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Daily Archives: May 31, 2009
Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” in the Light of Bruce Hornsby’s “Mandolin Rain”
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Tagged bruce hornsby, Jane Austen, life, literature, love, poetry, pride and prejudice, romance
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Dr. George Tiller Was Guilty of “Nazi stuff”: Did Bill O’Reilly Cross a Line with His Dr. George Tiller Rhetoric, Implying That He Should Be Stopped By Any Means Necessary?
Would it have been murder to kill Auschwitz’s Dr. Josef Mengele? Salon today reminds us that Bill O’Reilly equated Dr. George Tiller with Nazi-levels of atrocity: Tiller’s name first appeared on the Factor on February 25, 2005. Since then, O’Reilly … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, abortion rights, Auschwitz, dr. george tiller, dr. josef mengele, feminism, libertarian, naral, rhetoric, women's rights
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Shakespeare, Ayn Rand, and the Murder of Abortion Clinic Physician, Dr. George Tiller
The Kansas abortion clinic physician, Dr. George Tiller, was murdered today in a church. It’s hard to imagine a more animalistic and nihilistic gesture than to enter a church to murder someone, and it put me in mind of a … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, abortion rights, Ayn Rand, dr. george tiller, feminism, Hamlet, James Dobson, philosophy, pro-choice, pro-life, Shakespeare, women's rights
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Mental Health Break for a Sunday
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Tagged christopher cross, fantasy, life, meditation, mental health break, music, oceanic feelings, sailing, Sunday, the oceanic, Zen
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Quote for a Sunday
Bryan Appleyard on contemporary religion and this modern world: Andrew Brown reports on the rise of Calvinism in China. I don’t think that was in the secular-progressive game plan. It gives a timely endorsement to this book review by John … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, atheist, bryan appleyard, humanism, philosophy, psychology, religion, Richard Dawkins
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Was George Orwell a Clear-Headed Critic of Literature, or Was He Hopelessly Confused About It?
Perhaps something in between. At the New Statesman website, New Yorker staff writer, Keith Gessen, discusses the tensions and contradictions in George Orwell’s writings on literature and the arts. One of the examples that he offers is Orwell’s evaluation of … Continue reading
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Tagged criticism, essays, George Orwell, literary criticism, literature, poems, poetry, Politics, T.S. Eliot, writing
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God is Coke? Is the American Model of God Marketing Spreading Globally?
If religion (as Marx said) is the opiate of the people, then that means that, like Coca-Cola, it can be packaged and marketed to targeted audiences, doesn’t it? John Gray, in a review of a new book (God is Back by … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, America, atheist, Christianity, coke, God, Hinduism, Islam, John Gray, opium, religion
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