September 2012
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…prepare to lose a few. It's called A Love Story in 22 Pictures, and seriously–if you are somewhere where you would be embarrassed by getting all choked up, wait till some other time to click on that link. (hat tip to National Review Online)
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There's much more to it than meets the eye.
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Politics and Anti-Christ (2) As I said in a sort of disclaimer about last week’s post, the subject was really too big for the work of a few hours. Toward the end I touched on some things that need elaboration, so I’m doing that now. The subject is still too big, but I've covered the…
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Headline from MSNBC: Is Romney off-message about his foreign policy? MSNBC’s Chris Jansing talks with Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, Jackie Kucinich of USA Today and former Bush advisor Mark McKinnon about Mitt Romney’s foreign policy blunders and the unrest in the Middle East. Romney’s blunders?! The determination to talk about Romney rather…
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From John O'Sullivan at National Review Online. Sample: A metaphorical casualty of this crisis — even at this early stage — is the reputation of the Obama administration (and of liberal statecraft in general) for sophistication. Watching its spokesmen such as the hapless Susan Rice vainly seeking to maintain that these riots are solely and…
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Weekend Music I usually do this post on Friday evening, but my attention was occupied by a problem I was having at work until pretty late, and I completely forgot about it until just now when I read this post at All Manner of Thing. So I'll suggest you go over there and have a listen: it's…
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Anti-American fury sweeps Middle East over film Embassies of U.S. and Allies Under Siege In Muslim World etc etc etc. Is there some faction in the Islamic world that wants to make "violent fanatical" a redundant qualifier to "Muslim"? I'm quite sure these riots are reinforcing that perception. There's so much to be said about…
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I was vaguely aware of the existence of the series of murdery mysteries featuring this Swedish detective, but have never read one. The local PBS network has begun showing the BBC productions based on them, and I watched the first one a couple of nights ago. I say "first" but it's actually the first episode…
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If you happened by here between roughly 5:30 and 7:30 U.S. Central Time today, you may have seen a cockroach infestation long list of spam comments. I'm not sure what happened–whether something was wrong with TypePad's spam catcher, or this was just a particularly clever spammer. Generally at least one or two of these get…
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Politics and Anti-Christ This is late because it’s long, and is one of those cases where I bit off a bit more than I could chew in a few hours. If I were a well-known pundit, I would not have written this: the propagandists would immediately accuse me of saying that all Democrats are possessed…
Light On Dark Water 