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T&G: Holy Cross students protest war in D.C.
Sponsored by the College Democrats. Where is their Pax Christi these days?

Song for Holy Saturday
By James K. Baxter, the “Walt Whitman of New Zealand.”

Why bother having a resume?
Seth Godin:

Not just for my little internship, but in general. Great people shouldn’t have a resume.

T&G: Vandals strike seven churches
Lousy news. Though this graffito is perfectly in the spirit of Holy Saturday, I think:

Another had “Jesus is dead.”

Feynman chaser
Hadn’t seen this clip in forever! Via Maximum Fun:

One Nation Under Elvis
This is just a great article about why you should respect the South and country music, and how progressives can stop alienating the people who should be key allies:

Another set of questions might be why Dick despises the people and places that spawned the music, and what larger rifts his attitude reveals. Answering them requires digging into the deep history of American music and American race and class wars, and into the broad crises of environmentalism in recent years.

Christian videos
The Miro guys have made a Christian edition of their free video player, pre-loaded with channels of Christian content.

Gitmo letter
Sylvia Jaffee, in this letter to the editor, seems to be complaining about Claire Schaeffer-Duffy’s efforts to close the Guantanamo prison, though the thinking is a bit muddled.
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Panorama
Here is a panorama Tom Lechner put together of one spot on Oregon’s Eagle Creek Trail. Here’s a version at his site that makes the coolness clearer. Tom makes these spherical panoramas by taking photos using a polyhedral jig, as pictured:

Fish
“Put another way, fish are better at math than your three month old kid.”

Related: Niniane eats at a vegan joint and likes it.

Triathlon for leukemia and lymphoma research
Julia is doing a triathlon to raise money for charity. If you’d like to sponsor someone who let me play accordion at her wedding, this is your chance.

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From an interview reprinted in The Sun, April 1993

Luke Janusz: If Christ lived today instead of 2,000 years ago, how do you think he would be regarded by the political establishment?

Fr. Daniel Berrigan: “If Christ lived today?” I thought he was living today.

JPII: The real deal
Scroll halfway down for the full comic.

An extra $1,000,000 for Worcester’s homeless
Good article by Jay Whearly:

The ambitious initiative, announced by the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, is to begin immediately and will initially target 125 people, an estimated 20 percent of Worcester’s chronic homeless population.

[…]

Home Again pulls together the resources of Community Healthlink, Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance, Dismas House, Henry Lee Willis Community Center, Jeremiah’s Inn, and South Middlesex Opportunity Council’s People in Peril Shelter in Worcester. Brook [sic] Doyle, vice president of homeless and detoxification services for Community Healthlink will serve as project director.

Rep. Jim McGovern, Brooke Doyle, Brian Bickford, and Cha-Cha Connor at this year’s Worcester memorial for those who have died homeless.

Sad news from the Columbia, Missouri Catholic Worker
Read the letter:

Those of us who remain are hurting. I have lost my wife. My daughters feel abandoned and betrayed by their mother suddenly moving to another town without telling them when or why. My grandson no longer has his grandmother to dote on him. Other St. Francis CW members feel manipulated and saddened that she refused to confide in us. We don’t know if St. Francis operations in Columbia, MO can survive this crisis and we are struggling.

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WorcesterActivist.org back on its feet
WorcesterActivist.org has been running on a really flaky shared server. After months of wanting to move it, it’s finally moved. Let me know if there is anything wrong (as I expect there is).

Apologizing to the indigenous
Whispers: The Power of “Sorry”:

At a recent Mass to commemorate the 190th anniversary of a California mission built by native converts, the Miwok Indians, Sacramento’s bishop-emeritus apologized for the church’s mistreatment of the early community.

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Cause I can’t live loaded and I can’t live sober
And I’ve been this way since the end of October

–Aimee Mann, “I Was Thinking I Could Clean Up for Christmas”

Bad Christians
The congregation at this lawn church is so cold-hearted that they’ve locked the Holy Family out on Christmas itself! Shame, shame.

Same lawn: “Never leave a snowman behind!”

Longest Night
On December 21, about 50 people (including Rep. Jim McGovern) gathered outside the Worcester Memorial Auditorium and inside the United Congregational Church to remember the 8 people who died homeless in Worcester in 2007.

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This Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is Buy Nothing Day! If you oppose the commercialization of Christmas, for religious or secular reasons, make a statement by not shopping.

One of the best Buy Nothing Day projects ever was Mark Dixon’s 49 hours in Wal-Mart. See also Thoughts on “My 49 Hours at Wal-Mart” and 49 hours at Wal-Mart vs. 39 hours in an abandoned building.

2008 Catholic Worker National Gathering will be in Worcester!
July 9 – 12, 2008, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. See the webpage for more details.
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