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‘memba him? Look below the jump to see what he’s looking like today. Holy Cow(boys)! He could stand in for Uncle Jesse on Dukes of Hazzard. Then again, when I get to be his age (68), I plan to let myself go to seed in the same hirsute way. Maybe people will think I’m a…

I was so delighted to read that three of my former editorial board member colleagues at the Dallas Morning News — Colleen McCain Nelson, Bill McKenzie and Tod Robberson — today won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. The project they won for was an ongoing series of editorials about the persistence of poverty in…

UPDATE: My cousin Kevin just e-mailed an old photo of the cabin I talk about in this post, and one of Aunt Lois doing the dishes in her kitchen in the cabin. I’ve posted them below. Nearly 20 years ago, I suppose, I came home from wherever I was living at the time for Thanksgiving…

…at poping, that is. Ross Douthat, the non-ridiculous Catholic on the Times columnist roster, makes an important point that can’t be said often enough: though John Paul II was by far the more charismatic figure, Benedict XVI will likely be remembered as the better pope. Excerpt: So the high-flying John Paul let scandals spread beneath…
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