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7 Quick Takes—05/17/13

— 1 — The “weirdest conference ever” seems to have been ripped right from the pages of a Thomas Pynchon novel. If you’ve ever read Pynchon’s fabulously surreal and satirical The Crying of Lot 49, then...

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7 Quick Takes—05/24/2013

— 1 — The interwebs have been all aflutter of late over Pope Francis’s statement that all are redeemed. HuffPo (in)famously seemed to spin this as an endorsement of universalism, the belief that all...

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7 (Belated) Quick Takes!

— 1 — First and foremost, happy Feast of the Visitation! I particularly love this feast day because the mass reading includes the Magnificat, one of the most wondrous and beautiful of all the passages...

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7 Quick Takes—7/19/2013

— 1 — First and foremost: ironists rejoice! For students of literature—and all pedants everywhere—someone has finally fixed Alanis Morissette’s totally un-ironic song “Ironic.”  If you haven’t already...

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7 Quick Takes—07/26/13

— 1 — I can see the bottom of my bedroom closet floor! I realize that this is hardly news in the life of most folks, but I’m not most folks when it comes to cleaning. (I’ve written previously about my...

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7 Quick Takes, er, Quotes

I’ve been MIA on the blog for some time now (though, on the plus side, I have managed to finish my dissertation prospectus, and I’m halfway through a draft of chapter 1!). But while I’ve been...

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Seven Quick Takes—01/24/14

— 1 — This is what happens when I try and make sensible economic arguments to myself:  “Hmm, what with this polar vortex nonsense—and my neighborhood’s crappy sidewalk maintenance—I’m kidding myself...

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7 Quick Takes—02/07/14—Philosophical Cats Edition!

— 1 — As I violated my 2-post-a-week resolution last week, I figured I should make amends in a manner sensitive to the cultural mores of the internet. Internet,  I present to you by way of apology this...

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