Three Links (Vol. 16)

December 22, 2008, 12:03 pm; posted by
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Obviously these’ll be a light next few weeks…

— Here’s a weird news quiz, recapping some of the odder stories from 2008. I got 19 out of 23 right, which scares me. I guessed on a bunch, honest!

— I love this Joseph Bottum piece from First Things, reprinted from Christmas 2006, about (to varying degrees) guilt, cell phones, winter, Manhattan, and the human condition. “What would genuine innocence look like if it ever came into the world? I know the answer my faith calls me to believe: like a child born in a cattle shed. But to understand why that is an answer, to see it clearly, we are also compelled to know our guilt for the world, to feel it all the way to the bottom.”

— And just in time for the procrastinating Christmas shopper: ornate, hand-crafted, floral URINALS??


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2 Comments to “Three Links (Vol. 16)”

  1. David on December 22nd, 2008 5:26 pm

    11/23

  2. Connie Maxon on December 23rd, 2008 10:16 am

    Yeah, 11/23 too. I was so close on some….

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