Charles Brammall The Final CUT Lights up. A woman lies on a gurney. She is fifty years old. Thirty-one years earlier she murdered another young woman. She has spent more than three decades on death row, much of it in… Continue Reading
An Obadiah Slope Column Mushrooming: Obadiah has a confession – he has not been a big fan of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney’s Circular Quay: too many video installations for his curmudgeonly tastes. He has a modified earworm:… Continue Reading
Charles Brammall The Bible, tradition, experience, and our logic seem to be disquietingly clear- we are saved by works alone, and not by works. But then there’s Milano. Ahh… Milano. My wife’s aunt, a retired fashion model, lives in Milano.… Continue Reading
Richard Ostling via Religion Unplugged (ANALYSIS) So claims the cover headline on The Atlantic magazine’s August edition. The subheadline inside asks, “Can Civilization Survive the Postliterate Era?” This 8,700-word blockbuster by staff writer Rose Horowitch (paywalled here) says Americans are… Continue Reading