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It’s pretty funny, since I’m the one who works in technology, that my wife is more interested in the new hand-held electronic toys than I am. Having procured for herself a bargain-priced iPad (from a relative who no longer wanted it), she passed her Kindle along to me. I don’t like reading on it anywhere…
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After my first day of school in Victoria, my mother was walking me home and I asked, "How long do I have to keep going there?" She said, "About 12 years." I burst into tears and was inconsolable for the rest of the day. from a blog which someone linked to on Facebook yesterday. Is…
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I've been going through the Sunday Night Journal pieces, picking the ones to be included in a book, and have just read this one, which is relevant to the conversation we've been having about where in the popular-to-high-art spectrum great movies lie. It's a review of The Third Man, which despite the intentions expressed in the…
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Smartphones, of course, are not the only crazy-making technology we have to contend with. One day last week I ate lunch at a sports bar of which one whole two-story wall was filled with TV screens, two huge and eight very large. That's a total of ten video screens, which were playing a total of…
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I have resisted the smartphone trend, partly out of general contrary reluctance but more out of parsimony: the dang things are expensive, and they cost a lot to use. I do have a mobile phone. I've had one for something like ten years, since I embarked on a long drive alone and my wife talked…
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"…an infidel and his killer will not meet in Hell." Does he–Omar Bakri, apparently the spiritual director or educator of the Woolwich killer–not realize that that could mean two very different things?
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I've been meaning to write about this for some time, and I find that every time I start collecting my thoughts I discover that events have taken another step. It's dawning on more and more Christians that the movement for homosexual marriage and for approval of homosexuality in general means that the liberal culture is…
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I had a dream last night that was a sort of murder mystery in which I was both the murderer and the detective.
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Weekend Music Today is Dylan's birthday. He's 72. Loudon Wainwright III, as you may know, was one of several artists who were briefly touted as "the new Dylan" in the early 1970s. The kid he refers to in the last verse is presumably Martha Wainwright, herself a worthy artist, I think somewhat less well…
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On the way home from work I listened to the BBC/PRI radio show The World. A BBC foreign affairs writer was interviewed about the Woolwich murders. The interview lasted for somewhere around ten minutes, and the words "Islam" and "Muslim" were never once mentioned. I deplore anti-Islamic hysteria and fear-mongering. But there's nothing to be said…
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