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Why is this so dang funny? Or, if you don’t think it is, why not? (Hat tip to Will.) Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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There’s a guy up the road in Spanish Fort, a veteran who’s very active in veterans’ affairs, who had a series of “Veterans for McCain” signs on this building (which I think he owns) during the campaign. This appeared the day after the election and I stopped and took a picture of it. Not a…
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I’m not talking about the famous talking horse, but about my uncle, James Edwin Horton, known to his family and many of his friends by the name his farmhands used, Mister Ed. He died this past Saturday, and today is Veteran’s Day, an appropriate time for me to mention him. He was my father’s brother,…
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Before this game recedes too far into history, I want to make it a matter of public record that a little of the credit for Alabama’s victory goes to me. I contributed by not watching the overtime period. When Leigh Tiffin’s last-second field goal attempt was blocked, I left the room and waited for my…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 9, 2008 In the past I’ve done a few posts in which I gave capsule reviews of the movies I’d seen since the last such post. I think the last one was almost a year ago, but I know I’ve posted about a number of specific movies since then—for instance,…
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Procol Harum, “Nothing That I Didn’t Know,” from the partly great album Home. Fairly poor sound, but listenable. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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This is really sweet: From 52 to 48. (Obama got 52% of the popular vote—actually I think it’s up to 53% now.) We love y’all, too. A 48-hour thought on the election: last night my wife and I were both late heading for home and decided (via mobile phone—how times have changed) to meet and…
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I started to add this to the comments on the previous post, in which Dave refers to “glum” conservatives, then amends that to “pessimistic,” but I thought it deserved the visibility of its own post. It’s true that we conservatives have a somewhat pessimistic view of things in general and of human beings in particular;…
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Either I am right and a catastrophe will occur, or it won’t and I’m crazy. Either way the outlook is not so good. —Walker Percy, from Love in the Ruins I’m exaggerating; I don’t really expect a catastrophe in the sense of a sudden and enormous destructive event. But I think we’re heading in a…
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Sehnsucht This is a follow-up to last week’s discussion of C. S. Lewis’s concept of “joy:” “an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.” Someone mentioned that there is a German word, sehnsucht, for this longing, and I have been looking around a bit on the web for more information about…
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