October 2006
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Frank Zappa: Hot Rats In contrast to last week’s album, this was a pleasant surprise. I must say right off that I had never taken very seriously Zappa’s ambition to be taken very seriously as a musician. Maybe “ambition” is the wrong word, since the general air of dadaist clownishness with which he invested his…
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Read all about it. Of course this is no surprise, even if Dreher's apparent enemy had not been snooping around trying to prove it. A number of Catholics seem outraged by his having kept it a secret for some months. I don't see it that way, and frankly I see this as another lesson in…
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I refer, of course, to Dawn Eden's uncanny ability to write headlines. They're like witty little poems in five or ten words. Like this one. Anyone who reads her blog would guess at once that she's the author of most of the headlines for Touchstone , e.g. the ones you can see right now on…
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Torture: Safe, Legal, and Rare? I dare say not one American in a hundred really understands the legal and diplomatic niceties surrounding the interrogation and detention of suspected terrorists. That in itself ought to be cause for grave concern, because if any people on earth ought to know the mischief that can be done by…
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NEU!: NEU! What a disappointment. I’d been wanting for a while to hear this group. They’re often mentioned as one of the stars of the ‘70s German “krautrock” style, and NEU! was an offshoot of one of those bands, Kraftwerk, which I like quite a bit. And another band at least loosely classified as krautrock,…
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Observable here. And over here, not-Christian. I don't know, maybe she deserves some kind of credit for uniting Hannity and Colmes. I do wonder what this Westboro cult is really worshipping, though. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Seems I was not the only one listening rather closely to Sunday's gospel. Disputations looks at another key implication of the passage. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Gospel of Terror You thought I was going to talk about Islamic terrorism, didn’t you? Sorry—I’m thinking rather of the Gospel of Mark, the verses from chapter 9 which all Catholics heard read at Mass today. They include the warning that it would be better to have a millstone fixed round one’s neck and be…
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