Current Affairs
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Apparently she really didn't want to give Mick Jagger a knighthood. (Daily Mail link, so full of pictures of girls in bikinis.) I'd like to think she also objected to Elton John's.
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As anyone who knows me is aware, I don't really need a reason to be melancholy. But I have one today. In spite of its many defects, much too well known to need mentioning, I really love this country, and its future is very much in doubt. Those who refer to it as "the American…
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Gender Studies I was away from Friday afternoon till Monday night and didn't have time for writing. And I have to admit straightaway that it's cheating a bit to call this a Sunday Night Journal, because the pictures below were taken Monday morning. But I don't want to leave a gap in the SNJ series,…
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The news is not unlike the storm, breeding a mood, feeding anxiety, promising the worst and then rolling off into some kind of electronic distance before hammering us. I attempt to bring some balance to my despair of it with such rationalizations as 'Had it been possible in 1599 or just 99 to report what…
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From David French at National Review Online
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Perhaps you've read or heard about this Atlantic piece, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All". It's the cover story of the most recent issue of the magazine, which arrived at our house a couple of weeks ago. I haven't read it yet, but apparently it's aroused quite a controversy, as this topic usually does–"this topic" being…
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Progressive Ironies The past month or so has seen the deaths of two men associated with progressive Catholicism in this area. One was a priest, one was a deacon. I had a slight personal acquaintance with both of them, a bit more so with the deacon, and on the basis of that and of their…
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“Tropical Storm Debby Threatens Louisiana, Florida” (This was supposed to be a link to a CNN story, but first I had the wrong URL in there, and then they changed the headline.)
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At Caelum et Terra and Neo-neocon. Daniel isn't going to like sharing that recommendation with a n**c**, but it's a very fine post: "the love that was always, always there."
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A local doctor runs a low-cost health clinic for people without insurance.
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