"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Tuesday, August 05, 2003 Odds & Ends: The old Indian Head nickel was not the only US currency to bear the image of a buffalo – so did the 1901 $10 bill * The college named for Lord Jeffrey Amherst (himself a Cromwell to local Indians) is celebrated at Amherstiana, which features "a collection of postcards, photographs and ephemera from the College on the Hill" * The Shrine of the Holy Whapping has been outdoing itself with posts on magnificent church-architecture, but do see the recent entries on the Brothers of Death and other very obscure religious orders, and on ancient Benedictine curse rites * Fr Jas Tucker unearths the order of service for episcopal degradation * City Journal considers the post-Lady Chatterley descent down vulgarization's slippery slope; the deleterious effects of hip-hop, and the sad passing of tailcoats * A Kansas pastor runs with the bulls