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Sunday Night Journal — July 10, 2011 This is something I’ve been planning to mention for some months. It’s been quite a while now—I’m not sure I want to remind myself of just how long—since Dale Nelson sent me a copy of his excellent article on Victorian poet Coventry Patmore’s long poem The Angel In…
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The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him whom thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day, he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern worship is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself. —Ambrose Bierce A co-worker lent me a collection of excerpts from Bierce’s journalism, and I’ve…
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You know how sometimes you run across a news story that is simultaneously surprising and not surprising? You can't quite believe people could do wrong so boldly and persistently, and yet on some level you aren't really surprised. Well, the story of Atlanta teachers cheating on their students' standardized tests is one of those for…
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Sunday Night Journal — July 3, 2011 (I was going to write about something else today, but this is something I’ve been thinking about, and it’s appropriate for Independence Day, so I think I’ll go ahead and get it out of the way.) The term “culture war” in this country generally refers to the conflict…
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Craig Burrell has a fascinating review of a book called The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages. It's really an essay on the subject, so expect to spend more time with it than you would on the average blog post, but well worth it. In the comments on any controversial religion-related topic at the…
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Sounds interesting. Not that I need another Internet distraction.
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Weekend Music I've mentioned the eMusic and Amazon free mp3s of which I've collected quite a few. This is one of those. A couple of days ago I was listening, on my way to work, to a fairly random collection of stuff having in common only that I had obtained it around the same time…
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From Smithsonian magazine: In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun called I Aim at the Stars. Comedian Mort Sahl suggested a subtitle: But Sometimes I Hit London. I posted that only because it made me laugh, but it got me to thinking: I grew up near Huntsville, Alabama,…
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