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Clowns & Harlots: My Missionary Position

Our niece and a group from her church were going to Bangkok to bring the good news. Since they don’t speak Thai, they were going to use other methods— Christian Lite Rock, mime and Amy Grant tapes. Weapons of mass destruction! by Christopher Corbett Baltimore — (TFN): Hardly a day passes that I don’t get mail asking [...]

Tim Russert: Written on water

I am sure Tim Russert was a fine fellow, father, husband, son, etc. But he was in the end not as significant as his sendoff implies. Read more

Clowns and Harlots: Village People

by Christopher Corbett Baltimore — (TFN): One of the things I’ve been recalling as I struggle along with the never-ending Democratic presidential primary was one of Hillary Clinton’s first bromides – “It Takes A Village.” Remember that? The answer for a Trivial Pursuit question of the future, I feel certain. More than a decade ago, as the [...]

Wal-Mart: And the Lord said, “How May I Help You?”

Baltimore — (TFN): I do not have a deeply spiritual life but sometimes I begin to wonder if there might not indeed be a deity and if the hand of the Almighty might not move on occasion across the land smiting the wicked. I believe that we have seen this of late in the case [...]

William F. Buckley Jr.: Man and Showman

When he came on the scene in the 1950s, the conservative in America was not far removed from the swamp and the lynch mob. Fire-breathing Christians roamed the land. The earth was, indeed, flat. Here be dragons. Buckley made the yahoo and the simpleton swell with pride. Half a century later the conservative movement is [...]

Clowns and Harlots: Best foot forward

by Christopher Corbett  Baltimore — (TFN): The American Podiatric Medical Association says that the demand for foot doctors is about to surge over the next six years.  This came as quite a surprise to me as I can’t say that I keep up with the noble science of foot doctoring.  But I read the alarm they [...]

Christopher Corbett’s Clowns & Harlots: A Zoo Story

“I think the country would be best served if the zoos were closed. Shut them all down. They are expensive, archaic and – no pun intended – bestial. They speak to a time when man was even more primitive than he is today (if such a thing is possible).” — Christopher Corbett By Christopher Corbett, [...]

American Life: Season’s Greetings

"The Christmas letter is a parvenu's marathon of boorish boasting, shameless name-dropping, wild exaggeration, social climbing, fabrication, falsification, and spin doctoring." — Christopher Corbett by Christopher Corbett Baltimore — (TFN): You really know that the season of counting your blessings has arrived when the first Christmas letter lands in your mailbox. These annual missives once were [...]

American Life: A lot like Christmas

"People who you see everyday do not send you Christmas letters.  Largely because such missives are a tissue of half-truths, wild embellishments, outright lies, falsehood and fabrications. (A bit like the story of Christmas, now that I think about it.)" — Christopher Corbett by Christopher Corbett Baltimore — (TFN): The old song says “it’s beginning to [...]

American Media: Putting the “King” into Larry King Live

“Larry King is the master of infotainment. He is the Walter Cronkite of infotainment. And that is a pretty scary thought. He looks old. He looks like a mortician does his makeup. Hell, the man has been on the air for more than half a century and been married seven times! But the man still [...]

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