Or why is Milton’s Satan more interesting as a character than his God? Or why is Dante’s Inferno more entertaining than his Paradiso? Why, in general, are villains more compelling in literature, while the good guys tend to seem stereotyped and bland? (Though, as C.
If any of you see the new Batman movie this weekend, please report. Tell the rest of us if it is worthy of all of the hype. Thank you.
Thanks to Susan a.k.a. Organshoes for alerting us to Jim Pierce’s account of his former atheism. It will be an ongoing thread on his blog, but here are some samples of what he has to say: Atheism is not religion. I know that statement will
I actually went to an All-Star game once, that 2002 game in Milwaukee that ended after 11 innings in the infamous tie. I remember how frustrating that was. This time, though, there would be no tie allowed, and the game went on for 15 innings.
Not only has the Belgian/Brazilian firm InBev bought St. Louis’s Budweiser. Now Miller and Coors have merged and are moving their headquarters to a neutral site: neither Milwaukee nor Colorado but Chicago! Read this . America’s beer cities are no more. I know, the factories
Robert D. Novak tells us about the republication of a book from 1965 by Richard Hofstadter entitled The Paranoid Style in American Politics (Vintage). He described the paranoid politician viewing his adversary as “sinister, ubiquitous, powerful, cruel, sensual, and luxury-loving.” As a liberal, Hofstadter was
Have any of your read the latest product from Christopher Tolkien editing his father’s papers? It’s The Children of Húrin, and it’s well worth reading. It’s not a Silmarilion-like collection of fictional non-fiction, like much of what Christopher has been publishing. Rather, it’s a true
I don’t know what to think about Brett Favre now trying to come out of retirement and how if he does, it probably won’t be for the Packers. I just can’t imagine his playing for, say, Minnesota!
In idly browsing the internet, I came across this description of Booker’s, a bourbon, as observed by a group called the Wine Enthusiasts: A first-rate, multilayered bouquet that includes notes of cocoa, cigar tobacco and paraffin with aromas of caramel corn, cotton candy, oak and
Remember the recent furor over the discovery of the ancient manuscript entitled “The Gospel of Judas”? The media reported that the document presented Judas as a good guy, implying that the church had gotten it wrong over all these centuries and that we would now
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