to use a humorously loaded label

a rarity here, though--in my defense--without any of the obfuscation which normally accompanies dogmatism

not a quotation, just my characterization of her statement

American Hot Wax

For people interested in being confronted with an intelligent right-wing perspective on race--which implicitly provides most of the scholarly and ideological muscle needed to put forward a non-racist, public-spirited argument in opposition to desegregation efforts--I offer Amy Wax' short, fascinating Race, Wrongs, and Remedies.

Wax' two appearances on Bloggingheads also [both] merit your hour:

opposite Brown University economist Glenn Loury

opposite The American Prospect's Adam Serwer

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12 Angry Men - Lumet - 1957
8½ - Fellini -
Across the Universe - 1+2
Afterlife - Koreeda - 1998
Agent Cody Banks
All Quiet on the Western Front -
Amarcord - Fellini
As You Like It - BBC - 1978
au hasard Balthazar - Bresson - 1966
Bad Day at Black Rock -
BAD live - E=MC²
Bangkok Girl -
Black Narcissus -
Blow Up - Antonioni - 1966
Bottle Rocket - 1+2 - Anderson
Branded to Kill - 1967
Bread and Tulips -
Brick -
Brief Encounter - Lean - 1945
Brother Ali -
Brother Minister The Assassination of Malcolm X
Bye Bye Birdie
Cars
Chuck Close
Citizen Kane - 1+2 - Welles - 1941
Closely Watched Trains - Jirí Menzez - 1966
Cries and Whispers -
Cries and Whispers - Bergman -
Danton - 1+2 - Wajda - 1983
Dead Boys - Live at CBGB - 1977
Diary of a Chambermaid - Buñuel - 1964
Diary of a Country Priest - Bresson - 1951
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above [Audio CD]
Doggystyle - Snoop - audio cd
Doubt - Shanley - 2008
Dr. Mabuse - 1+2 - Lang - 1933
Dr. Zhivago - 1+2+3 -
Dragonball Evolution
Duck Soup -
Elvis Costello - [live concert]
F for Fake - 1+2 - Welles - 1972
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - Hughes - 1986
Fiddler on the Roof - Jewison - 1971
Film Noir Classic Collection - Vol 5
Foreign Correspondent - Hitchcock - 1940
From Here to Eternity - Zinneman - 1953
Going My Way + Holiday Inn
Good Morning - Ohayo - Ozu - 1959
Grand Illusion - Renoir - 1937
Hamlet - Olivier
Happiness -
Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles
Hard Days Night - 1+2
Harlan County USA - Kopple - 1976
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Heart of Gold - 1+2 - Demme - Neil Young
Heavy Petting - 1+2+3 -
Henry V - BBC - 1979
Henry V - Branagh - 1989
Henry V - Olivier - 1944
High Fidelity
Hobson’s Choice -
Hold Steady - [rockumentary] -
Hoop Dreams - James - 1994
Hotel for Dogs
House of Games -
How Green Was My Valley - Llewellyn - 1941
How the West was Won - Ford - 1962
I Love Your Work -
I Was Born, But... - Ozu - 1932
Igor
Iraq in Fragments -
Jacques Brel - AUDIO
James Brown - audio - In a Jungle Groove
Jeanne Dielman - 1+2 - Akerman - 1976
Jetsons - 1:4
Jetsons - 1:4 - [dupe?]
Jules et Jim - 1+2 -
Julie & Julia -
Juliet of the Spirits -
Kagemusha - 1+2 -
King Lear - Welles - 1953 - CBS TV
Kobayashi - 1+2+3+4 -
L’amour l’après-midi - Rohmer - 1972
L’avventura - 1+2 - Antonioni -
L’eclisse - 1+2 - Antonioni -
La boulangère de Monceau - Rohmer - 1963
La Guerre est Fine - 1966
La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV - Rossellini - 1966
Le genou de Claire - Rohmer - 1970
Le million -
Les triplettes de Belleville - Chomet - 2003
Lightnin’ Hopkins -
Love’s Labour’s Lost - BBC -
M - 1+2 - Lang - 1931
Macbeth - RSC - 1979
Macbeth - Shakespeare for Kids
Mad Men - 2:3
Mama Roma - 1+2 - Pasolini - 1962
Mary Poppins - 1+2 -
Max Rules - Adventures of a Super Spy
MDWA - 1+2 - P
Measure for Measure -
Merv Griffin - 1G Hollywood Legends - interviews
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Midnight Cowboy - 1+2 -
Minute Men -
Mishima - 1+2 - A Life in 4 Chapters - Schrader - 1985
Mouchette - Bresson - 1967
Mrs. Miniver - Wyler - 1942
My Architect - Kahn - 2003
My Dinner With Andre - 1+2 -
My Fair Lady - 1+2 -
Myra Breckinridge
Naked Kiss -
Nights of Cabiria - Fellini - 1957
North By Northwest - 1+2 - Hitchcock -
Notorious - Hitchcock
Othello - Olivier - 1965
Paris Je T’Aime -
Passing Fancy - Ozu - 1933
Patti Smith - Dreams of Life - Sebring - 2008
Persepolis -
Pete Seeger - audio - games/activ’s for kids
Peter Pan -
Pickpocket - Bresson - 1959
Pigs and Battleships - Imamura - 1961
Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man’s Chest
Pitfall - Teshigahara - 1962
Placido Domingo - My Greatest Roles
Pokemon - Advanced Battle Vol 9
Pokemon - Absol-ute Disaster
Pokemon - Adv Battle - The Scuffle of Legends
Pokemon - Eight Ain’t Enough
Ponyo
Portrait of Jennie - William Dieterle - 1948
Race to Witch Mountain
Raisin Arizona - Coen Brothers - 1987
Rear Window - 1+2 - Hitchcock - 1954
Rebecca - 1+2 - Hitchcock
Red Desert -
Rembrandt - Korda - 1936
Richard III - 1+2
Richard III - BBC version
Rushmore - Anderson - 1998
Samurai - Miyamoto - 1954
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - 1+2 - Parajanov - 1964
Simpsons - 1:2
Spartacus - 1+2 - Kubrick - 1960
Spellbound - Hitchcock - 1945
Summertime - Lean - 1955
Sunset Boulevard - 1+2 - Wilder - 1950 [1st disk remains blank--and ready to be recorded upon]
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Suspicion - Hitchcock - 1941
That Hamilton Woman - Korda - 1941
That Hamilton Woman - Korda - 1941
The 400 Blows -
The Agronomist - Demme - 2003
The Apartment - Wilder - 1960
The Bad Sleep Well -
The Birds - Hitchcock - 1963
The Boondock Saints -
The Clash - Westway to the World - Letts - 2001
The Color of Pomegranates - Paradjanov - 1968
The Face of Another - Teshigahara - 1966
The Friends of Eddie Coyle - Yates - 1973
The Furies - Mann -
The Gospel According to St. Matthew - Pasolini - 1964
The Graduate - [2 copies?]
The Graduate - 1+2 -
The Great McGinty - Sturges - 1940
The Handmaid’s Tale -
The Hidden Fortress -
The Hit - Frears - 1985
The Human Condition - 1+2 - Kobayashi - 1959
The Juliet Letters - Brodsky Quartet - 1992
The Lady Eve - Sturges - 1941
The Lady Vanishes - 1+2 - Hitchcock -
The Last Picture Show - Bogdanovich - 1971
The Life Aquatic- 1+2 - Anderson -
The Lost Weekend - Wilder - 1945
The Magic Flute - Bergman - 1975
The Office - 2:1
The Office - 2:3
The Office [UK] - 1:1
The Passenger - Antonioni - 1975
The Private Life of Henry VIII - Korda - 1933
The Red Shoes - Powell & Pressburger - 1948
The Royal Tenenbaums - 1+2 - Anderson
The Science of Sleep -
The Sound of Music - Wise - 1965
The Thief of Bagdad - 1+2 - 1940
The Third Man - Reed - 1949
The Winter’s Tale -
The Winter’s Tale - BBC -
This Gun for Hire - Tuttle - 1942
To Catch A Thief - 1+2 - Hitchcock - 1955
Tokyo Drifter - 1966
Tosca - de Bosio - 1976
Touch of Evil - 1+2 - Welles - 1958
Touch of Evil - 1+2 - Welles -
Un chien andalou - Bunuel - 1929
Underdog Vol 1
Variety Lights - Fellini - 1950
Vertigo - Hitchcock - 1+2 -
War Games
Welcome to the Dollhouse
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane - Aldrich - 1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 1+2 -
Where the Wild Things Are
White Heat - Raoul Walsh - 1949
Who are the Debolts? - Korty - 1977
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Nichols - 1966
Written on the Wind -
Year One
Yi Yi
Yojimbo -
You Can’t Take It With You -
Yu-Gi-Oh! -
Žižek! - Taylor - 2005

