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Monthly Archives: December 2009

2,010 and all that

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere — Hey Snag wots in the bibl’? Wot are the books ov the bible? Name ‘em, don’t bullshit ME. — If we truly had a separation of church and state — in practice, pun [...]

Humbug

Apart from laziness, it’s often hard to find the time to devote oneself to a serious entry, but as it is the holiday season, and time is moving appreciably slower than normal, I’ll try not to be so serious. This made me laugh: “This information will be stored with an anonymous Genius ID and not [...]

The ballad of Jeff Bridges

This is more or less a reposting (OK, a bit more) of Steve Sailer’s review of Crazy Heart; I haven’t seen the film, or any in a long while, but the idea here is to point out that criticism is important, as also here. Now, I’ll need then to note that despite some friends’ ardor [...]

The beautiful game

So the great Pele called soccer, or football to most of the world. I’ve been whetting the appetite today for World Cup 2010 by checking out FIFA’s site and enjoying highlights from Cups past, such as this amazing goal, my favorite of 2006; it’s too bad the video is choppy, due to someone’s Tivo perhaps, [...]