April 2012
-
Dialogue and Motive A few days ago in a comment thread Paul linked to this interesting report on a study which claims to find that conservatives understand the views of liberals better than liberals understand the views of conservatives. I take Studies of this sort in general with a pretty big dose of skepticism—after all,…
-
I'm not calling this Weekend Music because I'm not sure I want to commit myself to doing that post every week. So let's just call it weekend music. I posted this on Facebook the other day as a recommendation apropos the racial tensions in this country. Not that anyone who would have seen it there…
-
Ex-Pat said the other day that there was no hope for Blighty. Things like this make you think it's true. "…the reductio ad absurdum of government paying people to be roving human alarm clocks."
-
Is anybody else who has a gmail account unable to log in to it?
-
Prayer is the breath of the soul. –Benedict XVI
-
Hmm, sounds a bit like the name of a rock band…. But no: Friday will be the first anniversary of the devastating (to put it mildly) tornadoes that hit northern Alabama last year. An old friend of mine, one of a number of people who came to Tuscaloosa for college in the late 1960s and…
-
If you visited here within the past 4 or 5 hours, you saw a post linking to a story about the beating of a white man by a black mob who may have been further inflamed by the Trayvon Martin case. I took the post down because it served no real purpose other than to express my…
-
Notes on a couple of movies I’ve seen recently. Islands in the Stream I saw this movie when it was released in 1976 or 1977 and liked it a great deal. I’ve thought about it occasionally over the years and wanted to see it again. Now I have, and I found it at least as…
-
Not sure if this is going to play correctly–if it doesn’t, go here. That is, if you want to see how to make real gumbo. To my mind the phrase “seafood gumbo” is a little redundant. “Gumbo” is “seafood gumbo” unless you say otherwise. This young priest is at St. Mary’s in Mobile, where I…
-
The death of Levon Helm a day or two ago means that three-fifths of The Band are gone. To my taste, they didn't produce a great deal of great music. But the best of it, created in the space of a few years in the late 1960s, was really great, and extremely influential. I think…
Light On Dark Water 