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Francesca brought up the topic of the American culture wars yesterday, which I think are pretty puzzling to Europeans, and coincidentally I later read a really good comment on the topic by Pentimento. A big chunk of her post is a quote from Tertium Quid, who blogs at From Burke to Kirk, and you should…
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Arguing Conservatism The ISI (Intercollegiate Studies Institute) put me on its list for review copies of their books a while back, and I haven’t held up my end. I haven’t mentioned them here very often, or written any reviews at all for the local paper, because I haven’t had time to read most of them.…
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I hadn’t heard this for years before this week, but I must have listened to it a lot at a more leisurely time in my life, because it was very familiar to me. I was about to say it was like meeting an old friend, but when one meets an old friend after twenty or…
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My wife recently developed an enthusiasm for feeding the local bird population and put up several feeders, two of which hung from lightweight steel poles. There followed a week or two of coon wars, in which raccoons came at night and pulled down the feeders, opened them up, and ate all the bird seed. Here’s…
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“…a general principle, which comes before us again and again…that God’s Presence is not discerned at the time when it is upon us, but afterwards, when we look back upon what is gone and over.” —Newman
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Well, I don’t get excited about politics and politicians, because I think we have deep cultural problems that aren’t amenable to political solutions. If you want political excitement, visit the political blogs, which are buzzing today with reactions to the speech and with a higher-than-usual level of liberal-conservative Democrat-Republican acrimony. However, I will say that…
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When Ozzie Ozbourne’s guitarist died, Sarah Palin was asked to audition for the job, but Ozzie was afraid of her. The devil went down to Georgia because Sarah Palin had humiliated him in a fiddlin’ contest. Joe Satriani taught Steve Vai, but Sarah Palin taught Joe Satriani. Moreover, Satriani, Vai, and Eric Johnson originally formed…
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(Apologies to my European and other outside-the-USA readers, as this is pretty USA-specific.) These are some of my favorites from a long list of things you might want to know before hearing Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican convention tonight, and certainly before making up your mind about how to vote this fall: Sarah Palin…
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I know, a picture of a drop of water is a cliche, but I like the way you can see the reflection of leaves on the tree (the live oak in our front yard) in it. You might have to click through to the slightly larger version to see that. Too bad it isn’t in…
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Tapeworms and Hurricanes A year or so ago in the waiting room of a doctor’s office I picked up one of the entertainment magazines lying around there (much more interesting to me than, say, Golf World) and read an article about Hugh Laurie, the star of the TV show House. I had never seen the…
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