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Rod Dreher
What if airplanes ceased to exist?
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Rod Dreher
The skies over northwestern Europe are largely free of airplanes these days, thanks to the volcano. I remember how strange it was in New York City on the days immediately following 9/11, when you neither saw nor heard aircraft, except for the occasional military plane. Alain de Botton, recently writer-in-residence at London Heathrow, imagines what…
The garden of memory
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Rod Dreher
We spent today at the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, which is out in the northwestern part of Philadelphia. Julie loves horticulture, and has been wanting to get out there for some time. There was a performance of Japanese taiko drummers from Swarthmore College that we wanted to see, which is what got…
Desperate housewife cleaning method
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Rod Dreher
Mrs. Dreher enlists the little ones in helping clean the apartment, e-mailing: I just stuck old socks on their hands, gave them Comet, and turned them loose in the shower. So far, so good.
Cad of the Year
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Rod Dreher
You cannot improve (if that is the word) on the guy arrested for beating up his armless, legless girlfriend: Although Bell had both hands and part of both legs amputated because of a childhood illness, Smith said she can still be violent when she loses her temper. “She’ll swing, push me down and choke me…
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