The full quote, from The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton, is Then we [two men having just met] had talked for about an hour about politics and God; for men always talk about the most important things to total strangers. It is because in the total stranger we […]
Daily Archives: November 14, 2009
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A colleague of mine each week sends me the Weekly Standard’s “Parody.” For those who are not familiar with TWS it is a very conservative magazine, edited by Bill Kristol. This week the feature is “Not a Parody” and I think is pretty fair. They begin with a quote from […]
I was originally going to link to this article and simply point out how ridiculous it was to suggest that Targum to Chronicles was from the sixth century BCE. Then I started reading more carefully the full article (the “targum” reference came up in a Google alert, hence I knew […]