Category Postcards from Palookaville

At the  end of 2006, as I look back on the year, I repent of my previous view of blogging as a trivial medium.  Here’s what I learned from my various correspondents over the year:

Oh, my.  I seem to be being struck off all manner of Xmas card lists which, thankfully, I was probably never on in the first place. Two clarifications (at the risk of repeating myself) and a further comment: 1. I did…

Oh, my.  I seem to be being struck off all manner of Xmas card lists which, thankfully, I was probably never on in the first place. Two clarifications (at the risk of repeating myself) and a further comment: 1. I did…

My comments on the late RJR have stimulated some feedback.

My comments on the late RJR have stimulated some feedback.

The latest edition of Harper’s Magazine has an article by Jeff Sharlet on how the Christian right is reimagining US history.  R J Rushdoony gets quite a few column inches but Sharlet misses the worst aspect of this man’s history:…

The latest edition of Harper’s Magazine has an article by Jeff Sharlet on how the Christian right is reimagining US history.  R J Rushdoony gets quite a few column inches but Sharlet misses the worst aspect of this man’s history:…

I notice that the bookstore at WTS () is puffing a new book by the late WIlliam Still, flagging it up with a godly puff from Sinclair Ferguson.  Well, Willie made an impact on me too.

I notice that the bookstore at WTS () is puffing a new book by the late WIlliam Still, flagging it up with a godly puff from Sinclair Ferguson.  Well, Willie made an impact on me too.

There’s nothing like my annual alumnus magazine to make me feel a failure.  This year, I read that one of my contemporaries was Rachel Weisz’s boyfriend (!!!); and that two other alumni are responsible for those pillars of cutting-edge literary…