Thursday, December 30, 2010

A Remembrance of Death

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The last summer leaves at last spinning silently down in the grey, misty, dying days of December often remind thoughtful men of their own mo...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Patented Electrical Reading Machine & Moustache Waxer

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Patented Electrical Reading Machine & Moustache Waxer For Christmas long ago my parents gave me a boy’s...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas Among the Sandbags

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Christmas Among the Sandbags An old Navy buddy telephoned me for Christmas, and we marched down memory grinder ...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Advent Rosary

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Advent Rosary Dark Advent is a silent waiting time When autumn chills into pale, year-end days And joy seems smothered by hard-frosting rime...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

False Grit: The Remake of True Grit

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com False Grit True Grit has been remade, and we true-as-blue-steel John Wayne fans are as apoplectic as Yosemite ...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Religious Vocations

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In all of East Texas there are perhaps ten men who have not been called to the Christian ministry, a record matched only in certain counties...

Black Friday -- News from the Front

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Black Friday – News from the Front Once upon a time holidays did not feature casualty lists or after-action rep...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Infallibility of Catholic Bloggers

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Not even the most ego-driven Bishop of Rome in the Church's 2,000 year history ever claimed the all-encompassing infallibility of a too-...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

The Heartbreak of Superfluous Jails

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Heartbreak of Superfluous Jails Beaumont, Texas has an unused jail sitting in the middle of downtown, and n...

"The Vatican says..."

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Any statement beginning with "The Vatican says..." is almost surely a thumping lie. The Vatican is a city-state; it doesn't s...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

The Government in Your Underwear

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Government in Your Underwear Suppose that you were in World War II. Or perhaps in Korea, Lebanon, V...

The Government in Your Underwear

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Government in Your Underwear Suppose that you were in World War II. Or perhaps in Korea, Lebanon, Viet-Nam...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Cleopatra in Rome

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Cleopatra in Rome In 46 B.C. Cleopatra and her entourage of sycophants and slaves journeyed to Rome to make obe...

Education for the 21st Century

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Bubbles. #2 pencils. Bubbles. #2 pencils. If the greatest challenge to American youth is a blank bubble that needs shading with a #2 pen...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

What's in Your Calendar?

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com What’s in Your Calendar? Ipops and Blueberries are not a part of my life; small electronic gadgets look at me,...

Stalin's Office

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Did Stalin's office staff play "Secret Santa?"
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Coffee, Tea, or Justice?

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Coffee, Tea, or Justice? Even though my favorite waitress owns her little café’ I always tip her anyway – I kno...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Prophet's New Car

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Prophet’s New Car A Florida pastor has demanded that a New Jersey car dealer give him a new car for not bur...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

The Red Menace

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I'm especially proud of the loopy run-on sentence in the third-to-last paragraph. It's not "Who's on First" but, by g...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Love and the Ascending Aorta

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Love and the Ascending Aorta The other day I saw some pink ladies advertising along a street. They were waving...