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Weekend Music I give you permission to laugh at me for this one. I can't really defend it artistically, though I won't apologize for liking the first thirty or forty seconds. Let me explain why I like it so much: Somewhere back in the 1980s, when our children were small, my wife and I discovered…
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Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what [liberalism] really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism. This is from Edward Feser, quoted by Graeme Hunter in Touchstone, in a review of Feser's book the Last Superstion: A Refutation of the New Atheism. I gather…
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Surely you wouldn't quote a Python routine at him, would you? I mean, they must be thoroughly sick of that stuff. Or maybe not. Actually, I'm pretty sure what I would say: nothing. I would pretend not to know who he was, assuming that the last thing he wants is for some stranger to start…
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Sharks leave Vancouver stunned after being done in by weird bounce Another one for which the imaginary story is undoubtedly better than the real one (it's probably sports-related).
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Here’s something a little different in the Dylan birthday tribute line: his Top 10 Most Overlooked Songs. That’s in the opinion of one guy, so naturally no other Dylan fan in the whole wide world will agree with every choice. I have to admit that I haven’t heard them all, and one or two I don’t…
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Harold Camping is a very slow learner. Or maybe just really stubborn. Or, as I suggested before, full of pride.
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…but I couldn't help being amused by the news that two of bin Laden's wives have turned against the third. And also by the joke about him giving his location to the CIA in order to get away from them.
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Sunday Night Journal — May 22, 2011 Now that May 21 has come and gone over the entire world and there can be no trace of hope that Harold Camping's predictions of the apocalypse will come true, most of the world, including me, is having a good laugh about it. But now that it's all…
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Sometimes I'm tempted to have a continuing series of posts with this title, but it might be too depressing even for me. It seems that in California the fraudulent use of handicapped parking spaces is so widespread as to constitute a serious problem. I expect something like that might be true in most places; I've…
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I just returned from Mass. Yes, Saturday evening "vigil" Mass, which I don't really like to attend, but I will have some extenuating family circumstances tomorrow. Besides, my wife had suggested a couple of days ago that it would be a good place to be if the end of the world did actually occur at…
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