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Today is her memorial. I've always been very drawn to her and her writings, although I haven't progressed very far in the latter. I devoted this past Lent to reading her and commented on what I had read every Sunday, throughout March and part of April. If anyone is interested, here are links to the…
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My wife and children often voice the suspicion that I am secretly the author of Arlo & Janis. I deny it, but the evidence continues to accumulate. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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The big news about Mel Gibson's drunken anti-Semitic rant has brought out, again, those who thought The Passion of the Christ anti-Semitic, giving them much pleasure. Well, I still deny that the film itself is anti-Semitic in any meaningful way, no matter what resentments are knocking around in Gibson's psyche. I went back and read…
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Or at least a brief lift, from Rod Dreher. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I was too busy with a demanding job and a growing family to listen to much pop music during the 1980s. What I did hear usually came from friends who sent me tapes. But somehow or other I did hear The Dream Academy’s debut single, “Life In A Northern Town. ” I seem to remember…
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Isn't that the way the Wayne's World ad went? I think it applies in all seriousness to this account of the descent into narcissistic lecherous madness of some aging feminists (read the piece before you accuse me of exaggerating). I honestly can't say which of my reactions is stronger: that it's sad, that it's funny,…
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The lad (Harvard '02) is emerging as one of the brightest commentators around. I join what seems to be a vast number of Christian bloggers and pundits cheering this piece in First Things, in which he takes on the assertion that George Bush and the Christian right are on the verge of implementing a theocracy…
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I've posted a new poem. It had been on the shelf for a while and has been made about as presentable as it's ever going to be. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Rod Dreher describes the way Syria resolved a problem with violent Islamists. As I said in a comment at The Dawn Patrol earlier, if Israel were really as ruthless as she is accused of being, these problems would have been "solved" long ago. As it is, Israel is in quite a bind, either allowing the…
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"Yes, I am qualified to beat people up. But I am also intelligent." Not only that, but it sounds like Mr. T's heart is in the right place. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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