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Just a note to say that in an effort to get control of the amount of time I spend online, and to focus on some writing I'm trying to do, I'm making it a rule for myself to stay off the net until noon every day. So I won't see comments made in the morning
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Somewhere or other, sometime or other, I read that G.K. Chesterton, asked whether he was a liberal, answered that he was “the only liberal.” I sometimes feel that way. I long ago acquiesced to the fact that in the American political context I’m more or less correctly classified as a conservative. But as the so-common-as-to-be-hackneyed
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Here's another LP from the closet (not from the Fr. Dorrill collection, most of which is still sitting around in boxes), in response to a conversation I had some weeks ago in which I promised to give it a listen. Elton John's name has come up here once or twice, and I was pretty dismissive.
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I'm told that a local radio host introduced his show that way yesterday. He's referring to the cone on hurricane tracking maps. As of this morning the cone for Hurricane Zeta is narrow and we are not actually in it, according to NOAA. We're in the blue area. If the storm actually follows that track,
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This world is highly lacking in empathy and overflowing with judgemental, apathetic douchebags. It's clear from the context that no irony was intended. Yes, I laughed out loud.
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This piece is actually what I was writing when I started thinking about the so-called baby boomer generation, and the whole generations scheme, which led to a separate post on that theme. More about that further down. A month or two or three ago when this album came out there was a promotional video for
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Three writers at National Review give their opinions on voting for him, or not. I hope these links work. They may be subscriber-only. Yes: Andrew McCarthy No: Ramesh Ponnuru Maybe: Charles Cooke Of the three, I'm most nearly in agreement with Cooke. However, unless something dramatic happens between now and November 3–and I can't imagine
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I've been complaining for a long time–yeah, I know, this sentence could end right there, but I'll continue anyway–I've been complaining for a long time about the "generations" construct which is a sort of pop sociology thing that sometimes seems barely a step up from astrology. This chart, harvested from Wikipedia, sums up the system,
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And part of the reason why the press is doing so much harm by making Trump seem even worse than he is, which is bad enough. (Not that anybody much is listening to me. This blog has an audience numbered in the dozens at best.) But I'll say it again: sow the wind, reap the
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…P.G. Wodehouse comes to me. I wish I could think of a witty completion of that thought, but nothing is coming, so I will just press on with the attempt to write a brief post on this Kindle's simulated keyboard. I discovered twenty-five years or so ago that reading Wodehouse is for me an excellent
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