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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things.
---Thomas Merton

Tag: Pittsburgh sucks

Sisyphus’s Labyrinth

There’s a reason I don’t read newspaper commentary very often, and it isn’t because newsprint smudges my fingers. No, most analytical articles oversimplify and make half-blind conclusions. Sports writing is the most guilty of this - think of all the articles that present a statistic (e.g. UNC is 25-1 in NCAA games [...]

I am Tiger; Hear Me Roar

When I went to Allyn’s last week, two cats were loitering around the patio entrance. I’m not talking jive here, meow; I mean real, furry, nimbly-bimbly cats. They weren’t strays; both had collars. They were quite amiable and I named them Beefeater (who never flinched from his post) and Woman (who [...]