A Boat Against the Current

A cultural "omniblog" covering matters literary as well as theatrical, musical, historical, cinematic(al), etc.

Friday, December 12, 2025

TV Quote of the Day (Norm Macdonald, on 20th-Century German Militarism)

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“The entire earth, there’s only one country that frightens me – that’s the country of Germany. I don’t know if you guys are students of hist...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Quote of the Day (Joseph Conrad, on Judging a Man)

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“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”— Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Lord Jim (1900)
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Quote of the Day (Megan Nolan, on Going Home to Ireland for the Holidays)

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“I go home for the holidays in Ireland, and whether you like it or not, going back to the place you were raised and known best in the world ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Quote of the Day (Quinn Slobodian, on the Current ‘Libertarian Eugenics’)

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“All told, the picture is one of a consistent, if unacknowledged, libertarian eugenics. The high-tech fertility market privileges those able...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Verse of the Day (A.M. Juster, on an Ambitious Government Bureaucrat)

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“Your uphill climb will never stop;    scum always rises to the top.” —Poet, translator, and essayist A.M. Juster (pseudonym for Michael J. ...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Spiritual Quote of the Day (St. Gregory of Nazianzus, on God’s Appearance to Humanity)

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“He whom presently you scorn was once transcendent, over even you. He who is presently human was incomposite. He remained what he was; what ...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Photo of the Day: Late Fall, Hackensack River, Bergen County NJ

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I took this image a week ago today, while walking through Johnson Park in Hackensack, NJ. With temperatures dropping, the number of walkers ...
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I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand
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