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August 2019

August 29, 2019
“Tell us a story.” We asked Dad for a story often and he was ready....
August 28, 2019
I asked  for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...
August 27, 2019
Spoiled Films (Mild Spoilers of Pride and Prejudice Ahead)  Say anything about a film, even...
August 26, 2019
Be Kind, Rewind  If you are a certain age (old), then you recall “videos” ....
August 25, 2019
Christianity is “a strange Asian religion ... grafted onto” Western civilization. The Greek and Roman...
August 24, 2019
On occasion one meets a critic who is thoughtful and argues an old idea in...
August 23, 2019
Friendship is powerful, perhaps the most powerful, of all the loves. David loved Jonathon. Naomi...
August 22, 2019
I read Iliad as a boy . . . Badly. I wished to see Helen,...
August 21, 2019
Now I surely cease my anger; it is not fitting that I be wrathful, unrelenting...
August 20, 2019
He is so unbelievably shallow, he could only be played by Orlando Bloom: Paris of...
August 19, 2019
There was a time when the entire church was one woman and the child in...
August 18, 2019
Thus they tended the funeral of Hector, breaker of horses.* Iliad ends not as at...
August 17, 2019
The missing voice destroyed even the victor. The war lasted year after year, long past...
August 16, 2019
Hats used to make the man until, we are told, John F. Kennedy stopped wearing...
August 15, 2019
Listen to the old men and women, even if they tend to natter.  So the...
August 14, 2019
I asked for guest voices and today I am pleased to introduce a voice that...
August 13, 2019
I asked  for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...
August 12, 2019
Captain Kirk famously went to planet, meeting green women and logical puzzles, but the men...
August 11, 2019
When I called my Dad, he was honest: “That was silly. I thought you knew...
August 10, 2019
Winning can be fatal. No loss is greater than victory secured by exhausting the moral resources...
August 09, 2019
Irony is often the cowardice of intellectuals. Imagine the Big Boss is a horrible tyrant...
August 08, 2019
France may have fallen to Germany in 1940, but at least the French liberals were...
August 07, 2019
Imagine a religious right run by a serial adulterer and a political opportunist. In 1940...
August 06, 2019
He was the Victor of Verdun and if he had died an old man, he...
August 05, 2019
To join Vichy is to survive without pride. Vichy France, is unheroic World War II,...
August 04, 2019
As a boy the Dallas Cowboys were led by the very admirable coach Tom Landry....
August 03, 2019
I asked  for new voices and got some outstanding writers! Today we hear from the...
August 02, 2019
Cry Justice Justice matters, including justice toward those who are poor. This is not a...
August 01, 2019
She is Best.  A daughter turns twenty-two. When she was small, for reasons having to...

July 2019

July 31, 2019
“There is no longer any political question at issue here. This thing cannot be judged...
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