Dear Gavin,

Our e-mail system crashed for several days from Thursday through Sunday, and I just got your first e-mail last night.

I do monitor comments and don’t publish all of them. It’s my own personal blog, and I figure I’m not running a newspaper. It’s a spot for my homilies, or just sharing things like whats on my mind, as is any blog.

I would just take a little issue with your blog post though. This congregation is anything but spineless. The congregation doesn’t hire and fire clergy; clergy like me are sent to the parish and can be pulled at the discretion of the Archbishop. We can apply to be sent to a parish, and then the Archbishop may send us to that parish, and we can ask for a transfer but must leave after 12 years in a church and go to another church. In Fr. Mike’s case, he voluntarily resigned, and was not fired. He also still is a priest. I haven’t heard from him in quite a while, but let him know he’s got my prayers and support and whenever he feels like contacting me I’m sure he will. Hopefully he’s working through some issues and I know the Archdiocese is giving him support as well, and he’ll remerge in another role to serve our universal Church and Archdiocese.

You also need to take into consideration our job as a priest is different than other jobs; we are more public people. Fr. Mike committed a misdemeanor crime, and I think cops need to patrol areas and set up stings to keep parks safe. Actions have consequences; remember the senator at the airport who got caught in a similar situation quickly lost his position and was shoved out by the party. It should be illegal for anyone to engage in inappropriate behavior in a public place; there are kids and others around who enjoy the park, and I’m glad they set up stings to check this out. I used to jog in that area a lot. I’m pretty sure he simply went before a judge and got a fine, but I’m not sure. He could not very well come back and work in a church environment when that is in the press, so his leaving I think was prudent. No one here pressured him at all; in fact he’s gotten numerous cards and letters which have been sent on to him, and people aren’t spineless at all, but just sad and trying to move forward and also sad for him but hopeful that he gets the help he needs to move forward as a priest and as a man. He helped me quite a bit, and was supportive of my work and I do wish him the best and keep him in my prayers. I think the Archbishop and Archdiocese handled it very well; they were out here that weekend, the staff was there for the people, and the Archdiocese also had someone here to talk to the older school kids and I did that as well. Like I said, I think they are moving on and healing, and the Archdiocese is helping Fr. Mike.

Again, I don’t publish all comments because it’s my own private blog, and you can do the same thing on your blog if you so desire. So I wouldn’t approve yours because then someone would easily find your blog and probably be hurt by seeing their parish described as “spineless,” so I think you can understand. You’re entitled to your opinion as is everyone else, but my blog is for my opinions, not an open forum.

Have a great weekend and thanks for the e-mail,

Fr. Paul