Sunday Night Journal 2012
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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…