tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10613195.post111326644753430208..comments2023-11-05T02:58:15.563-08:00Comments on Bliss and the Color Pink: A quickie on the world in the news...more later...an updating entry.Adriana Blisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14120973373594320270noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10613195.post-1113460435611718922005-04-13T23:33:00.000-07:002005-04-13T23:33:00.000-07:00Tamar, so true!Nappy40 and Rick, even though the d...Tamar, so true!<BR/><BR/>Nappy40 and Rick, even though the defense is doing a fabulous job with their cross-examinations, even though they've managed to paint almost every witness as tainted in some manner, the total picture hasn't changed - you have a slew of people testifying to improper behavior with young boys. I think that will cinch a guilty verdict provided the jurors are not starstruck. Which of course, Rick, means you are right. It can go either way, one never knows.<BR/><BR/>Narrator, in the end, I believe it's the assurances religion offers that holds people in its complex embrace.Adriana Blisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14120973373594320270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10613195.post-1113412269867265792005-04-13T10:11:00.000-07:002005-04-13T10:11:00.000-07:00I watched the Pope's funeral from Dublin, a transc...I watched the Pope's funeral from Dublin, a transcendant experience right there. The Catholic Church brings so many mixed emotions in me (in almost every Catholic, I'm sure), but the thing it offers better than almost anything else in "the western world" is a continuity of culture, across oceans and continents, and across the millenia, and we are drawn to that surety in an endlessly unsure world.irasocolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10613195.post-1113403339511576372005-04-13T07:42:00.000-07:002005-04-13T07:42:00.000-07:00Adriana, I think you're right. Michael Jackson is ...Adriana, I think you're right. Michael Jackson is going down. I hope he is.Yogohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17589102735443429743noreply@blogger.com