Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
When you get the same message from across the political spectrum, it’s a sign that something real may actually be happening.
Liberal Glenn Greenwald:
It is a cult of contrived masculinity whereby people dress up as male archtypes like cowboys, ranchers, and tough guys even though they are nothing of the kind — or prance around [...]
Remember how the Infallible Ratzo gave this dressing down to the Irish bishops in his recent pastoral letter?
It cannot be denied that some of you and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse. Serious mistakes were made in responding to [...]
I haven’t written much about American politics since the Presidential Cup Final last November. That’s not to say I haven’t been watching.
The Obama Administration’s somewhat patchy efforts to undo the many wrongs of the Bush II era (I doubt indefinite detention falls under anyone’s definition of Hope), to rebuild the American economy and to [...]
Another undated entry.
Santa Barbara is two days sailing from here. The size of the place is only about that of Abbyside – a small sea port town and inhabited by bathers in summer time.
San Francisco I like. The view is good out to the sea. It is build [sic] on the side of [...]
The doctor arrived in San Franscisco on June 9th, 1872. The following entry is undated, but lied somewhere between June 8th and July 1st. Having found lodging, Denis sets about looking up contacts from home in hope of finding gainful employment.
San Franscisco, 1872
I am staying at an Irishman’s hotel. As many Irish here as [...]
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