“Oh dear. The need to know the news every day is a nervous disorder.” — Michael Oakeshott
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Roger Ebert tears apart the self-indulgent, vapid and materialistic “Sex and the City” franchise while enjoying every written word in the process. The man knows life is too short for his readers to waste their time sitting through such a film. Thanks to Ebert for doing it for us.
The Cluelessness of the Catholic Church Knows No Bounds -
Nickolas Kristof writes in Thursday’s New York Times about the cold hearted, bureaucratic and out of touch Catholic Church as another voice of compassion is silenced in the name of rigid dogmatic lunacy.
Yes this chart has been all over the Internet, but it bears repeating.
A windy day at Stinson Beach.
The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment -
I finally got around to reading Peter Beinart’s piece on the failure of the modern Zionist movement to appeal to a younger generation of liberal American Jews. I recommend it to anyone interested in the future of the Israeli State, regardless of your politics. The devolution of the Isreali State into one more conservative, less concerned with minority rights, and ultimately less democratic is truly worrying.
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