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I think most people my age and older, and perhaps down to ten years or so younger, immediately associate the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with this date. Those who actually remember the day, and the ensuing war, are growing fewer and fewer. Those of us born within the following ten years or so grew…
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It's definitely happening, has been happening for some time, and most reasonable people think it's a bad thing. But it's not the simple phenomenon that the Occupy protesters and others make it out to be. Bill Gates didn't become a billionaire by grinding the faces of the poor, or by grabbing up most of some…
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Sunday Night Journal — December 4, 2011 Perhaps you’ve noticed that for some time now I haven’t said much on the subject of movies. Part of the explanation for that is that watching movies is something my wife and I tend to do together, and she’s now in graduate school and has far less free…
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Weekend Music I think this is appropriate for Advent. There are some nice images in the video (along with the lyrics–in Italian).
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You must see and hear this: a sort of online Advent calendar (I know, it doesn't actually start on the first day of Advent) with music. I think the link will take you to day 2 now–be sure to go back and see/hear day 1. (Thanks, ex pat!)
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In The New Yorker, by far the most fascinating thing I've read about OWS. Speaking of the movement a few days ago, I said "After all, if you want people to buy your product, you have to advertise." And I thought I was pointing out an irony. Not at all: it was from the very…
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Oh, the waste! (I do not in fact have any real opinion about the substance in question; it's just so odd in a very English way that I can't resist making fun of it.)
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That's the way it struck me at Mass yesterday. It really wasn't that big a deal, because it really isn't that big a change. Following a few links around the web today on this subject, I found this dreary look into a mentality I haven't paid much attention to in recent years: progressive Catholics angry about…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 27, 2011 About that ballet A month or so ago I wrote about my intention to watch a George Balanchine ballet that was being broadcast on PBS. I recorded it then, and finally found time to watch it this week. I'm sorry to have to report that I didn't really…
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"the right is the party of tragedy" From Reihan Salam at National Review Online. The full sentence: At its best, the right is the party of tragedy and the impossibility of creating a perfectly just human society, but also of optimism about the potential of voluntary cooperation to help us achieve (modest) moral and (immodest)…
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