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Botoxing Beauty

Botoxing Beauty

💡This "non-story" appeared yesterday at Catholic365. Practical problems require darker powers. The British writer G.K. Chesterton made that observation a hundred years ago, noting that people have always a "secret and perverse feeling that the darker powers would really do things." A corollary idea came

Jeremy Clarke: A Great Reader

Jeremy Clarke: A Great Reader

It's arguably the most popular column in Britain's oldest newspaper. The "Low Life" column of The Spectator has entertained readers since 1975, when Jeffrey Bernard provided readers with, to quote Johnathan Meades, "a suicide note in weekly installments." After Bernard's

Celebrate the New Year in Edinburgh

Celebrate the New Year in Edinburgh

Scomo collapsed from a heart attack near the new commercial center that he detested. Hurried and busy pedestrians left him there, figuring he was a drunken tramp, until a feeble-minded woman knelt to care for him and discovered he was dead. That's how the writer George Scott-Moncrieff died

Introducing the Non-Story

Introducing the Non-Story

I've been noticing a new type of Internet article: Sites making podcast episodes into news stories. The gimmick's approach: A flashy "news-like" headline, followed by a story about the podcast's content, sprinkled with quotes, which give it the feel of a journalist

Magician Affects Audience Even After the Show

Magician Affects Audience Even After the Show