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Monthly Archives: November 2004
cult oddness
I seem to be chairing [“a debate on cults”:http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=13684] at the ICA this Sunday, with Jon Ronson and Eileen Barker. Perhaps, by Sunday, I will seem to have thought of something to say. Continue reading
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oh dear
“Kimberley Quinn” is a name free of sin: “Kimberley Fortier” was naughtier. Continue reading
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more with the wacky
Dr Baber “complains”:http://www.thewormbook.com/helmintholog/archives/001331.html#1098 that I am always passing comments on those wacky Americans.[1] Modestly veiled in her comments is a pointer to a “really interesting essay”:http://theenlightenmentproject.blogspot.com/2004/11/red-menace-neopatrimonialism-in.html about the different ways in which the two Americas think of government. She thinks … Continue reading Continue reading
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English manners
An elderly friend came round with her dachshund this morning for coffee and reminiscence with my mother-in-law. I took refuge in the sitting room, leaving the door to my study open; the dachshund, which didn’t seem to like me, trotted … Continue reading Continue reading
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heavily armed Christians
via “boingboing”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/23/praise_the_lord_and_.html comes “this site,”:http://users.frii.com/gosplow/cgsa.html not, so far as I can tell, a parody. bq(loony).. the best of military technology is not readily available to the citizen militiaman, in spite of the fact that the very purpose of the Second … Continue reading Continue reading
Human interface
A freind of mine has an adolescent son with Aspberger’s; something I don’t want to have to imagine. The child said very little until he was three, though he spent a lot of time listening to tapes. Then, one day … Continue reading Continue reading
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There is a God
Heard a wonderful story the other day from my friend Eve, who used to be a very superior bureaucrat in the Church of England. One of the more media-friendly bishops, let’s call him Bill, grew very drunk one day — … Continue reading Continue reading
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But there are also bishops
Up to Glasgow yesterday, for my second failed shortlisting of the year: the next pope programme was up for a Continue reading