Current Affairs
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and how weird that there's a need for it.
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Alabama Number 1!! So many stories like this to choose from. D.J. Fluker: "This is better than Christmas."
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This will be brief, because I spent most of this afternoon and evening at the hospital where my daughter Ellen had just given birth to my newest grandchild, James Lucas Tynes. Mother and son are doing fine. Second Thoughts About Christopher Hitchens A few weeks ago I wrote a sort of obituary for Hitchens in which,…
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Sunday Night Journal — January 1, 2012 I've seen a couple of cartoons in the past few days making fun of the arbitrary designation of one day in the year as its beginning, and a moment for new starts and second chances. I normally think such spoilsport demystifying is petty, but I'm a little more…
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…if the signals came back with comments. Update: to save you the trouble of finding out from the comments: I fell for an out-of-season April Fool's joke. Bah.
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Sunday Night Journal — December 18, 2011 At least half the Christian and/or conservative bloggers and pundits will have something to say on the passing of Mr. Hitchens, and most of it will be somewhere between mildly sympathetic and adoring. This is a curious phenomenon, because he was not a conservative, and he was an…
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I think most people my age and older, and perhaps down to ten years or so younger, immediately associate the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with this date. Those who actually remember the day, and the ensuing war, are growing fewer and fewer. Those of us born within the following ten years or so grew…
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It's definitely happening, has been happening for some time, and most reasonable people think it's a bad thing. But it's not the simple phenomenon that the Occupy protesters and others make it out to be. Bill Gates didn't become a billionaire by grinding the faces of the poor, or by grabbing up most of some…
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In The New Yorker, by far the most fascinating thing I've read about OWS. Speaking of the movement a few days ago, I said "After all, if you want people to buy your product, you have to advertise." And I thought I was pointing out an irony. Not at all: it was from the very…
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Oh, the waste! (I do not in fact have any real opinion about the substance in question; it's just so odd in a very English way that I can't resist making fun of it.)
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