November 17, 2007

Various & Sundry

It's pretty hard to make Michael Scott a sympathetic figure, but the writers at "The Office" have managed to do so: Scott, in the end, considered his company more trustworthy than his live-in girlfriend. Sad. And as he said, with an unintended double entendre: "You expect to get screwed by a company. You don't expect to get screwed by your girlfriend."
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Amy Welborn has an excellent post up on navigating between despair and the we're-all-good-Catholics-now sentiment.
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Review of Frank Schaeffer's new tell all book, which I just borrowed from the library. Pertinacious Papist mentions it here. Mark Shea writes: "There's definitely a 'Daddy Dearest' edge to what he writes as he labors to exorcise his demons, but he sure can turn pain into comedy."
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An Oirish poem from Google Books:
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Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man in Stained Glass

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