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Waiting for the Hurricane This will be brief, as I've been busy most of the day making preparations for Tropical Storm Isaac, which is expected to be Hurricane Isaac by the time it makes landfall somewhere along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The tropics have been pretty quiet since Hurricane Katrina in…
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It's so crucial that they be defeated. Of course I do think it's important that one side be defeated in the upcoming election. This is more a comment about the nature of the debate than about the issues.
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Weekend Music I've heard Dar Williams's name here and there, but don't know much about her. This song was a free download at eMusic sometime in the past few months. At one time I had many, many of these that I'd never really listened to, because I always downloaded them without listening to the samples…
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…stands for Anybody But Obama. I haven't said much (have I said anything?) about the election. But I posted a comment at Neo-neocon earlier, and since I spent more time than I had intended on it, and it's a pretty good summary of my view of President Obama and the election, I think I'll reproduce…
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It indicates the approximate location of my house. You will observe that two of the pink-purple lines meet there. I hope this isn't going to be a bad hurricane season. It's been very quiet since Katrina.
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I’m never really sure what to make of these, but this one at the Catholic Herald UK is one of the more remarkable ones I’ve read: “It became painful, because I saw that when I did bad things, I knew that it caused Jesus and the angels actual pain. It hurt them….” “It became evident that the…
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A Few Simple Commands Thursday was the Feast of the Assumption, and I made my way across town to St. Mary of the Visitation, where our little Anglican Use congregation was having Mass at 12:15. I was having an extremely busy day at work, and had trouble getting away. Then the drive took a little…
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Here's some actual testimony in support of my view that people do see in Rand's novels something much less sinister than is exhibited in her philosophy as a whole. Following are excerpts from the comments thread on this CNN story, which itself is a pretty conventional view. Just to make it clear: I think Rand's…
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Weekend Music I probably should have waited for the weekend to write the Krautrock post. So here’s a sort of footnote to it, a Krautrock Klassik. This tune is often compared to Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn,” and one can see why, though in my opinion not as good. I reviewed the album on which it appears back…
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A few months ago I posted something about the curious and (I think) inconsistent affection some Christians have for Ayn Rand. My conjecture was: I’ve suspected that what they, the Christians, do is to separate Rand’s economic ideas from her metaphysics. They read Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead and are thrilled by the achievements of the heroes, and filled…
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