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I listened to this album once and thought “wow, that’s brilliant, in a twisted sort of way.” Then several months went by before I got around to listening to it again, I think partly because I was in no big hurry to revisit the twisted part. When I finally did, I half-expected to change my…
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I'm not going to pretend I'm sorry that Hurrican Ike is not coming here. But I really do feel for the people in its path. As you may or may not know, it's bearing down on Galveston, which was hit by a hurricane in 1900 that resulted in the greatest loss of life of any…
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I walked out the door one day last week and heard a repeated low buzzing sound that I’d never heard before. I finally realized that it was coming from this heron perched in a dead tree across the creek. The normal heron noise is loud and ugly—something like a crow’s call but lower in pitch…
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It seems that Sarah Palin’s nomination has driven the entire country and parts of the rest of the world completely crazy. On the left, the mere sight of her and her family apparently sends some people into a frenzy. Mark Shea and Rod Dreher (see links in sidebar) have been documenting a lot of this.…
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Francesca brought up the topic of the American culture wars yesterday, which I think are pretty puzzling to Europeans, and coincidentally I later read a really good comment on the topic by Pentimento. A big chunk of her post is a quote from Tertium Quid, who blogs at From Burke to Kirk, and you should…
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Arguing Conservatism The ISI (Intercollegiate Studies Institute) put me on its list for review copies of their books a while back, and I haven’t held up my end. I haven’t mentioned them here very often, or written any reviews at all for the local paper, because I haven’t had time to read most of them.…
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My wife recently developed an enthusiasm for feeding the local bird population and put up several feeders, two of which hung from lightweight steel poles. There followed a week or two of coon wars, in which raccoons came at night and pulled down the feeders, opened them up, and ate all the bird seed. Here’s…
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When Ozzie Ozbourne’s guitarist died, Sarah Palin was asked to audition for the job, but Ozzie was afraid of her. The devil went down to Georgia because Sarah Palin had humiliated him in a fiddlin’ contest. Joe Satriani taught Steve Vai, but Sarah Palin taught Joe Satriani. Moreover, Satriani, Vai, and Eric Johnson originally formed…
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(Apologies to my European and other outside-the-USA readers, as this is pretty USA-specific.) These are some of my favorites from a long list of things you might want to know before hearing Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican convention tonight, and certainly before making up your mind about how to vote this fall: Sarah Palin…
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I know, a picture of a drop of water is a cliche, but I like the way you can see the reflection of leaves on the tree (the live oak in our front yard) in it. You might have to click through to the slightly larger version to see that. Too bad it isn’t in…
Light On Dark Water 