A life in words
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Folklore by Taylor Swift: well done if melancholy
Folky music has a tendency toward a melancholy, rainy-day vibe which is rather superfluous for me given my temperament, not to mention living in the Pacific Northwest. (Album collaborator Bon Iver’s Wash. captures the western part of the Washington State quite nicely.) So, well done as it is, Taylor Swift’s Folklore is unlikely to be…
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Future Nostalgia by Dua Lipa: bland and divisive
Not my genre but I can respect some pop. This though does almost nothing for me, and worse “Boys Will Be Boys” laid down some “us vs. them” feminism, shaming anyone who dares not absolutely endorse the song, seemingly rejecting the reality that the sexes experience sexual attraction differently, while ignoring the explicit sexualization happening…
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On “Is Genesis History?”
Is Genesis History? is a 2017 feature film which interviews various believing, literalist, Christian PhDs about how they reconcile their belief in a young earth with their scientific training. And by “young earth” they mean literally 6000 or so years old. Given the fact (in my worldview anyhow) that the planet is vastly older than…