2012 archive
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Oct 22 2012
Denying the reality it tries to explain
If massacres like Cromwell’s avert suffering, perhaps they can be justified
By Andrew Brown, Friday 19 October 2012 03.29 EDT The pleasure of reading history is that it’s so much more unexpected than the news. Who would have… [more]
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Oct 22 2012
We are all little girls now
These fondant fancies are baking little girls of us all
By Tanya Gold, Friday 19 October 2012 16.30 EDT The clock is broken. Everything points backwards. It is a truism that these are, for women, conservative times. Female… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/10/22/we-are-all-little-girls-now/
Oct 22 2012
As I ponder the gloom
Tap Dancing at the Cataclysm
By Charles Redfern, 10/15/2012 12:41 pm So there are two ants on a hill, see, and both feel the ground tremble and boom. They notice a gargantuan creature — a sky-high behemoth —… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/10/22/as-i-ponder-the-gloom/
Oct 22 2012
Pornographers of outrage
Pigs to the Lake: The Evangelical Exorcism
By Morgan Guyton, 10/18/2012 5:15 pm In Mark 5, Jesus casts a legion of demons out of a man chained to a graveyard by sending them into a herd of pigs,… [more]
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Oct 21 2012
Feeding the bigotry of the racists
Billy Graham’s lurch towards Mitt Romney risks his legacy
By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Thursday 18 October 2012 07.57 EDT As America’s pastor for the past half century, Billy Graham has earned a reputation as a wise and holy man.… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/10/21/feeding-the-bigotry-of-the-racists/
Oct 13 2012
Why Obama?
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