Nick Hornby's 31 songs (*songs i've listened too +artists I like but am not sure if I've listened too the songs)

1. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road *
2. Teenage Fanclub - Your Love is the Place That I Come From
3. Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird
4. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker *
5. Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy +
6. Santana - Samba Pa Ti +
7. Rod Stewart - Mama Been on My Mind +
8. Bob Dylan - Can You Please Crawl Out of Your Window? *
9. The Beatles - Rain +
10. Ani DiFranco - You Had Time +
11. Aimee Mann - I've Had It +
12. Paul Westerberg - Born For Me +
13. Suicide - Frankie Teardrop
14. Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough
15. J. Geils Band - First I Look at the Purse
16. Ben Folds Five - Smoke +
17. Badly Drawn Boy - A Minor Incident
18. The Bible - Glorybound
19. Van Morrison -Caravan *
20. Butch Hancock & Marce LaCouture - So I'll Run
21. Gregory Isaacs - Puff the Magic Dragon
22. Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3
23. Richard and Linda Thompson - The Calvary Cross
24. Jackson Brownee - Late For the Sky +
25. Mark Mulcahy - Hey Self-Defeater
26. The Velvelettes - Needle in a Haystack
27. O.V. Wright - Let's Straighten it Out
28. Royksopp - Royksopp's Night Out
29. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
30. Soulwax - No Fun/Push It
31. Patti Smith Group - Pissing in a River +

No Man is a Three Mile Island

Ross recently posted on the realty that wherever we stand in the world our "world" is only three miles. This is the approximate distance of unaided vision by most people in ideal conditions. He then asks the important question of what the political ramifications would be if people strove to live within their three mile bounds. I think if we took seriously our three mile plot of being we would find that our limits are prettylimitless.

(aside) I'm reminded of the film 1900 where the title charcter is a man who lives his entire life on a steamship, one day he ambarks to a life on shore and the man who spent his entire life staring at the atlantis was overwhelmed by manhattan and the sheervastness of the human life that could happen on that tiny island.

I'm one of those Crunchy's (sans modifier) who believe that the most important political issues are environmental and that the primary political question is "who lives downstream from me"? We don't live in a three mile area we live on a planet. I believe that concern for the wider world pushes us back to our three miles and challenges to live ore responsibly in our global connections, and that politics focused on our three mile area pushes us outward towards those who live up and downstream from us.

Top Theology Programs

R.R. Reno does a helpful review in frist things of top places in the country to study theology.
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=447

an unproductive ranting post to welcome myself back

I'm sorry but I just have trouble feeling bad for the people who supported the Iraq war who now feel betrayed because the US hasn't found WMD's and Iraq did not have tiies to Al Qaeda. I'm not the most well read or well educated person in the world and I knew that Saddam and Al Qaeda were at loggerheads, that there probably were no substabtial WMD stock piles in Iraq and, wait for it, Ahmad Chalibi and the Iraqi National Congress weren't to be trusted, because he was wanted for fraud in multiple countries for God sakes. How did I learn these super secret facts I read. I'm going to try to write more about democracy in the coming days specifically in response to Ross' latest post. But let me just say this we can't hold public leaders accountable if we uncritically accept what they say. I can here GWB now "I did not have diplomatic relations with that man...Mr Chalabi"