Patty Loveless, God Will - a clever inversion of the appeal to God, standard in country music. The song uses the term 'God' as a metaphor for an idealized forgiveness that is simply not possible for humans. Top marks to Patty for getting away with calling this metaphorical God a "she"!
Dickey Betts died
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Two obituaries in one day. . . Dicky Betts, one of my favorite rock
guitarists of all time, died in Florida last Thursday. He was 80, and had
been plagued ...
Pope Francis: a skilled abuser of rhetoric
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More on Pope Francis: Of the three Popes that I’ve lived through so far,
Pope Francis is, I’d argue, by far the worst of the bunch (yes, I think
that he’s ...
Thank you
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This is my last post for the Bad Astronomy Blog on Discover Magazine. As of
today – Monday, November 12, 2012 – the blog has a new home at Slate
magazine...
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