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Sarah Palin – even less in touch with reality than you thought

January 11, 2010

I’m sorry to pour more cold water on Sam Norton’s love affair with the failed Veep candidate. However, those of us who think she is but loosely connected to the real world have been gifted with yet more evidence. Signing up with Fox News, she says

“I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and [...]

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US politics and the eye of the beholder

January 9, 2010

Checking the blogs today I note two reactions to Peggy Noonan:
Exhibit A: Conservative straight Protestant blogger of no self-declared party affiliation John Hobbins
Once in a while Noonan nails it. This is one of those times
Exhibit B: gay Catholic Conservative blogger and self-professed Republican Andrew Sullivan
She writes this in a newspaper. She states this as fact. [...]

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Palin again: the lies that keep on going

November 21, 2009

I’m aware that for those of you who read Greek that the title of this post is tautologous. However, compared to Andrew Sullivan who is monomaniacal on the subject of Palin, I only mention her occasionally.
The aforementioned Palin-obsessed columnist has a useful collection of Palin’s very strange lies. Read and be baffled by how she [...]

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The American South: plus ça change?

November 3, 2009

I noticed this quote from Marbury via Andrew Sullivan in a post entitled “the past isn’t even past”:

A fairly stunning piece of data:
Obama’s favorability-unfavorability rating in the South is 28-67, while it is 68-23 in the rest of the country.

However, I can’t help also noticing that in the same set of figures from [...]

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I’m sorry, but America needs to get a brain

September 11, 2009

I am stunned tonight to learn that the film Creation (which I am really looking forward to seeing), has not yet got a US distributor. I’d like to thank this helpful review at the Panda’s Thumb for telling me that brain bending fact. I can see no other reason than a general fearfulness that mention [...]

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America: founded by Anglicans (did you know that?)

August 20, 2009

Lisa Miller of Newsweek thinks that the deliberations of Episcopalians really don’t matter. Personally, I not only rather agree that they’re suffering from delusions of soi-disant prophetic self-importance, but I wish a great many other Anglicans (not least those in Nigeria) could be equally indifferent. However in the course of what was otherwise an entirely [...]

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