Category: everything else
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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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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…
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City water caused my acid reflux; filtering eliminates it
For over a decade I’ve had on-and-off heartburn. But mostly it was no big deal—just one of those discontents of modernity—until a few years ago, when out of nowhere I started to have acid reflux. Not just any acid reflux—it was nasty. I’d wake up with pains shooting through my entire body. Or not be…