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...Lewis' most fascinating aspect: his posthumous migration from liberal to conservative icon. He was an Anglican whose natural first constituency was the old Protestant denominations. But by the 1960s the mainline's interest had shifted from core orthodoxies to social action. Screwtape, by contrast, advised that to damn a man, "get [him] at first to value social justice ... and then work him on to the stage at which he values Christianity because it may produce social justice...
...Church headquarters in New York City has become irritated with some charity organizers. On one cleanup day, for example, nobody could find the paintbrushes, and everyone sat around eating bagels and chatting. "You want me to clean the bathrooms?" Ramsden asked impatiently. "O.K., but be sure you have the damn bucket here and don't waste my time. I have better things...
...wrote: “Death Cab for Cutie is something different… Life was good again.”In contrast, the weblog Onetwothreego wrote about their latest full-length “Plans,” released just six weeks ago with fiery contempt: “Damn, I’m disappointed by this one. Too bad I already bought tickets to their show on Friday, otherwise I’d have passed. I love this band, too, but the album blows. Too much whining, not enough rocking. Come on, guys!” Some criticized that...
...first e-mail over the list on May 2, the creator complained: “that set up page is so damn confusing...
Last week, President Bush signed a DHS funding bill that includes $7.8 billion for the Coast Guard, $3 billion more than it received in 2001. But the agency--because of its small constituency and growing responsibilities--remains chronically underfunded. "The Coast Guard is a damn good building block, but you can't expect it to do what it did in Katrina on the current budget model it's on," says Stephen Flynn, a former Coast Guard commander who is now an expert in homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Its assets are falling apart," he says...