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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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A week or two ago in the comments on a previous post (I think it was the one about introverts) we were discussing dogs and cats, and the fact that some people are dog people and some are cat people. I said that I was of neither party. That was inaccurate. It would be more…
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