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Merkle and DeMar
Nothing Bad Will Come from This Technology
Christ Kirk App
We Demand Representation
Toby on the Synagogue Shooting
Now Do this With NFL Linebackers
Be Like Alabama
Serenading Our Cars
Peter Hitchens and I have a running joke/debate over the comparative value of trains or cars as a means of transportation, Peter valuing trains more highly than he ought. I have made the point that Americans have a thing about cars. I mean, we sing songs to them, and about them. We serenade our cars.
I’ll pit this against your car songs any day. And there’s more where that came from. Having spent eleven years of my younger life (ages 11 to 22) relying on Baltimore City’s public transportation for everyday travel, standing on corners in all manner of weather and encountering all manner of human depravity, I’ll stick with cars, but for longer distances, train rides can be blissful. The route between Baltimore and my grandparents’ (now my mother’s) New Hampshire home was nine uninterrupted hours of crochet time. Can’t drive and crochet. Air travel doesn’t have the same relaxation factor. And if crocheting… Read more »
But I’ll also give you another (slightly wicked) selection for your car list.
That piece by Toby is incredibly tin-eared. Can he really not see a difference between a synagogue shooting and street violence in Chicago? Its like asking why people got so upset about 2,991 people dying on 911 when over 3,000 are killed each day in car accidents. Or why did the easter bombings in Sri Lanka get so much press when there were more homicides in the secularist paradises of Cental America that week? Must be the media’s pro-christian bias… Also, this: “The reason this story has legs, the reason the media hyperventilates over this tragedy (and it really was… Read more »
I thought it was just me who was struggling with this piece. He seems to be saying that multiculturalism is bad in itself (not simply bad when it is treated as an idol) and that it naturally results in bad things like people murdering Jews at prayer. Certainly Earnest’s resentment over having to live among people he regarded as alien and inferior contributed to his loathing of the Jews. But I think Toby is overlooking Earnest’s explicitly religious motive for his intended mass slaughter: “for their persecution of Christians of old (including the prophets of ancient Israel—Jeremiah, Isaiah, etc.), members… Read more »
Trains – a transport of delight!!