November 2006
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I just posted the following over at the Crunchy Con blog, in a discussion about who the 2008 presidential nominees would be. Rod Dreher thinks Obama/Edwards for the Democrats; I doubt it. I'm posting this here, just as a way of officially going on record with my prediction about Hillary, so you can laugh at…
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Once again she puts a movie on our Netflix list because it sounds interesting (or something) and comes up with a real gem: Saints and Soldiers. I had a vague idea that it was about World War II and supposed from the title that it probably involved combat-weary soldiers being assisted (or not) by nuns,…
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Them's your choices at the polls today, at least as far as foreign policy is concerned, as I see it. The Iraq war is a tragic mess and it's hard to justify hope of a decent and stable government emerging there. But as in 2004 the Democrats don't have much to offer except Monday-morning quarterbacking…
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…some parents may get up to all kinds of wild stuff. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Wingless Chickens: Judging the Baby Boomers Upon sitting down to write about this topic, I realized that it’s either too big or too small for a few hundred words. You could easily write a book tracing the roots of contemporary moral confusion back for quite some distance—to the early 20th century with no difficulty at…
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Esolen is always good, and this short piece at the Touchstone blog is better than usual. There's an unforgettable image in the last sentence, which I'm resisting the impulse to include here–better to read the whole thing. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Celebrate it!–24/7 With the Cliche Expert! (By the way, if you're using Firefox, you can get rid of that horrible yellow background: View/Page Style/No style.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Eric Johnson: Live from Austin, Texas Anyone who has a taste for virtuoso rock guitar should own this album. Eric Johnson is one of the great players, and if my limited acquaintance with his studio albums is an accurate sample, he’s one of those atypical rock musicians whose live recordings are actually superior to his…
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