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Weekend Music With ABBA we get not just a married couple, but two married couples. Sad to say, both divorced later. I picked "SOS" because I think it was the first ABBA song I ever heard–either it, or "Waterloo." Those and several other ABBA singles were a breath of fresh air on mainstream radio in…
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"Sending Republicans back into power without a clear mission is like sending teenagers to Vegas for a school trip without a chaperone. Sure, they’ll check out the museums." —Jonah Goldberg
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Our hot water has been off since sometime Saturday evening, because the outlet line split open and started spewing water everywhere. The plumbing company we use couldn’t send anyone to fix it until Wednesday morning, so I’ve been taking cold showers, on the theory that overall it’s less hassle to take a quick cold shower…
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Sunday Night Journal — September 19, 2010 I finished reading N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope some weeks ago, and have been wanting to write about it, but having difficulty finding the time to do so. To let it be the subject of this week’s Sunday Night Journal seemed a way out of the impasse. But…
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Weekend Music Windy and Carl are a husband-and-wife duo who make guitar-based ambient-drone music. There are two videos here because I like the music in the first one, but the visual is just a photo of the album cover, while the combination of video and music in the second one is very appealing.
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A beautiful story about a beautiful person. Hugh Laurie on Wodehouse (in a very Wodehousian style). (hat tip to Karen for the first, Clare for the second)
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This might become a regular feature. Or it might not. *** First: Marianne posted, in a comment, a link to this story about two young American Muslims on a road trip visiting 30 mosques in 30 days (second link is to their blog, if you want to read more). It’s a very refreshing counterbalance to the ugliness that’s been…
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Actually, it's possible that the instructions in this obituary were given not by the deceased but by his relatives, not by him. If so, he's probably really angry now.
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Sunday Night Journal — September 12, 2010 It won’t surprise anyone who’s read much of this series, or of my blog, to hear that I’ve never been one to entertain nostalgic visions of a golden age of childhood and youth. I was always inclined to be melancholy and anxiety-ridden, and that doesn’t make for entirely…
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That was my first reaction to the Cordoba House/Park 51/"ground zero mosque" controversy, and after thinking about it and listening to the arguments on both sides for a week or two, I've come down again pretty strongly on the same position. Last night I was watching the Alabama-Penn State game (24-3, thank you), but I…
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