Sicut Cervus

Palestrina's Sicut cervus, as (spontaneously) performed by the Harvard Glee Club in Limerick, Ireland:

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Andúril

We are now featuring a new blogger: Sword Reforged.

Ahh!

This scares me.

We're neutering ourselves.

Lessons From Monk

There's a great sequence in this one episode of the show Monk.

Monk, a former detective (who happens to be extremely OCD), has been hunting for his wife's murderer. After many years, he finally finds the man (Tennyson) who made the car bomb that killed his wife Trudy.

Tennyson, who is dying of some disease (I forget), is in a hospital bed. He asks Monk for forgiveness.

Monk turns off Tennyson's morphine drip and says, "This is me, turning off your morphine." After a few agonizing seconds, he turns it back on and says, "This is Trudy, the woman you killed, turning it back on."

What a great analogy for God's forgiveness.

Pathetic

So this is what Barack Obama's former pastor thinks is appropriate for Christmas Day service...

For good measure, he also said (screamed), "God D--- America."

Here are some transcripts.

1. Despite Wright's assertion that Barack Obama "ain't rich," Barack Obama makes over a million dollars a year. Does that count as rich?
   
2. Despite Wright's assertion that Barack Obama "ain't white," he is half-white; his mother is from Kansas. Furthermore, his father, Barack Obama, Sr., is actually of Arab descent. So Barack Obama ain't black, either.
3. Does Rev. Wright truly think it appropriate to compare one of his parishioners to Jesus?
4. Could Rev. Wright not find a better topic for his Christmas service than Barack Obama? Like, I don't know, Jesus?
5. Barack Obama has attended Rev. Wright's church (which, amid its "struggle" to end racism in the United States, has ironically chosen for its logo a cross superimposed over Africa) for twenty years. He says he strongly disagrees with Rev. Wright's statements. Then why attend his church? Are there no other churches in Chicago for Senator Obama to attend? Why choose the one in which people applaud when the pastor says "God Damn America"?
6. This man married Barack and Michelle Obama. Do people normally choose insane bigots with whom they "strongly disagree" to marry them?
7. Does Rev. Wright seriously think Hillary Clinton (who, by all accounts, is female) "fits the mold"? Is he completely unaware of the women's rights movement?
   
8. Rev. Wright, if you dislike America so much, why not move to Liberia?
9. Rev. Wright, is it necessary to use phrases like "ridin' dirty" in your sermons?
10. Rev. Wright, do you really think the government created AIDS to kill black people?
11. Jesus is black? Has the reverend ever seen a Jewish person before? Would he like Jesus as much if he were white and born rich?
12. Pearl Harbor was made up by the government, too?
13. The "US of KKKA." Um...which century does he think this is?
14. Does Louis Farrakhan really need a lifetime achievement award from you?
    

This truly frustrates me.

Darth Vader

...Words can't describe...

Social Security

Good luck.

Minotaur

There's just something about minotaurs...

Tortured Logic

'Nuff said.