Daily Archive: July 13, 2009
Academic obscurantism for the sake of . . . what?
Among other relics from middle school, my CD case still contains well-worn copies of both Pinkerton and The Blue Album, so I read Jeffrey Rosenberg’s Rosenfeld’s undergraduate thesis on Weezer’s odd career arc with...
Roman Holiday
Conor points out that restaurateurs in Rome go out of their way to overcharge tourists:
“But again, if the gentlemen said, ‘I like the way the swastika looked,’ and had clean criminal record, it’s possible we would allow that person in.”
A very frightening article from Salon on Neo-Nazis and the military.
…and again and again and again…
I have joined the increasingly long (2 pages now!) and, as I said before, decreasingly witty list “The World’s Most Deranged Bloggers” thanks to the omnipresent force that is Mark Levin. I am now,...
Correctly Political: “Corner”ing the Market in Catholic teaching
~by jfxgillis I. Now and Then and Now Pope Benedict XVI issued an encyclical this week expressing Church doctrine with respect to the global political economy. I knew it would be described in the...
