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Monthly Archives: October 2008

What if Hillary were the nominee?

17-Oct-08

http://thebandchoice.com/f-a-q/        Back in January, I said that if Barack Obama won the Democratic primary, he would be the next president of the United States; and if Hillary Clinton won the primary, the Republican candidate would be the next president.  John McCain’s campaign (which appears to be imploding) combined with economic uncertainty and real widespread dissatisfaction […]

Hillary Clinton’s Living History

17-Oct-08

buy prednisone for dogs online uk        The plan which I conceived, of reading the books ascribed to the major remaining presidential candidates (John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Rodham Clinton), may easily be considered foolish.  It is not at all clear that anyone with any intellectual self-respect should read books like this.  They seem to sell well enough (Clinton and […]

The McCain campaign?

16-Oct-08

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/no-mudslinging.html

It’s an Archetypal Life

16-Oct-08

Is it just me, or has John McCain morphed into Mr. Potter?  “A warped, frustrated old man,” prattling on about how wealth has to come down from the top.  Closed, grasping, acquisitive, trapped in his own self and his own desire for more for himself.  And Obama is becoming our George Bailey – the defender of the […]

Final Presidential Debate Reaction.

16-Oct-08

        This was the first debate I watched on television – I took a trip to the Boiceville Inn, which has a t.v. room for movies and television events.  I don’t know if McCain looked like this before, but his appearance was terrible: he looked uncomfortable, angry, and frustrated.  He looked like he had come […]

Sancte Eustachi, ora pro nobis.

16-Oct-08

The Cursed Homiletic “We”

13-Oct-08

       Everyone agrees that modern homilies are terrible.  Nor has it changed much in recent history – C.S. Lewis, who otherwise seemed a rather contented Christian, talks about how insufferable the homilies were in the Anglican Church.  Catholics often envy even the terrible homilies the Anglicans have.        I cannot say how many times I […]

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

12-Oct-08

       Readers who seek some profound insight into the nature of Afghanistan will probably be disappointed by reading The Kite Runner, a modern novel by Khaled Hosseini.  But the book is a very useful document for exploring the values of the liberal upper class, which one presumes is in large part an American/West-European phenomenon, although […]