Dropping back into the Culture Wars

[12/25/11. I can’t believe I wrote this a scant 3 months ago. That issue of Touchtone did a real Huey Long on me, I guess. I leave it here as standing proof that I’m sensitively dependent on initial conditions. Tipsy]

Having announced my withdrawal from the Culture Wars 18 months ago (I actually dropped out before I blogged it), I’m now on the brink of repenting and dropping back in.

What has shaken me up is a feature in Touchstone Magazine‘s 25th anniversary edition, The French Connection, which likens America today not to 1916 Tsarist Russia, but to pre-1789 France. Continue reading “Dropping back into the Culture Wars”

Tasty Tidbits 8/23/11

  1. Tipsier than usual.
  2. A New Title IX Regulation, maybe?
  3. C. Schmoo Lewis.
  4. Exorcising Monsaton.
  5. Romance or marriage?
  6. Poke in eye. (If that doesn’t work, knee in groin?)
  7. Free the Data!
  8. An ocean divides us, but …
  9. Crop failure.
  10. At the corner of time and eternity.

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