- Celebrity Mayflower descendents.
- American Missal votive Mass. I love it: the faith using the best of WASPness when it agrees with the faith, and what more than this day, secular but full of religious meaning? Eucharist.
- Donna’s and my Thanksgiving dinner. An Italian-American mix: antipasto and tortellini soup, and then American Thanksgiving. Her dad, the family chef, is second-generation, from ’40s Brooklyn, and the immediate family’s last Italian speaker.
- St Cecilia.
- Derb at Takimag: Waiting for Darwin. All true as long as you’re not deterministic, allowing for individual liberty.
- Today in 1963. President Kennedy. He wasn’t what his father’s PR machine said (that said, I like the father’s America Firstism and the sons’ anti-Communism) and what most Catholics thought, so I would have voted for Nixon (me and Cardinal Spellman vs. the rest of the American church, which was working-class old Democrat), but of course he didn’t deserve to go like that. RIP.
Don't apologize for things you didn't do, to people who don't believe in forgiveness or redemption.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
We gather together
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Re: JFK
ReplyDeleteI opine that JFK's greatness was manufactured by his (or his father's) media handlers. Camelot as myth, not reality. Had he lived, I don't think JFK would have been able to get his Civil Rights legislation passed. He lacked the political skills that LBJ had in abundance. No, I am not a LBJ fan at all! And yes, JFK didn't deserve to die the way he did.
Would JFK have kept the U.S. out of Vietnam the way LBJ failed? I just don't know.
Jim C.