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Radio Host’s On-Air Joke Creates Furor

September 22, 2010
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The lack of sense of humor award for the week goes to numerous listeners to Matt Patrick’s South Bend sports talk radio program. Patrick joked that God struck down Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio last weekend for beating Notre Dame on a fake field goal in the last seconds of a close, hard-fought game. Obviously he was making light of ND fans’ legendary intensity.

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Nationalized Medicine Hits the Silver Screen

September 15, 2010
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John Boot (a pseudonym) recommends a new film, Never Let Me Go, characterizing it as “Huxley meets George Orwell’s Newspeak Dictionary and Tom Wolfe’s ‘starting from zero’.” More here.

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Seinfield Displeased with Gaga’s Poor Manners—and Mets’ Response

September 13, 2010
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“You give people the finger and you get upgraded? Is that the world we’re living in now?” So says appealingly crabby middle-aged man Jerry Seinfeld regarding Lady Gaga. “I can’t believe they put her in my box, which I paid for,” Seinfeld vented.

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Will the Real Sherlock Holmes Please Punch Somebody?

September 11, 2010
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Will the Real Sherlock Holmes Please Punch Somebody?

Would G. K. Chesterton have liked Robert Downey Jr.’s depiction of the great detective in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes? A Chesterton admirer suggests the answer is yes.

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GOP Tops Dems in Primary Voter Turnout

September 8, 2010
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Suggesting a true cultural shift, Republicans voting in this year’s primary elections outnumbered Democrats by four million, the first time the GOP has outdrawn the Dems in statewide primaries in the last eighty years.

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Galaxy Tab to Challenge iPad

September 3, 2010
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Galaxy Tab to Challenge iPad

Samsung is introducing the Galaxy Tab Android tablet computer as a competitor to the iPad. Story here.

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TV’s 2009-10 Primetime Emmys Announced

August 30, 2010
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Here’s everything you could possibly need to know about this year’s Emmy Awards.

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Ebert Under Fire

August 29, 2010
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“I do think it is fair to say that Roger Ebert destroyed film criticism,” says New York Press film critic Armond White. Benjamin Kerstein agrees enthusiastically at Pajamas Media. I say it all goes back to New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael, but her disciple Ebert certainly popularized her philistine leftist approach to film criticism, while lacking her knowledge of cinema and her occasional perceptiveness.

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The Greatness of ‘Hey, Jude’

August 26, 2010
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The Greatness of ‘Hey, Jude’

What’s the greatest Beatles song  of all? Aleks Karnick says it’s “Hey Jude,” at Family scholars.org.

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Jenner Bikini Shoot Raises Some Eyebrows

August 23, 2010
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Jenner Bikini Shoot Raises Some Eyebrows

Fourteen-year-old celebrity manqué Kendall Jenner has posed in a skimpy bikini for a racy photo shoot. Story here. Commentary here.

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Bradbury Praised

August 23, 2010
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National Review celebrates author Ray Bradbury on his 90th birthday. Essay here.

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Moral Imagination in Literature

August 21, 2010
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The Moral Imagination in Literature: The Stories We Tell, the People We Become – An upcoming afternoon conference with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Seattle, WA on October 16, 2010. More information available here.

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