buy deltasone prednisone On Sunday I took a trip up to the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. The prison is located on 18,000 acres along the Mississippi River and is often called “The Farm.” It is apparently a lineal descendant of a plantation called Angola whose owner leased convicts from the state to till his land; […]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
The Angola Rodeo.
21-Apr-09War Crimes.
17-Apr-09The release of the torture memos by Obama yesterday was a heroic act in terms of the president’s desire to restore our country’s democracy. It may be the case that torture is democratically acceptable to most Americans – that in fact this country wants to go the way of the Romans, into increased violence and […]
Found on the Sidewalk…
13-Apr-09Bright Week Begins, Lent Ends.
12-Apr-09I just concluded the most successful churchgoing period of my life, and while nothing really ends, Easter marks a turning-point and it is good to look back from here. Lent is almost certainly supposed to be experienced together with Carnival. The extremity of the one makes no sense without its opposite. Carnival exhausts the body […]
The Crossing of the Red Sea.
12-Apr-09There is a lot of narrative in the Scriptures, but the most satisfying and important readings of it will always be spiritual. One way to do this is simply to make all the characters internal. As I heard the reading of the Crossing of the Red Sea last night, I saw it this way: Moses […]
My Favorite Vigil Reading.
11-Apr-09“The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones. And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many bones in the open valley; and lo, […]
Life in the Mountains.
11-Apr-09An album of some of my best photos from life in the mountains is here. I keep on thinking about going back home and being in the mountains again. That nostalgia, coupled with a bit of writer’s block concerning the novel, is making me think about packing up and heading out. We’ll see. Next weekend […]
A Holy Thursday Alliance.
10-Apr-09On this night, in Rome, all the churches throw open their doors and stay open through most of the night, as places to pray. It is quite an event in the city – many churches whose closed doors you passed many a time are open, inviting you to step in. Usually only the altars are […]
Why you shouldn’t make historical movies too soon…
22-Apr-09legit websites to buy Clomiphene Look at all the new material Oliver Stone could have had if he had just waited. It really is astounding how it all comes together. I’ll let Andrew Sullivan do the talking: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/and-where-the-whole-thing-becomes-a-movie-.html#more