Karen Dalton: In My Own Time Karen Dalton is sometimes described as a cult artist, and it was apparently a pretty small cult for many years, as I’m fairly familiar with pop music but as far as I can remember I had never heard her name until a couple of years ago. She was a…

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I ran across something a few days ago that rather took me aback. I have no way now of retracing the steps that got me there, but in the course of following a political discussion I ended up at some left-wing blog that was also, as is too frequently the case, fairly scornful of Christianity.…

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I posted a shorter version of this as a comment over on the Crunchy Con blog yesterday. The topic was the demise of the gatekeepers of news—a few big newspapers and the three major broadcast television networks (before Fox came along). As it happens, I had been planning to post something here on the same…

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Regina Doman sends a link to her discussion of what she expects, or fears, in the movie of Prince Caspian, which, I just learned from her piece, is due out in May. I expect most people who read this blog know that Prince Caspian is the second of C.S. Lewis' Narnia books. I also expect…

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Anti-Clintonism: A Description of the Symptoms This was intended to be a quick post during my lunch break Friday, but it kept growing, so I waited until Sunday to finish it. Dave’s technically-not-a-question (in a comment a few days ago) about the reasons why so many people detest Hillary Clinton so much has had me…

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The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds Ok, I’m a little late in recognizing this album; almost forty-two years late, to be exact. But now, finally, I understand why it’s so highly regarded by so many people—for instance, Paul McCartney. A few words about my reasons for taking so long to get around to it: first, I…

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Daniel’s and Dave’s comments on the “Hillary’s Tears” post below have made me realize that I’ve been mixing up two distinct points about politics and possibly creating some confusion as to what I think. So let me try to clear that up. The more important point is the one I intended to make with that…

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(than the preceding post): Thursday Night Gumbo has a quote from Newman which describes all too many online discussions (well, offline ones as well, I suppose). And Clio has a simple and touching reflection on the death of her mother. I hope that when I’m dying the eternal happiness of the people I love will…

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There is a local figure whom I will not name who publishes a weekly column with the above title. It's become a bit of a joke between me and my wife to use it when we communicate something fairly trivial to each other. In that spirit, I am sharing with the world the fact that…

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