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A reader mentioned in the comments that you can sing “Amazing Grace” to the tune of “House of the Rising Sun.” Well, I found what may be the definitive version of that, from the Blind Boys of Alabama. Give a listen and see what you think.

Conversion stories don’t come any more compelling or unusual than this one, about a tarot reader who became a Catholic priest: My earliest memories of the occult revolve around an near obsession with the TV shows “Bewitched” and “I Dream of Jeannie.” Nothing exactly dark and loathsome there. However, the idea that it was possible…

The morns are meeker than they were,The nuts are getting brown;The berry’s cheek is plumper,The rose is out of town.The maple wears a gayer scarf,The field a scarlet gown.Lest I should be old-fashioned,I’ll put a trinket on.— Emily Dickinson

Well, hearty congratulations to MCPF Stephen Colbert, for his victory tonight at the Emmy Awards. Stephen (and a few of his helper elves) won the award for Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program. (Couldn’t those dunderheads at the Emmys tell that Stephen’s show is a News And Public Affairs program?) Also of…
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