August 2011
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Peter Hitchens says they're very, very bad. I would be interested in hearing the views of anyone who is there or in contact with people who are. Update: Theodore Dalyrmple thinks the same. But of course he would–like P. Hitchens, he's been playing Jeremiah for years. I may have mentioned this before, but in case I…
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I often bookmark things I read on the net with the intention of posting something about them later, but sometimes I don't get around to it or am too busy, and then I forget about them. Here's one I saved a couple of weeks ago, and had forgotten till just now: Rick Bragg on last spring's…
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Weekend Music I went looking for this Elmore James classic on YouTube a few days ago, and to my surprise found it performed very creditably by a young Finnish woman. Truly, American music has conquered the world. I have to admit, though, that I prefer the original. It just has a flavor that's a…
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Does anybody know what's going on with the web site that once belonged to the old Crisis magazine, then was transmogrified into Inside Catholic, and not too long ago (some months?) reverted to Crisis? I'm asking because Inside Catholic, despite its mildly annoying name, was a pretty good publication which I read regularly. Yes, it was…
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Sunday Night Journal — August 7, 2011 I’m still thinking about the questions raised by Walter McDougall’s piece that I linked to a week or two ago. Not long after that came the news that the Vatican’s envoy to the U.S., Archbishop Pietro Sambi, had died, and his obituary contained these remarks from a 2008…
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See it if you possibly can. I'm not going to say anything more about it now, partly because I'm still pretty close to speechless, but I'm interested in hearing what others have to say about it. And I suppose we have to allow spoilers to have very much discussion. I did write a Sunday night…
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No, they aren't really, but a lot of them act like it. I know people who are otherwise very civilized who seem to unleash some sort of inner beast when the subject of politics comes up; if you disagree with them, you'd best just not talk to them at all on the subject. Here is an interesting…
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Last night my wife and I finally got around to seeing this. It's good. I find that I don't really need to modify anything I said last year in a post about Part 1, or back in 2007 after I'd finished reading the book. Moreover, we're planning to go see The Tree of Life Monday night.…
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Weekend Music I've been busy since Friday morning, and maybe it's too late to do my usual weekend music post, but I've been wanting to post this anyway, so I'll go ahead. Let me warn you: this is a real tear-jerker. Those lines Something as simple as girls and boys gets tossed all around and…
Light On Dark Water 