July 2022
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Which is more likely, that you will be killed by lightning or that you will be killed by an asteroid striking the earth? As you have no doubt guessed, it’s something of a trick question, with the obvious answer being wrong. It has to do with the probability of the event compared to the probability
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Although I liked what I had heard of this band, I hadn’t really given them a close listen until recently, when I finally followed up on Rob G’s praise of them here. I had heard some of their self-titled first album back when it was released in 2006. Those were the glory days of cheap
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This is a little long for a blog post. It wasn't originally intended to be one. It was written almost six months ago and over that time was submitted, in various revisions, to four conservative/Catholic online publications. None of them wanted it (actually, none of them even acknowledged it with a rejection, which I guess
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It's odd to call these "TV shows," as they have so little in common with the sort of thing that the term brings to mind. But anyway: Jim Geraghty of National Review described the fourth and unfortunately not final "season" (see, even that word is not really applicable) of Stranger Things this way, and it's
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Don't be alarmed by the title, which I think is in fact a bit alarming. It strikes our ears as crude, at least, and is the product of a time and place in which Jews were seen as foreign and held in some suspicion, sometimes hostility. The time and place was a small town in
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This was my Fourth of July picture in 2015, not long after the Obergefell decision. It remains appropriate, but the reversal of Roe v. Wade is an occasion of hope that maybe the republic is not done for yet. Whatever you think about abortion, it was a victory for the constitution and therefore for the
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I'm not really up on the lives of celebrities. So when I saw this headline on a news site: Jerry Hall Files for Divorce From Rupert Murdoch I thought "Surely that's not the same Jerry Hall who was Mick Jagger's girlfriend." But it is. I guess I had last heard of her decades ago when
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Kyle Smith of National Review on Radiohead's OK Computer: [Radiohead] don’t seem to grasp that music has to fit in someplace, to play some purpose. It goes with walking (the Beatles), working (Bach), shirking (Yacht rock), driving (the Eighties station), imbibing (country), getting up (pop), getting down (R & B), working out (hard rock, rap), and possibly
Light On Dark Water 