These are the only thoughts on Pope Francis I feel capable of writing publicly with any confidence.
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From “An Honest Conversation About Dishonesty”: So again, you say I’ve changed. But I would submit I haven’t. You have. (Or people like you — not truly knowing your past, I’m using you as a stand-in for a type I encounter with great frequency.) I’m still against all the horrible ideas I used to be against. But the terrain changed on me, …
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Now that I have been doing it, I can talk about it. My New Year’s resolution was to read the Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare. A play a week, 38 weeks into 2025.
I’m on schedule! 16 on finishing Merchant today.
Do I recommend it? Yes, yes I do. I honestly find myself choosing to lap up another scene or two of bloodshed or invective rather than scrolling through the glamour of Insta.
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I spent the morning teaching, but I’m watching the playback of the funeral now. Church history is long, and there will be many centuries to determine the legacy of Francis, but now we lay the Holy Father, the successor of St Peter, to rest and there is only prayer and hope in the resurrection. May God bless him and let His light shine upon him, and may He welcome him into the kingdom. Ora pro eo.
Great article as always, although strange to fathom that a 4-5 win season qualifies as "good" season.
One idea regarding the plot: it almost feels like the x-axis should be flipped. It looks like the y-axis represents offense, and so good offense = higher score = to the top of the y-axis. Conversely, the x-axis represents defense, but the good defense = lower Dim1 score = to the left of the chart (hence "good games" go in the top left). Intuitively, it feels like good games should belong in the top right quadrant, and the axis labels could be 'offense' and 'defense' instead of Dim1 and Dim2 (since it's not quite apparent of what a Dim1 = -2.5 score means to me).
Just a thought!
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