Yearly Archives: 2006

Election night music

Posted on November 7, 2006 by acb

A glorious song about Ted Haggard here. Let’s see if I can get it onto thinking Anglicans. The chorus goes something like “Meth and man ass, praise the Lord!” Catchy tune, too. Continue reading →

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Never a rat, not scuttling; still wrong

Posted on November 7, 2006 by acb

John Lloyd is a really admirable journalist. I suppose I think that he is the most substantial journalistic supporter of the war: he’s not a drunk; he doesn’t rant or showboat; he’s not unduly impressed by power, but he does … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Tony Judt on anti-anti-Semitism

Posted on November 6, 2006 by acb

to London today, to interview Tony Judt. Very interesting man: one thing, which may not make the interview, that he said when we were discussing American attitudes to Europe and Israel. Since courses in European history became optional twenty five … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Measuring religion

Posted on November 5, 2006 by acb

[Very odd essay] in the Chronicle of Higher Education arguing that we should not measure the effects of religious practice scientifically even though we could. Why this is oddest is that it assumes that no such measurements of religious practice … Continue reading →

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Arrogant, lui?

Posted on November 5, 2006 by acb

“Still, I excuse those who pray for me,” writes Dan Dennett, from his hospital bed in the course of a rather moving and sensible essay about his recent brush with death. Continue reading →

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The Sunday Helmintholog

Posted on November 5, 2006 by acb

Is the Sunday Papers, or something like that: an assortment of short and mostly silly thoughts. Blondes have more fun, according to a couple of ["American researchers, who hypothesise":http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=639045] that (1) Shy people get more drunk than less shy people, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Comment is stuffed

Posted on November 4, 2006 by acb

I can’t get typekey working, so I will just go off to London this evening to see Mary Gauthier at the Roundhouse. Highly recommended. Continue reading →

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Do me a favour, please

Posted on November 3, 2006 by acb

Could people with typekey identities try to post comments? They should go through at once. I can’t work out if I have got this working properly. Continue reading →

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next, a well-known bridge

Posted on November 3, 2006 by acb

Ruth Gledhill gets very aerated about George Carey being banned from Bangor Cathedral, but she misses the real story, which I found on Google. The Dean, or someone, is actually selling the cathedral. Will those liberals stop at nothing? Continue reading →

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And why not?

Posted on November 2, 2006 by acb

Tidying my hard drive, I found a wormseye from earlier this month. So I will put it here, as well: Worm’s Eye, Mon 2 Oct 06 In the house of an old doctor I found I book called “Patients as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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