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I’ve been over at that nursing blog again (NursingDaze). Here are some quotes about a Norwegian philosopher-nurse justifying compassion as a basic value. Kari Martinsen is an intense Norwegian nurse

Egalitarian: adj. affirming political, economic, and social equality for all [< Fr. egalite] Defined that way, I’d have some problems with the idea, unless we’re pretty careful how we define “equality”. But

We watched “Entertaining Angels” last night for the third or fourth time. It’s not current angel-fad fluff. It follows Dorothy Day through her early life – very energetic

I promised to share some responses I got in church when I read two lists of questions from the pulpit a couple of weeks ago. (The two lists are

Nelson attracted a lot of Republicans here in McCook today for a campaign kick-off rally. I could see 70 or so in the cafe and there were probably a

Vince Powers of Lincoln, NE posted this awesome list of quotes from the ranting rightists. Oops, these are the true media elite speaking, so I guess we have to

We watched the movie Bob Roberts last night. Netflix’s review calls the movie “goofy.” Wrong word. This fictional candidate for US Senate from Pennsylvania had today’s neo-fascist (self-described neo-con

Bill Coe of Max (in far southwest Nebraska) sent me this photo, taken this morning, of Comet enjoying the week in which Spring begins. Good news for Comet (and

Sermon Title: What Should We Emphasize In Order to Promote True Christianity in This Country? I “preached” Sunday. (Some say what I do is not really “preaching”, but that’s another

I found this in David McCullough’s 1992 biography Truman several years ago and put it into a little prayer book I made for myself. Of Truman’s high school years McCullough writes,

In the appropriately inaccurate, or rightly wrong category: Correction: In the original version of this report, Newsweek misquoted [Jerry] Falwell as referring to ‘assault ministry.’ In fact, Falwell was referring to

The Bible fairly often makes a direct connection between the desolation of a land (and its people – and, obviously, its economic life) and moral corruption in the people’s prior

Here’s a quote from Cindy Sheehan, via Information Clearing House. She has an ability to put what she’s feeling into words, and not waste a bunch of words in

Here’s a letter I sent to the editor of the McCook Daily Gazette. It was published Thursday. I think the prominence of someone like Rush Limbaugh is a

Tom Tomorrow’s “This Modern World” is not one of my favorite cartoons – after all, there’s no visual art involved. But this is sickeningly wise and prescient. This