Monthly Archives: March 2014

Is Bridget Kelly a Femme Fatale?

Christie’s Bridgegate scandal is beginning to look like “The Maltese Falcon.”

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The Opening of Eyes Long Closed

A Salman Rushdie short story and a David Whyte poem lead to insights into the story of Jesus and the blind man.

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Bat Waits for Ball to Mate

The start of the baseball season calls for this fine May Swenson poem.

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Rumsfeld through the Looking Glass

Interviewing Donald Rumsfeld is like entering Alice’s looking glass world.

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Whither Flight MH370? Shangri-La?

The disappearance of MH370 momentarily led me to fantasize that the passengers had ended up in Shangri La.

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Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships

Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.

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Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)

A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.

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Female Freedom Drives Right Crazy

Euripides “The Bacchae” well describes rightwing legislators obsessed with abortion.

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Chaucer’s Riff on the Woman at the Well

Seen in the light of the Samaritan woman at the well, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is one of Christ’s messengers.

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