Monday, January 14, 2008

The Problem of Utility

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Stanley Fish started a fairly interesting discussion here , arguing in his usual (and rather glib) contrarian fashion that what he actually ...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

To the man with a hammer

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the whole world looks like a nail. Or, the continuing saga of "What happened in New Hampshire?" "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell M...
Friday, January 11, 2008

War is Peace

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I posted this comment at Eschaton in response to this thread , but I thought I'd bring it over here and expand on it a bit. What's a...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

In Advance of Martin Luther King Day

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More than a week early, but I heard some of this speech on the radio yesterday, and so I looked it up again. It was Dr. King's speech at...

Economics Lessons

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1) Taxes take money out of the economy. (Per the Charlie Gibson school of economic theory ; nobody in the debate raised an eyebrow at this a...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

The Morning After

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I remember an old Peanuts strip where Violet is telling Charlie Brown how her father almost bowled a perfect game the night before. What hap...
Monday, January 07, 2008

It's not over 'til it's over

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This is my favorite depiction of Mary. It's contemporary, so it shows her as a modern teenager. (Apologies for the poor quality of the ...
Sunday, January 06, 2008

Just because it's Epiphany

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And for the excuse to steal this picture from Wounded Bird , who took it from The Pharasaios Journal . Perhaps these words should wait unti...

Epiphany of the Lord-2008

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Isaiah 60:1-6 60:1 Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. 60:2 For darkness shall cover the ea...
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Friday, January 04, 2008

Let them know it's Xmas Time

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I was reading this last night in the New Yorker Christmas Collection. If I recall correctly, it was originally published in 1944. If you ...
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Everything Old Is New Again--Redux

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Starting off 2008 even recycling titles (Blogger tells me I've used variants of this one twice before now). But apropos of the post belo...

Illigitemi non carborundum

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So it's cold enough today to wear a sweatshirt, and I'm wearing the one that says, in Latin (supposedly): "If you can read thi...
Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Speaking of "Mission: Impossible"

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This deserves to be disseminated as widely as possible. Probably it already has, and just hasn't reached my particular backwater eddy y...

Mission: Impossible

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I'm not sure whether Bob Herbert misses the lesson of history arising from 1968, or whether he just runs out of room to develop it; but ...

New Year's Day 2008

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This actually came to mind because of Martin Sheen's rendition, used to close the final "Prairie Home Companion" show of 2007...
Monday, December 31, 2007

"I may make you feel, but I can't make you think."--Jethro Tull

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Alright; for the three people (or so) still checking in to see if I have anything to say about the end of the year: I'm watching " ...