Opinion 208: that interview

One thing that bothered me, and one thing that encouraged me, while reading Pope Francis' now infamous interview:
-A bother: he had nothing to say about the rising strength of the PAC-12 Conference this year, which is now clearly only second to the SEC, and perhaps even almost an equal.  I mean, this is as clear as day, and I was disturbed that he just passed over it in silence.  We need to learn to read the signs of our times, your holiness!
-A blessing: he didn't condemn heavy drinking, as far as I could tell.

Opinion 207: An Ode to Futility

 
 I have now spent just over two years reading Heidegger's Being and Time.  Along the way I have read two guides and commentaries on the text and have managed to listen to two lecture series on the book, one from Berkley and the other from Harvard.  Two years in, I have just made it to Part Two.

In the meantime I've stopped going to church, began to tolerate seven drinks a day, taken to the cigarette, stopped praying, and developed a coarse mouth. Generally speaking, I have descended into disarray; my moral compass has gone limp and I am plagued with routine bouts of sickness both of the body and mind.

Godammit, Heidegger!  How I love your incomprehensible and clearly destructive ideas!

Opinion 206

The lead-in to a new AFR podcast::
This past September 9, on an extremely sultry evening in Franklin, Tennessee, an ecumenical group of Christians met at the home of a local Orthodox parishioner for Scotch and cigars and to listen to Dr. Clark Carlton speak about the essence and energies of God. 

oh, it is so funny and yet it hurts my heart so.