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Rod Dreher
So much for the European dream
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Rod Dreher
Urbanist Joel Kotkin is not bullish on Europe’s future, especially southern Europe. Excerpt: In stating the case for European superiority, much has been made by boosters of Europe’s different institutional framework, tax or regulatory structure. No question these have advantages and disadvantages compared with those of the United States, but there’s little case for arguing…
Chronic fatigue and allergies
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Rod Dreher
So, I was home from church a second Sunday in a row because of these damned seasonal allergies. I spent much of yesterday, a beautiful Saturday, on the couch, exhausted. I fought off a sinus infection last week that came out of my allergies, and now I’m back to plain old allergies, which make my…
Underwater oil avalanche and a dead zone
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Rod Dreher
With all that oil gushing out of the BP well in the Gulf, haven’t you been wondering where the oil is, and why the slick hasn’t gotten bigger, or started rolling in giant waves onto shore? I have. Well, they may have an answer now. Not good. Not good at all: Scientists are finding enormous…
The futility of condemning porn and violence
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Rod Dreher
Alan Jacobs gave up on a book he was reading because the author made so many porn jokes and references that Jacobs got fed up with it. He observes how many of us, when criticizing stuff like this, can’t help making ironic reference to our own out-of-touchness, as if we were somehow embarrassed by our…
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