"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
If you liked Monty Python's Minister for Running Upstairs Two at a Time, &c, you'll really like Matthew of the Holy Whapping's definitive list of papal nicknames. Among my favorites are Urban (VIII) the Guy Who Put Bees Everywhere, and Innocent (X) the Large Two-by-Four used to Whap People of Jansenism.
And while at the Whapping, be sure to check out Matthew's church drawings for his architectural thesis.
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My thanks to Richard Waghorne, of Sicilian Notes, himself a gentleman and a scholar, for his kind words. We Scoop Jacksonians must stick together.
He points the way to an interesting new pro-democracy initiative on the Left called the Euston Manifesto. The statement also is given play at Spinning Clio. Less than impressed is Reason's David Weigel, who sums up the idea thus: "We're liberals, but that doesn't mean we wouldn't nuke Iran."
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