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I tend not to bother writing about the standard big controversies of the day. It's not that I don't care, or don't think they're important, but most of what I have to say about them is being said perfectly well by other people, and most people already have well-defined views on them, and many other…
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(Weekend Music) Yes, I know, the weekend is almost over, and I remember that I've posted this before, but I don't have time to write anything except the Sunday journal, which I won't be able to do till later. It's spring here. This will be appropriate for those of you who are already experiencing spring…
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As is so often the case with anything involving computers, this process has taken much longer than expected. And even now, only posts going back to mid-January or so have been converted. The reason for that is…well, never mind, you don't care about the details. Suffice to say that there is a limit, a fairly…
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Prologue One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Epilogue Prologue I wrote this account of my conversion in 1981 and, in one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me, the editor at the time of the National Catholic Register, Francis X. Maier, published the entire thing as a special insert to the…
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(Weekend Music) A few days ago someone wondered why Germans can’t sing. My response: they can, as the video below confirms. The singing doesn’t start until about the 40-second mark. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Here is one of many exhibits illustrating that fact. And yes, I would think so even if this study claimed that Catholics or southerners or people with brown hair are smarter than others. The data may be factual, although even that depends on ill-defined and shifting terms like "liberal" and "conservative." But beyond that, it's…
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These are (currently) things which have appeared in print somewhere, in some cases quite a long time ago. I’ll be adding to them as I get the time and inclination to type them in from their print sources or, in a few cases, harvest them from elsewhere on the web. In time I’ll be adding…
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This is a test of the page facility. Link to another page?
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In celebration of the temporary resolution of the blog "issues," here is the uncharacteristically cheerful Frank Zappa tune from Hot Rats, played by an ensemble led by his son Dweezil. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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