January 2007
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Being a provincialist by both temperament and conviction, I like to support the most local team in bowl games, and, besides, I always find myself hoping the underdog will win in a game where I have no stake. So I was pulling for the Gators in last night's BCS game, even though Ohio State was…
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The Liberal Conservative (3) Here is a shoe. It fits far too many conservatives, I’m afraid, although we don’t like to admit we’re wearing it. Of course it fits most Americans in general, but principled conservatism, and still less Christian faith attempting to work in the world, must find a way to get rid of…
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Roy Buchanan: Sweet Dreams: The Anthology (disc 2) The second disc of this set may be better than the first, overall. It leans toward live tracks, including a few songs that take a bit of nerve to cover because the originals are so very well known: Neil Young’s “Down By The River,” Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey…
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Just when you get ready to fire up your new Large Hadron Collider, here they come with all sorts of silly worries. See Section 6, Safety Concerns. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Losing the Christmas War I don’t mean the Christmas War that pits the ACLU against Fox News in a war of frivolous lawsuits and inflammatory verbiage over carols in public schools, crèches on the town square, and office greetings. That one actually is showing some signs of an unexpected devolution into common sense. I mean…
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