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Why didn't somebody use "Pluto Under Attack" for the headline of this article? That would've been one to remember. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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The Atlantic has this year-old appraisal of Israel's long-term prospects by Benjamin Schwartz. Summary: not good. I don't have any particular insight into whether the just-signed cease-fire is a good or bad deal, but unless it has some really strong and enforceable measures that will prevent Hezbollah from simply rebuilding and reloading, we will be…
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(I’m really behind on posting these—hope to catch up over the next four or five days.) Ishq: Orchid Ambient music is a guilty pleasure for me. I really can’t approve of the idea of music that isn’t meant to be listened to attentively, music that is, in Brian Eno’s words, “as ignorable as it is…
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I think Amy Welborn is spot on about the widespread sense among faithful Catholics that recent Vatican (including papal) statements on the situation in Lebanon (and other hot spots involving Islam) seem, well, not all that useful. It is decidely painful for me to say such a thing about this pope, for whom I have…
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Today is her memorial. I've always been very drawn to her and her writings, although I haven't progressed very far in the latter. I devoted this past Lent to reading her and commented on what I had read every Sunday, throughout March and part of April. If anyone is interested, here are links to the…
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Masters of War The week was saturated with news of the war in Lebanon, featuring the civilian body count and terrible photographs, and with furious argumentation, on the Internet and elsewhere, as to which side is more right or more wrong. The division emerges clearly once again between those who see Israel and the United…
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My wife and children often voice the suspicion that I am secretly the author of Arlo & Janis. I deny it, but the evidence continues to accumulate. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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The big news about Mel Gibson's drunken anti-Semitic rant has brought out, again, those who thought The Passion of the Christ anti-Semitic, giving them much pleasure. Well, I still deny that the film itself is anti-Semitic in any meaningful way, no matter what resentments are knocking around in Gibson's psyche. I went back and read…
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What Are They Among So Many? There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are they among so many? —John 6:9 War between Israel and Hezbollah, with a particularly heart-rending incident yesterday, as Hezbollah continues its evil but shrewd practice of placing its weapons among civilians; the savage…
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Or at least a brief lift, from Rod Dreher. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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