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> Give me persons in love: they know what I mean. Give me those who yearn; give me those who are hungry; give me those far away in this desert, who are thirsty and sigh for the spring of the eternal country. Give me those kinds of people; they know

What about the fundamental human right to let it all hang out? > Army officials are investigating allegations that members of the celebrated 82nd Airborne Division appear on a gay pornography Web site, a spokeswoman said Friday. > Authorities at Fort Bragg have begun an inquiry into whether the paratroopers&

From this morning's WaPo: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR2006012701588.html] > The [Chinese Communist] party declared rural reform a major goal of its new five-year economic program, which began this month. A five-year-plan? I thought those went out with 22-Skidoo and the

Mellow weekend. Just the way I like 'em. I walked uptown with my 9-year-old to the bookstore after work yesterday. We took the 2-year-old and 10-month-old, too. While checking out, the cash register wouldn't accept my gift certificate for some reason. During the five-minute delay, the baby

Where sin isn't condemned, it is celebrated. Eight people ordered and ate a 100-paddy burger, with cheese [http://whatupwilly.blogspot.com/2006/01/in-n-out-100x100.html]. The story is flying around the Internet now. It's a kid thing, and relatively harmless as far as other kid vices

Send me a water cooler full: > Lady Bird Bio Beer contains aloe vera and medicinal herbs. B. Srinivasa Amarnath claims it has a variety of benefits, starting with fewer hangovers. Recent stories also state the beer can alleviate conditions ranging from asthma to arthritis. > Amarnath previously said that

> Man is truly himself when his body and soul are intimately united; the challenge of eros can be said to be truly overcome when this unification is achieved. Should he aspire to be pure spirit and to reject the flesh as pertaining to his animal nature alone, then spirit

I spend a lot of time ruminating on the problems with conservatism today. So, apparently, does Mark Shea [http://markshea.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_markshea_archive.html#113821798106084166] , who has been reading Rod Dreher's Crunchy Cons [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400050642/thedailyeudem-20]. We'

I found this toward the beginning of the new encyclical. Is it hot in here? > The Greeks–not unlike other cultures–considered eros principally as a kind of intoxication, the overpowering of reason by a “divine madness” which tears man away from his finite existence and enables him, in