tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post6235112455165602641..comments2023-10-17T14:31:52.102-04:00Comments on Est Quod Est: So, what I've been up toPaulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-87573787242773320722014-03-21T19:25:30.020-04:002014-03-21T19:25:30.020-04:00I guess this passage:
No wrath is more poisonous...I guess this passage: <br /><br /><i>No wrath is more poisonous than the wrath that comes from righteous judgment — I mean, judgment passed on people who really have done terrible wrong. I am reminded of how my wrath at the Catholic bishops over the abuse scandal ate away at my faith like sulfuric acid. It wasn’t that the bishops were undeserving of the wrath of the faithful. I believe they were, and that many of them escaped justice, in this life at least. Yet I also believe that the wrath I could not suppress, because to do so felt like a betrayal of the victims, did those bishops exactly no harm, but nearly destroyed me spiritually. It’s not so much that wrath hid my sins from me in this case (though it certainly might have done) as that it blinded me to the long-term costs to my soul of tendering its white-hot fire in my heart with bellows-blast of fresh indignation.</i><br /><br />from that Dreher piece displays the careful craft of a professional writer these days. It makes my head hurt to figure out what in the wide wide world of sports it is supposed to mean, tho. <br /><br />P.S. On further reflection, that passage conveys the thought "Catholic Church = bad" to the typical <i>TAC</i> trained seal. In which case, he gets his point across perfectly. Look for the payload inside the wrapper, as Keith has taught us.<br /><br />pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-66706470680425427142014-03-21T16:12:21.009-04:002014-03-21T16:12:21.009-04:00Dreher's at it again with his anger towards Ca...Dreher's at it again with his anger towards Catholic Bishops http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-wrathful-fred-phelps/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-66758654220935978512014-03-21T10:52:28.980-04:002014-03-21T10:52:28.980-04:00That stack was composed by an interior designer, n...<i>That stack was composed by an interior designer, not a genuine reader.</i><br /><br />Oh my gosh, so true. It could be an inset pic from a shelter magazine. <i>Southern Living</i> -- "Designing Your Icon Corner" with inset showing "what to put on your occasional table next to your icon corner."Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-55429717347248799852014-03-21T08:15:06.679-04:002014-03-21T08:15:06.679-04:00Maybe Dreher was hoping to go on a TLWORL college ...Maybe Dreher was hoping to go on a TLWORL college tour. But no chance of that if his publisher has to add security costs to the negative net it's already suffering from the book.pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-74619991824310965492014-03-20T23:43:44.799-04:002014-03-20T23:43:44.799-04:00Pik, that's my point entirely. That stack was ...Pik, that's my point entirely. That stack was composed by an interior designer, not a genuine reader. Even if the interior happens to be the pseudo-reader's imagination of what a devoted religious reader's stack of books ought to be.<br /><br />Poor Dreher's life is little more than a clumsily scripted artificial role decorated with hapless human as well as bibliographic props.<br /><br />Keith<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-52031834538764369052014-03-20T22:27:36.182-04:002014-03-20T22:27:36.182-04:00Nothing against any of those books (or books like ...Nothing against any of those books (or books like them) but I would feel better about Dreher if there were an airport detective novel, gun book, Camaro magazine, or something fun like that in that stack. It would make him look just a little bit human or (ahem) a little bit like a guy.<br /><br />Seems to me either he's trying way too hard to impress, or his "reading" is purely for the sake of vanity. pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-59416536977246026522014-03-20T16:43:26.546-04:002014-03-20T16:43:26.546-04:00He did say that he got a pile of books from them. ...He did say that he got a pile of books from them. Makes you wonder...could they be the publisher of his Dante regurgitation?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-26646931832976782732014-03-20T16:42:33.446-04:002014-03-20T16:42:33.446-04:00I don't know who sponsored him, just that it w...I don't know who sponsored him, just that it was in GR or thereabouts.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-63476202825654372632014-03-20T16:34:24.307-04:002014-03-20T16:34:24.307-04:00did he get a gig from acton institute? just so I ...did he get a gig from acton institute? just so I know who to ignore in futurekathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760546833628880462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-72417342860720008412014-03-20T15:08:34.992-04:002014-03-20T15:08:34.992-04:00His hobby horse for today seems to be Stanford Uni...His hobby horse for today seems to be <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/stanford-jim-crow-speech-tax/" rel="nofollow">Stanford University and the $5600 they are charging for security at a lecture being given on campus.</a> He takes umbrage that the University would dare to charge student groups for security at events they hold on campus.<br /><br />Perhaps he is just too lazy to take a look, but if the website is any indication <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/group/SUDPS/" rel="nofollow">it would seem that the local county sheriff is in charge of the university department of public safety</a>, and as such it is the taxpayers who are providing security for these events. Apparently Rod feels that the taxpayers should foot the bill for every student assembly, whether they are partying or listening to a speaker. I have to wonder if the taxpayers there might disagree with him.