The title is from the Leap Day, 2004, post for Academy Awards day.
Two items from December 16, 2007 —
From a photographer's journal — Kofel, Oberammergau, 12/16/07
From this journal — Mad Phaedrus Meets Mad Ezra, 12/16/07
See also yesterday's Rosetta and the Stone and Ross Douthat in today's New York Times —
"Thanks in part to this bunker mentality, American Christianity has become what Hunter calls a 'weak culture'— one that mobilizes but doesn’t convert, alienates rather than seduces, and looks backward toward a lost past instead of forward to a vibrant future. In spite of their numerical strength and reserves of social capital, he argues, the Christian churches are mainly influential only in the 'peripheral areas' of our common life. In the commanding heights of culture, Christianity punches way below its weight."