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October 2018

October 29, 2018

Bob Woodward’s Book: the Up to Date is Dated

Often I wait a bit to read a political book. Media will give me the...

October 25, 2018

A Certain Luminosity: Hanson and String Theory

MMMBop. If you know it, as some of my colleagues do, then you are younger...

October 09, 2018

Disruptive Church (Reading Alan Noble as a Distracted Me 6/8)

I go to a Church that tweaks the liturgy every few centuries, whether it needs...

October 07, 2018

BEWARE THE FALL OF OUR NATION Or Yet Another Very Bad Poem (Something For Fun)

The times, we are told, keep flowing like a river, perhaps the stream we cannot...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

More Tech Than the Enterprise . . .

Captain Kirk could go to planets, I envy that, but the computing power in my...

September 04, 2018

Our Heroes Should Have Included a Cow Doctor (Theobald Smith)

Growing Up Loving Cowboys When I met my first real cowboy at age five, I was...

July 2018

July 08, 2018

The Internet Tyrant (in fact all Tyrants) Hates Quibblers and Wisdom (Summer in the Republic 32)

“It’s just words.” “Beware the quibbles.” When you hear someone impatient with careful thought, defining...

June 2018

June 03, 2018

Gentle Mercy: Paul Simon and Growing Up in America

Tonight I was reminded of my need for mercy through the last tour of singer-song...

May 2018

May 28, 2018

Solo: A Review

Solo is a fine film and that might be good for the Star Wars universe. This...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Musing about Amusing or Comics and Conservatives: Where are they?

If over forty percent of Americans support the President*, why wouldn’t we anticipate a large...

April 28, 2018

Let’s Not Cry Havoc and Let’s Chain the Dogs of War

Once the killing starts, deaths mount. The fringes, especially terrorists on the right, have started...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

Watching Three Billboards with Karen Swallow Prior (with Flannery O’Connor and Buffy the Vampire Slayer!)

Some people are so interesting that anything is better if they are there to talk...

March 27, 2018

“The Emperor Constantine,” Dorothy Sayers, and A Movie on Saint Paul

Dorothy Sayers wrote a nearly forgotten play The Emperor Constantine and reading this fine piece of...

March 24, 2018

You’ve Been Left Behind: Remembering the Larry Norman Song

Satan Rules! It is on a record if you play it backwards! We used to...

March 18, 2018

Three Billboards and Some Orange Juice

The movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri tried too hard to be Best Picture. As a...

March 03, 2018

Game Night: the Youth of Older Middle Age

Game Night is a pleasant date night, if you pay matinee prices and there is the...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

Hope and Billy Graham

She never met Billy Graham, though everyone of our generation knew his name. She is...

February 03, 2018

“The Post” and Our Times

Big business papers like The Post will go all first-amendment when their favored team is...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Jenny Lind and The Greatest Showman on Earth

If at every moment during The Greatest Showman, one forgets the actual P.T. Barnum, then the...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Dear Amazon: Truth and Beauty Available to Ship Prime?

Dear Amazon, I was pleased to receive your recommendation that I purchase beauty and truth...

September 09, 2017

A Very Special Episode: “Blue Bloods” and Social Liberal Privilege

Blue Bloods is so rare one could think it a miracle. There is a Catholic religious...

September 05, 2017

The Unexpected Pleasure of the Vinyl Record

I am sitting listening to Styx sing Come Sail Away on vinyl. This is not a great song. If...

September 01, 2017

Miracles in the Houston Flood

There were miracles in the Houston flood. There was also a natural event where things...

August 2017

August 12, 2017

No: No to Racism, No to the Alt-Right, No to Fascism

Nationalism is not patriotism. "Blood and soil" nationalism has a particularly evil history and in...

July 2017

July 27, 2017

They Took Our Religion and Gave Us Opioids

The great thing about a cruise is meeting people . . . at one point...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Beauty and the Beast: A Response to a Response

Opine and the world opines with you, but attack Beauty and the Beast and you will opine...

May 28, 2017

“Wisdom” from Bud Plays Junior High Football: A Message to our POTUS

This Presidency needs some advice and it is time to look to the President's childhood...

May 16, 2017

The Brilliance of Chopped: A Review

The Chopped Challenge has become part of our home vocabulary. If we get home late from...

March 2017

March 25, 2017

Yesterday I Went to the Circus and Here is What I Learned

I am not a circus person. Fewer and fewer Americans are circus people, but I...

March 24, 2017

Today I Go to the Circus

Right after I write this, I will go the circus and I hope to learn...