike Field (EB)
Food:
Food Matters
First 8 Minutes
Music:
Discussion about the future of Bluegrass:
Death of Traditional Bluegrass? by Travers Chandler
They’re Changing MY Music by Cliff Abbott
Is the War on Terror a Hoax? by Paul Craig Roberts
Economy:
Dr. Steve Keen on debunking economics by Aaron Wissner (EB)
Vanity Fair: California and Bust (via Rod Dreher)
Prophets Of Doom: 12 Shocking Quotes From Insiders About The Horrific Economic Crisis That Is Almost Here
Defeating the Deficit - David Stockman
Peak Oil:
Crisscrossing the Rubicon of peak oil by Kurt Cobb (EB)
"Drilling Down": Tainter and Patzek tell the energy-complexity story by Gail Tverberg (EB)
Tough Oil: Five public health challenges of petroleum scarcity by Mike Field (EB)
Food:
Food Matters
First 8 Minutes
Music:
Discussion about the future of Bluegrass:
Death of Traditional Bluegrass? by Travers Chandler
They’re Changing MY Music by Cliff Abbott
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