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And I’m not saying the ACLU are a bunch of Nazis. Actually I’m thinking more along the lines of “commerce succeeds where fascism failed.” (But the ACLU, the militant multiculturalists and secularists, et.al., are helping in their own ways.) http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Deal Hudson, shopping for headphones, introduces the clerk to classical music. It’s touching, and a good indicator of why this music will never die as long as there are people capable of playing it and listening to it. From Terry Teachout, here’s a nice short appreciation of Johnny Mercer (actually from a longer piece which…
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To this. The hypocritical double standard about political participation by religious groups—praiseworthy, “prophetic,” etc. on the left, sinister and unconstitutional on the right—is egregious and intellectually shameful. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Louise asked me, in the comment thread on the previous post, what I thought about Belloc’s The Great Heresies, especially the last chapter. So I re-read that chapter (I had read the book twenty or so years ago, in the 1980s sometime), and I’m impressed by its prophetic insight and accuracy. As I said in…
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Mobile Bay, as seen from the beach near my house on the eastern shore during tropical storm Ida: a few pictures taken about 7 this morning, as the storm was passing over. If it still had an eye, it must have been to the east, because the wind was out of the north. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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…is most unwelcome. Already the former Hurricane Ida has weakened to tropical storm status, though, which is fortunate, because it’s heading straight for us. I don’t really anticipate serious problems, but it’s always possible, because of where I live, that a tree falling in the right place could cut off both my physical and electronic…
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Clare sent me a link to an interesting blog post about a Canadian Catholic’s encounter with the polarization in the American Church: I loved my Canadian theology school and its gentle, very Canadian, refusal to fight over stuff. Not so my American theology school, not so. When I got accepted into its program–and a great…
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I just finished the last episode, and I’m inclined to think so. David Simon says he wanted to do a novel on film. I think he succeeded. Possibly the Great American Novel of its time. But I am subject to enthusiasms, and possibly this one will wear off after a few days or weeks. Update:…
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This is Ellen and her dog Comrade (hers and her husband’s). This is the dog I referred to in a comment, on the dog and cat post below, as “humongous,” a description with which she disagreed. Her theory seems to be that if it can sit on your lap it isn’t humongous. Though he isn’t…
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Andrew Ferguson slams Bob in The Weekly Standard. I don’t really mind him bashing the excessive and uncritical adulation that some people give Dylan. And I don’t at all mind him calling Dylan’s junk what it is. A friend of mine, very much a Dylan fan, once said “Every Dylan album has at least one…
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