<br /><br />Ah, but there again, this is just his notebook and not serious journalism. It's not fair to hold him to any kind of standard of accuracy or due diligenceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-89940557209135718982014-03-20T14:49:23.506-04:002014-03-20T14:49:23.506-04:00Keith, that pic is gag-inducing. Also sick-making....Keith, that pic is gag-inducing. Also sick-making. Parson me while I puke. :pDianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-61764661227054395592014-03-20T14:39:47.816-04:002014-03-20T14:39:47.816-04:00Speaking of rich life, I never realized until some...Speaking of rich life, I never realized until someone beat me over the head with <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/get-attachment-181.jpg" rel="nofollow">this carefully staged picture</a> the way a butcher might take you out with a leg of mutton that Rod was a super-duper readerly religious reader of books.<br /><br />See, because, like a child, everyone needs cartoon guidance, let me break the advertisement down for all the drooling morons hunching their way past this comment:<br /><br />- Top of frame: heavy duty reading glasses, for those Big Ideas (whether he actually gets them right or not)<br /><br />- Big Stack-O-Books: because only someone with a small intellectual penis needs to stage his reading for the public to "prove" it<br /><br />- Religious prayer beads in what appears to be quality stone casually draped and descending because - did I mention it? Rod & God are like this, man, probably closer than you & God are, IJS.<br /><br />Me, I don't see why he didn't just have a 6 foot cardboard <a href="http://www.fathead.com/" rel="nofollow">Fathead</a> Jesus made up, grinning into the camera as it gives a big thumbs up with its right hand while holding up a copy of TLWORL with its left. To make sure all the folks in the cheap seats get it, too, you see.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-86687353449641394542014-03-20T14:10:06.326-04:002014-03-20T14:10:06.326-04:00He got another TLWORL speaking engagement. With th...He got another TLWORL speaking engagement. With the paperback release of TLWORL coming up on 4/15, look out for Ruthie to pop up just about anywhere, maybe even as an interpretive character in one of Dante's circles written in by the remaining living one himself.<br /><br />If he can pimp his son in order to serve up a video of Neil DeGrasse Tyson made to look silly in order to boost a Walker Percy vs, science post, a Beatrice-meets-Ruthie can't be far away.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-85267267814281158392014-03-20T14:06:41.677-04:002014-03-20T14:06:41.677-04:00Rod assumes that because rod has a rich life, sill...Rod assumes that because rod has a rich life, sillykathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760546833628880462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-14548367045018402622014-03-20T12:15:21.712-04:002014-03-20T12:15:21.712-04:00Actually, that makes him seem almost human. To me,...Actually, that makes him seem almost human. To me, at least. But then, I'm a dog fanatic, so it's like deep calling to deep, so to speak.<br /><br />OTOH, though...how narcissistic of Rod to assume Roscoe was waiting with baited breath for him and him only. Maybe the pooch loves to be with wifey and kids, too. I mean really.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-88437796106714406632014-03-20T12:13:08.710-04:002014-03-20T12:13:08.710-04:00OK, what's with the LEATHER chair? Since when ...OK, what's with the LEATHER chair? Since when is it CRUNCHY to butcher cows or steers or whatever the heck they are just so you can have a rich, supple, buttery-soft, executive-grade, show-offy armchair??Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15528066705030924413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-3229923579853788832014-03-20T11:46:42.600-04:002014-03-20T11:46:42.600-04:00Just skimming... what's the deal with Grand Ra...Just skimming... what's the deal with Grand Rapids? Weird that I've been up there once a week for the last 2 months and suddenly Dreher is there, too. Is he stalking me?<br /><br />Also... that picture looks like a Simpsons character come to life. Butt ugly.Paulihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-58328782721182200282014-03-20T11:26:49.666-04:002014-03-20T11:26:49.666-04:00"you have a rich life" is rich
I guess ..."you have a rich life" is rich<br /><br />I guess it was only a matter of time before he slipped into mawkish animal sentimentalia.kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760546833628880462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-211358204641233482014-03-19T23:27:33.731-04:002014-03-19T23:27:33.731-04:00Dude, it's like me and Rod could be twins, y&#...Dude, it's like me and Rod could be twins, y'know? But I think Crank would probably eat Fluffy for lunch.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-9012759566875053262014-03-19T20:44:19.513-04:002014-03-19T20:44:19.513-04:00you have a rich life,Keith – wonderful story and w...<a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/your-working-boys-best-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-4695784" rel="nofollow">you have a rich life,</a>Keith – wonderful story and wonderful dog (my dog is pissing on the floor next to my chair now)pikkumattihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04929135762224920473noreply@blogger.com