June 2012
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"He never talks to me!" she said. "He just withdraws into his shell." So she bit off a piece of it. (Hat tip to Neo-neocon.)
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Probably the best thing I've read about The Wire. And also very astute on the condition of our society. Thanks for the link, Grumpy.
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I subscribe to a daily (weekdays) email from the Vatican News Service. It’s mostly a summary of what the Pope has said and done on that day. Sometimes I wish I hadn’t subscribed, because often they’re pretty substantial and can come to seem a burden in the middle of a busy day. More often, though,…
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Weekend Music This is from his most recent album, Bad As Me. If there's anyone reading this who's not a Waits fan and likes this song, let me warn you not to buy the album without hearing the rest of it first. Much of it is as rough and crazy as anything he's ever done.…
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The next civil rights crisis.
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The high ones die, die. They die. You look up and who's there? –John Berryman, Dream Song 36 Berryman wrote that sometime in the late 1950s or early '60s. Well, come to think of it, it must have been no earlier than 1962, when Faulkner died, as the poem seems to have been written after…
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Analysis of radio transmissions previously thought to be irrelevant has some investigators believing that they now have a picture of what happened: a landing on the uninhabited atoll of Nikumaroro, and then…starvation? thirst? drowning? I've always found this story haunting.
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Interesting comments at National Review Online from John O'Sullivan and David Pryce-Jones. I like P-J's closing line: "The British monarchy survives by representing everything the nation once was, and what the British people would plainly wish it still to be." Do they really? A great many do, perhaps. I think the years when O'Sullivan edited…
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At the Grand Babylon “Grand Babylon” was the term Christopher Derrick once used to describe the American luxury hotel. I stayed at one of these for most of the past week, attending a conference for customers of the company that provides the software that supports most of the administrative functions of the college where I'm employed,…
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Much excellent coverage of the Diamond Jubilee from the BBC. I would like to have been there. If I can be excused for using the crude Americanism, she's a class act.
Light On Dark Water 