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I'm about one third of the way through the Inferno. I have a translation which uses Shakespearean-type English, so it’s a little slow going. But that was the free version on Kindle, and at least I know what’s going on from the Course (and I know who the people he’s talking about from the course as well). In the course they say once you finish reading the Divine Comedy, you’re ready to read it. I think the professors were right.

I’m not a huge fan, but my kids really enjoy them. The Action Bible, To Kill a Mockingbird, God’s Dog, The Iliad, and The Odyssey are favorites around the Lutz household.

I saw this article below, and thought of this thread, though it might be better suited for SOCN. I don’t want to talk about whether the article is correct in its assertions (at least not outside of SOCN), but I will point out that a lot of new media is flourishing, and it is doing so because of the internet and despite efforts to kill it. The internet doesn’t explain the fall of SI. Why I'm Canceling My SI Subscription ANDREW KLAVAN | 12:44 PM ON FEBRUARY 03, 2013 I am going to let my subscription to Sports Illustrated lapse when it runs out this year. I hope lots of other people will do the same. Like too many other publications, the magazine has become dishonest, dishonorable and even occasionally despicable in its conformist, lockstep left-wing bias. Republican politicians and conservative positions are routinely insulted in articles having nothing to do with either. Yawn-inducing left wing predictability is brought to the discussion of every issue. No SI writer is allowed to disagree with leftism ever. Despite its great photographs and occasionally good athlete profiles, the magazine has remade itself into crap in the name of political conformity. For me, the Super Bowl issue with its smarmy and poorly reported article on religion in football was the last straw. The article was not an offense to God, it was an offense to journalism. Mark Oppenheimer, a left wing anti-religion writer for the left wing New York Times, among other left wing venues, does the left wing hit job on football players of faith. Not surprisingly, he is also the author of a hagiography of the Christian-bashing gay bully Dan Savage. (This blog has always supported gays and gay rights, but to my mind, Savage has no more place in serious debate than the Westboro Baptist gang.) I could go through Oppenheimer’s lousy article “In the Fields of the Lord,” graph by graph to point out the unsupported conclusions, innuendoes, slanted use of quotes and flat-out untruths that would be unacceptable in any magazine attempting to report fairly, but I’d rather spend my time doing something more interesting, like twiddling my thumbs. But here’s an example, chosen almost at random: Really? So 50 years ago — which would be 1963 — a cozy relationship between religion and football would’ve been “absurd,” but in the 1950s, more than sixty years ago, that began to change. Football used to be more about wild man Joe Namath, who played between ’65 and ’77, than pious Roger Staubach, who played roughly between ’69 and ’79.Uh, who says so? What made Namath more representative of football than Staubach? That he got more headlines? That says something about journalism, but not about religion. Sport was pagan? In what world? Gale Sayers’? Johnny Unitas’? Bear Bryant’s? Hogwash. Okay, maybe in this example Oppenheimer’s writing is just sloppy, shoddy, unedited, stupid and unsupported, but the rest of the piece really is sinister. Organized prayer is made to sound like a conspiracy. Statements like “Football corrupts its fans” are thrown out without any proof whatsoever. And then there’s the fourth rate theology: “The Bible is clear that [God] preferred the loser.” Mr. Oppenheimer has a PHD in American religious history so really, he might want to read the Bible sometime. Well, I could go on, but why bother? I’ve chronicled SI’s Lord-o-phobia before. And Oppenheimer is entitled to his shallow opinion. My point is only that it’s not journalism, or interesting, or even vaguely worth reading. I would love to read a well-reported, balanced article about the problems of mixing faith and sports as I would be interested in intelligent debate about Title IX and whether the damage it does to boys’ sports outweighs whatever good it does, if any, for girls. But you will never find that in SI today. All you get here are leftists telling leftists how to think leftily about leftism. Which is a waste of everyone’s time. Especially when what you’re trying to do is find out about your favorite sport. Screw em. Sports Illustrated officially stinks now. Cancel my subscription.

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Red Barchetta Far Cry

I started a Great Courses lesson on Dante's Divine Comedy. So far, so good.

He also played Frodo in the BBC radio-version of Lord of the Rings! Rhyta is right...he had a great career.

Red Barchetta Middletown Dreams

Red Barchetta Manhattan Project

Red Barchetta Lessons

Last year I got a fancy hardcover with these 3 books in on binding, but it is a bit too unwieldy. You make me regret my decision even more.

Red Barchetta Force One

Red Barchetta The Pass

'I Just Don't Know Where We Went Wrong,' Contemplates Sports Illustrated Executive In Front Of Framed Covers Of Obese, Trans Swimsuit Models https://babylonbee.com/news/i-just-dont-know-where-we-went-wrong-contemplates-sports-illustrated-ceo-in-front-of-framed-obese-swimsuit-issue NEW YORK, NY — After sending a company-wide email to notify all of its staff that they were being laid off, a top executive at iconic publication Sports Illustrated contemplated how things turned out so wrong as he stood in front of framed covers of obese and trans swimsuit models. "I just don't know where things went south," said Jack Weber. "Did we not get woke enough? Should we have featured trans models even earlier? Was the heavy woman we put on the cover not heavy enough? What was it? Maybe we should've given more consideration to plastering the Pride flag on our cover back in June. I was certain we signaled the appropriate amount of virtue for every possible cause and movement out there. It just makes no sense." The magazine, long seen as the authoritative source for all sports news, finally cut loose all its workforce after realizing no one was reading the publication anymore. "This really threw us for a loop," Weber said. "We had so many big things planned to turn things around. A salute to Caitlyn Jenner. Naming Lia Thomas our Female Athlete of the Year. We were even in negotiations to have Lizzo as a special celebrity cover model for the swimsuit issue this year. Now, all of that will be lost." At publishing time, Sports Illustrated announced it had found a new solution to its problems by hiring an entirely new staff that would be the most diverse and inclusive in the history of sports news publications.

I just finished the first book of the Prince Warriors with my son and the first book of the new Thrawn trilogy with both kids (we already read the legends trilogy on Thrawn). On to the next for both series!

Thank you for the recommendation. I am skeptical based on the content and my general distaste for "modern" plays, but I'll put it on my list.

I didn't know much about him, and "An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic" is an introduction to him with selected works and some small amount of commentary. It was very short and high level, but I feel I can at least understand Sextus' form of Skepticism and how he approached epistemology. I didn't find the arguments overly compelling as they seemed too pedantic, or perhaps too semantic, but I could definitely see the utility in the generalized approach. If you're interested in ancient philosophy and want to see if you want to read more, this is a super fast and easy to understand book to test the waters.

I just finished Waiting for Godot. It's basically the same story as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Same themes, same style, same beats. It came earlier so it may be more original, though Rosencrantz does have an interesting conceit, as poorly executed as it was. I can only say that I didn't hate Godot as much as Rosencrantz: at least gave me a few smiles, but it was ultimately almost as shallow and annoying.

I am starting with Sextus Empiricus. Amazon seems to think I will like this based on my purchases of a lot of books on the ancient world.