Obscure Recognition
Something C. S. Lewis won’t much get noticed for this month: He had an impressive grasp of office politics. We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment. [...]
Outrage: spreading the word
Battlepanda: Outrage: Let’s summarize: Cops mistakenly break down the door of a sleeping man, late at night, as part of drug raid. Turns out, the man wasn’t named in the warrant, and wasn’t a suspect. The man, frigthened for himself and his 18-month old daughter, fires at an intruder who jumps into his bedroom after [...]
Narnia v. Ninnia
BigArmWoman: But I totally do not get the whole “omigod Narnia is, like, a christian allegory disclaimer” thing going on in the press and publicity for the movie. It’s as though these people are shocked that biblical themes ever manage to find their way into literature or something. Which, as a lot of journalists hold [...]