June 2013
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Probably. If you like the series at all, you should see this one. It's one of the better ones. It's called "Intellligent Design," and one of the characters is an advocate of that theory. Nothing much is made of that in the story, so it seems an odd thing to throw in, but the phrase…
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And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his…
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Weekend Music I think I've listened with at least some degree of attention to about half of the cello suites, and have to admit that I haven't warmed up to them on the whole, although some individual movements caught my ear. Last Sunday I listened to the fifth suite, and the sarabande really grabbed me.…
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JEFFREY BROWN: I want to pick up first on what the president was just saying about this issue of couples married in one state moving to a state where perhaps that's not recognized. How big a deal, first, is this patchwork system that we have? WINNIE STACHELBERG: Well, the patchwork system is a very big…
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So says Elizabeth Scalia, and she seems to mean The Party in the sense that it's used in one-party states. It's as good a term as any to refer to the whole amorphous yet clearly identifiable entity that includes the Obama administration, the Democratic Party, the majority of journalists and news outlets, most of academia,…
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For the second time (at least), Justice Kennedy demonstrates that being a fool is no bar to being a Supreme Court Justice.
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That's what they call Dylan's relentless touring. It's been going on for 25 years now, and a couple of publications take notice: The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal. I didn't realize it had been such a conscious artistic choice for him. I've seen three of these 2,500 shows: Pensacola ca. 1992, Lafayette ca. 1998, New Orleans ca.…
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When my wife and I got married she owned a copy of Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex, not to mention several other feminist works of the time, which in retrospect should perhaps have worried me a little. But in the early '70s most college girls with any sort of intellectual inclination read things like…
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Our time is notable for its number of officially educated people who don't know that they don't know what they don't know.
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Weekend Music Because I heard it a few days ago and still have it in my head, and maybe also because it's summer: simple food, simply cooked with natural ingredients and a bit of flair, tasty and satisfying. I could play most of that (with a fair amount of work). It's almost surprising that…
Light On Dark Water 