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He was a giant. I don’t have anything in particular to say that isn’t already being said wherever his passing has been noted, but I thought I ought to make some observance of it. If you have time and haven’t read his famous Harvard address, here it is. I’m feeling a little guilty because ISI…
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Ayn Rand, Crank In a passage quoted in Leonard Peikoff’s introduction to Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand reveals that she misunderstands the nature of fiction. She refers to it as “a process of translating the abstract into the concrete,” but that’s not what it is, at all. Another writer for whom English was not his native…
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Ok, I admit I never would have heard this disk if I didn’t have a familial connection to one of the players. And it’s basically not my favorite kind of music, being a free jazz/improv sort of thing (that label doesn’t quite do it justice, but it’s a good place to start). But I’ve really…
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Barb Nicolosi does not like it. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Scully looks good with long hair (but then what woman doesn’t?). Chris Carter is, at the very least, seriously interested in asking serious questions about God within the context of Catholicism. Those are three things you can learn by going to see The X-Files: I Want to Believe. Although it’s not all that great it’s…
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Here’s one of those rare sentences that, in one instant, makes sense of a great many things: Secularism, I submit, is above all a negation of worship. —Alexander Schmemann How much of what is wrong with the modern world is accounted for by this sentence? Almost everything, I’d say. And a bit more: It is…
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Describing, amusingly, five approaches to fasting. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Stephen Colbert has Ayn Rand figured out. http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml I actually had intended to post something serious during my lunch hour but I didn’t have time. Anyway this is more fun. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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From that day at the Gulf a couple of weeks ago. (Click to enlarge) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Both Deal Hudson and self-proclaimed Rightwing Film Geek Victor Morton say it’s actually not too bad. I think I said, in reaction to the trailer, that unless the people who made the trailer were deliberately trying to make the movie look bad, it was going to be pretty terrible. I still don’t think it sounds…
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