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The Christian Humanist Podcast- Episode 67.2: Good News for Anxious Christians
- Episode 67.1: The Office of Assertion
- Episode 67.03: The Best Music of 2011
- Episode 67.02: St. Nicholas at Nicea
- Episode 67.01: Singing Faith
- Episode 67: A Christmas Carol
- Episode 66: Desert Island Books
- Episode 65: Academic Conferences
- Episode 64: Environmentalism
- Episode 63.11: Technical Difficulties
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Category Archives: Political Entertainment
The New Abolitionists
I’m not sure why I’ve been exposed to this talking point so often in the last few days, but once again I’m hearing and reading people calling Obama voters pro-abortion voters. ?Some leave the sentence enthymemic, but others go ahead … Continue reading
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On Respect for the Office
I’ll admit that, at this point, nothing about cable-news-era American partisan shenanigans should surprise me.? I’ve seen push polls and astroturf organizing, free speech zones and major party convention speeches involving the word “spitballs.”? And I’ll also admit that, since … Continue reading
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Yet Another Modest Proposal
Arm the Senate! from E.J. Dionne I have to admit a bit of fondness for polemics like this.? There’s not all that much sophisticated thinking to it, just the direct application of strange thinking to commonplace situations.? It’s the simple … Continue reading
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On Killing and Abortion
I’ve heard about but haven’t had much time to think about the recent murder of abortion doctor George Tiller. I know that “Pro-Life” personalities were quick to get in front of television cameras and denounce the crime, and something struck … Continue reading
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Day 83: We Need Answers Now!
The Real Life Ticking Bomb Scenario. Tom Tomorrow put this up a couple weeks ago, but it deserves a look if you’ve not looked yet.
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I scored 93.94%. How about you?
ISI Civic Literacy Quiz 2009 This little quiz took me about ten minutes to finish, and when the quiz revealed the two questions that I missed, I realized I had been gaming the quiz on one of them (answering how … Continue reading
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David Simon on the Fate of the Press
This is a heck of a speech.
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Individuals, Communities, and Other Such Fads
David Brooks – The Long Voyage Home Unlike Brooks, I’m not rooting for the rising-again of the GOP so much as I dread what politics might look like should the Libertarians become the foil of the DNC.? I think that’s … Continue reading
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Nothing to Hide
The ultimate reaping of what one sows: right-wing edition – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com. I have to admit laughing out loud when I read this.? I know that four-year amnesia is common among the noisy class, but these complaints about … Continue reading
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The Last Fact
The Future! (Comics). It looks like the liberal Internet has deemed this meta-critique week, with Greenwald’s piece that I wrote about yesterday leaving the partisan battlefield to comment on journalism as a profession and this Tom Tomorrow cartoon noting the … Continue reading
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Access Journalism and the Medium (or Media?) of Sycophants
The Corruption of the Cocoon Like Binx Bolling in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, one of my hobbies is to read both conservative and liberal texts.? (Because he’s a mid-twentieth-century novel character, he doesn’t do so on the Internet as I … Continue reading
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AM Radio and Christian Catechesis
How Radio Wrecks the Right As many of my readers no doubt know, I was for the period of a year and a half or so simultaneously a contributing writer for the blogs Christian Feminism and Conservative Reformed Mafia.? (The … Continue reading
The Real Kings of the GOP
U.S. Congressman Phil Gingrey Kowtows to AM Radio Hosts Someone asked me recently if I’d heard about this incident, and I hadn’t.? So I read up on it.? And I wanted to laugh, and I wanted to cry. Apparently at … Continue reading
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The Spirit of Monarchy and the Spirit of Republic
Comp class yesterday was quite fun. ?We started out digging into the text of the Declaration of Independence, a document that, for good reasons and bad, has become a sort of canonical document in America, good for quoting and waving … Continue reading
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Horowitz at the MLA
Impasse at MLA Folks who have read my material over at the Conservative Reformed Mafia know that I agreed to participate in an experiment with J. Wizzle (a screen name, of course) in which we both reviewed David Horowitz’s Indoctrination … Continue reading
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Who Gets Paid?
The same political faction that was clamoring to preserve the part of a financial sector bailout package that keeps CEO salaries as high as CEO’s can manage, unhindered by the will of the plebs, mere months ago, is now blocking … Continue reading
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No Eucharist for ANY OF YOU!
SC Priest: No communion for Obama Supporters I have to admit that I’m more conflicted about this story than some of my liberal friends would likely want me to be.? But I do think that the Eucharist is serious enough … Continue reading
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Changing my Name to Chrysler
It appears I jumped too early on the “Changing my Name to Fannie Mae” thing.? If I’d just waited about a week, I could have just posted about auto makers again. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.? And people wonder … Continue reading
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Cute Little Idea
From 52 to 48 with Love Someone mentioned this at work the other day, and I checked it out.? I don’t know that still photos, no matter how clever, can compete with twelve hours (in some areas) of AM radio … Continue reading
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What’s the Matter with Kansas Now?
I know I’m weird for all sorts of reasons, and the most recent is that, after retreating into my paper-grading and preparing for my guest lecture at Emmanuel College the full week before the presidential election, I picked up a … Continue reading
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