• The main reason I haven’t been interested in watching Mad Men is that I was pretty certain it would be impossible for the entertainment industry to produce a tv show set in the late ’50s-early ’60s without including a lot of self-congratulatory stuff about how much more enlightened we are than those pigs. I find it…

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  • Here's an interesting footnote to the last SNJ, on the question of whether I, or anyone else, would have been significantly different as an adult if school hadn't fostered my (one's) laziness etc. The tentative answer would be: no.

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  • And do other people have the same reaction? This picture was in the local paper yesterday. It's the country-ish duo Sugarland performing in Gulf Shores last weekend. I have nothing against them, although I don't know their music. But that hat…I remarked on my annoyance to my wife, and she said "Because it looks too…

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  • There is a great picture attached to this not-so-great story.

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  • Today is also the memorial of Edith Stein, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, who wrote that "being = being-known-by-God."

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  • Today is 8-9-10. Isn't that cool? In the U.S., anyway. I think in Europe it's 9-8-10, right?

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  • Does anybody know how to pronounce "Wycleff Jean"? I mean, the way he would pronounce it.

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  • Possum Playing Possum

    I’ve heard the term “playing possum” all my life, but I’d never seen the thing itself happen until Friday night. I went out as usual with my two dogs, the larger one, Lucy, not on a leash, because she’s pretty obedient, the smaller one, Andy, on a leash, because he isn’t. As we started down…

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  • Weekend Music Another husband and wife team. Karen Peris is as much poet as musician: lyrics here. Much more music, poetry, and information at their web site. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know what I think of them; if not, this review will give you an idea.

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  • From Toward a Truly Free Market: There are certain tendencies in human beings that allow us to make lawlike statements. People do tend to buy more of a product when it is cheaper, and they tend to make more of that product when it is dearer; between these two tendencies, we really can posit supply…

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