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Well, I found that quotation that I looked for fruitlessly the other day (see this post). It proved to be from Kenneth Minogue, and I used it in the last Sunday Night Journal, two and a half years ago. I think it holds up quite well in relation to recent events.
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Image magazine comes out in favor of the same-sex marriage. I'm really less surprised by the writer's opinion than by his admiration for Justice Kennedy's prose. I wouldn't go as far as the person who said the ruling sounded like something a 17-year-old would post on Facebook, but on the basis of this sample (I
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I'm going to write about Yeats for week 30 (not this weekend, but the next one). Looking around for more information on a particular aspect of his philosophy, I thought I read Yeats's father, John Butler Yeats, was a hamster… The word was actually "barrister."
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Somewhere on this blog I quoted somebody saying something to the effect that it's very important, and requires continual effort, to understand what is really going on in the world. At least I thought I quoted it–I went looking for it, but couldn't find it. I did, however, find the passage below, and I think
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Melodramatic? Yes, I suppose. But I'm afraid that the country is no longer run by people who love it.
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I have, of course, been thinking a lot about the Obergefell decision and its implications. (And by the way–I never really learned very much in my German classes, but doesn't that word at least strongly suggest "fallen over" or "fall over" or something of that sort? Very appropriate if it does.) I don't feel up
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