September 2016
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Interesting commentary by Ross Douthat on the effects of liberalism's increasingly tight grip on pop culture. …outside the liberal tent, the feeling of being suffocated by the left’s cultural dominance is turning voting Republican into an act of cultural rebellion — which may be one reason the Obama years, so good for liberalism in the culture,…
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When the Children of Israel left Egypt, the Lord had them stay in Succoth – temporary dwellings. As a reminder of the miracles that happened to them in the desert, during the Exodus, The Children of Israel are commanded, each year, to leave their homes and dwell in Succoth for seven days. They are also…
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Here's a totally cynical view, if you're interested. Cynical and accurate, I'd say.
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For years I have been seeing this poem by Kipling described as having some sort of profound relevance. I read it, and it seemed interesting, but I didn't quite understand who these gods were supposed to be. It was only fairly recently that I learned the answer. A "copybook" in English schools of the time…
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Like many comedians of their era The Three Stooges got their start in vaudeville, and like their contemporaries The Marx Brothers and The Ritz Brothers they came from immigrant Jewish families. Moe and Shemp Howard (Moses and Samuel Horwitz) and Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg) were part of a popular act called Ted Healy and his…
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[This post is going to stay at the top for a week or two. Scroll down for newer posts.] As regular readers of this blog know, I've published a book that contains what I consider to be the best of the Sunday Night Journal, a weekly feature that ran for most of a decade here.…
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My collection of the best of the Sunday Night Journal can be ordered from Amazon, in both paperback and Kindle formats, and from bookstores. Clicking on the cover image below will take you to Amazon. As bookstores have yet to realize that they should stock it, you can make the job of special-ordering it easier…
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Warning: the refrain makes prominent use of "g–d—". I doubt they really mean it or understand what it means, as indeed most of us don't most of the time. See the first comment for a surprising fact about these two young women.
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Folks is not yo' enemy. The devil is yo' enemy. –A preacher I heard on the radio once
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For a long time I've been saying that it was only a matter of time before white people began to band together openly precisely as white people. Only someone who is ignorant either of recent American cultural and political life, or of human nature, or both, should be surprised at this. The writer who calls himself…
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