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How tall was James Brown? To some people, it is an extremely contentious question. I must say, it sounds like a more interesting one than the purely speculative volleying between Alabama and Auburn fans about who's going to win next year and how much difference Saban will make. I'm familiar with Atmore. It's just up…
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Being a provincialist by both temperament and conviction, I like to support the most local team in bowl games, and, besides, I always find myself hoping the underdog will win in a game where I have no stake. So I was pulling for the Gators in last night's BCS game, even though Ohio State was…
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The Liberal Conservative (3) Here is a shoe. It fits far too many conservatives, I’m afraid, although we don’t like to admit we’re wearing it. Of course it fits most Americans in general, but principled conservatism, and still less Christian faith attempting to work in the world, must find a way to get rid of…
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Roy Buchanan: Sweet Dreams: The Anthology (disc 2) The second disc of this set may be better than the first, overall. It leans toward live tracks, including a few songs that take a bit of nerve to cover because the originals are so very well known: Neil Young’s “Down By The River,” Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey…
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Just when you get ready to fire up your new Large Hadron Collider, here they come with all sorts of silly worries. See Section 6, Safety Concerns. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Losing the Christmas War I don’t mean the Christmas War that pits the ACLU against Fox News in a war of frivolous lawsuits and inflammatory verbiage over carols in public schools, crèches on the town square, and office greetings. That one actually is showing some signs of an unexpected devolution into common sense. I mean…
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In a few hours I will be going to the cathedral for midnight Mass, very happy that the local television station that ordinarily televises it is not doing so this year. I suppose there’s a good argument for doing it—people who can’t get out and that sort of thing. And a far greater number can…
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My Favorite Christmas Music Music of the Week resumes because I can't let Christmas go by without recommending these albums. Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band: A Tapestry of Carols For reasons that completely escape me, not everybody loves this album as much as I do. How to describe it? A sort of high-spirited band…
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Yes, I said "holiday" on purpose, because there's nothing particularly related to Christmas here, except the vaguely seasonal. I suppose most people have seen this now, as it was circulated last year, but in case you haven't–remember I was saying a few weeks ago that engineers are not dull people? Here's a bit of evidence.…
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The Liberal Conservative (2) Last week I closed by quoting Mark Henrie: “…traditional conservatives endeavor to correct liberalism, not to save it.” Having thought about that a little more, I’d like to elaborate on it. I don’t want to save liberalism as a philosophy, but I do want to save liberal institutions. Back in May,…
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