So, this Buddhist and this Catholic were talking…

January 12, 2005 By

Well, not really. Both were musing and sharing their thoughts. And both had a great deal to say that was worthwhile. And I liked what they had to say so much that I figured I would share it with you. First up The Buddhist. An excerpt: There was once a very enlightened Buddhist yogi who [...]

Filed Under: Misc.

A discourse on the distinction between Mercy and Spam

January 12, 2005 By

Sent to me by a friend, and kind of cute: Wonderful spam! Lovely spam! Eternal spam! by one Michael McGirr. If you’re looking at the clock and needing a little break, here it is. When you think about it, spam is a bit like grace. Nobody knows where it comes from or why. But the [...]

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A Little Cyber-Retreat You Can Call Your Own

January 12, 2005 By

It’s rare for a monastery to get written up in a travel magazine, but The Trappist Monastery of the Holy Spirit has had a lovely write up in Travelgirl Magazine. The pictures are lovely. I wish I could go right now. Enjoy. UPDATE: I have only just gotten to read the ruminations of the two [...]

Filed Under: Benedictine, Catholicism, It's all about me! Me! ME!

Fineman reaches but doesn’t get the brass ring

January 12, 2005 By

I’ll give Howard Fineman points for trying, mostly because I have a soft spot for Fineman. That schoolboy hair, the studious glasses, you just want to bring him home and give him a bowl of soup with crackers. But the man doesn’t get it. Writing about Rathergate, and its effect on the mainstream media, he [...]

Filed Under: Blogs and Blogging, The Fourth Estate

Surplus? Yes. Surplus.

January 12, 2005 By

I saw this a few days ago and wish I’d taken the time to post it; I’da scooped the Blogfather! But I didn’t, so I’ll post it, now and look like the complete lemming that I am! It’s news that no one has managed to splay up in a headline, not even “conservative news sources” [...]

Filed Under: Bush Good

January 12th! Today is the day!

January 12, 2005 By

And now is the time! The place to go and contribute is HERE. Aw, now, don’t be coy, you know I’m talking about Captain’s Quarters World Relief Day. If you really don’t remember, I’ll remind you in the Captain’s own words: CQ readers, fellow bloggers, and friends, We have before us one of the world’s [...]

Filed Under: Blogs and Blogging

I missed all the news, all the big CBS writing!

January 11, 2005 By

Boy, talk about yer bad timing! Unfortunately circumstances over the last few days have been so unusually busy that I simply have had no time to read any news, to read any bloggers, or even to read all of the smart opinions out there regarding the Rathergate Report.Sigh. I did take quick looks and saw [...]

Filed Under: Misc.

Dan Rather’s rather lame response. Courage.

January 11, 2005 By

January 11, 2005TO : All CBS News Colleagues The panel report is part of a process – a necessary process to deal with a difficult issue – at the end of which four good people have lost their jobs. My strongest reaction is one of sadness and concern for those individuals whom I know and [...]

Filed Under: The Fourth Estate

Moonves Memo to CBS – Interesting Reading

January 10, 2005 By

TO: All CBS employeesFROM: Leslie MoonvesDATE: January 10, 2005 On September ­­22, 2004, we asked an Independent Panel to find out what went wrong in the development, preparation and aftermath of the September 8th broadcast, on 60 Minutes Wednesday, concerning President George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard. Today, those findings have [...]

Filed Under: The Fourth Estate

Big bloggers clearly under attack; smaller blogs need to pick up the slack!

January 10, 2005 By

Okay, so my immediate suspicion and paranoia was well-founded. Hosting Matters confirms attacks. They’d no sooner gotten back on track then they went down again. Glenn Reynolds backup site, Instabackup also confirms. Affected are all the big guys – LGF, Powerline, Instapundit, Truth Laid Bear, Tim Blair, and even some smaller guys like Varifrank. (Maybe [...]

Filed Under: Misc.

Washington States’ bad precedent!

January 9, 2005 By

DJ Drummond over at Polipundit.com has a breaking story that should make you quiver in your chair.Washington State Supreme Court Awards Win To SeahawksEstablishing a trend begun in the Gubernatorial Election, the Washington State Supreme Court reversed the apparent results of the on-field play, and awarded a playoff game victory to the Seattle Seahawks over [...]

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Joe Marshall has some good advice for the Democrats

January 9, 2005 By

I rarely link to a left-leaning site, mostly because I seldom peruse them. It’s not that I am prejudiced or disinterested in what the other side has to say; it’s just that so few of them ever say anything new.Too often, when I do check into a lefty site, like Democratic Underground or Daily Kos, [...]

Filed Under: Blogs and Blogging, Dumb Democrat moves

Why aren’t you reading the Dimplomad?

January 8, 2005 By

As they say in Brooklyn, ya gotta read him! Ya gotta! He’s got all da goods, and it’s a beeyootiful thing!” Stuff like this: It’s a pleasure to watch the Australians and our guys work together. They’re interchangeable — except for that, that . . . uh, you know, that cricket thing . . . [...]

Filed Under: Misc.

A Few Cheers for Great People!

January 8, 2005 By

Time constraints preclude individual posts, but I wanted to draw your attention to a couple of really excellent, rather inspiring articles featuring men and women helping out in the tsunami recovery. First up (with a hattip to the Captain is the remarkable story of one Seaman Joviena Kay, who serves aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln [...]

Filed Under: Serving up hot links

The Anchoress’ Bookshelf

January 8, 2005 By

Doubtless you’ve noticed (some of you have, anyway) that the sidebar features some books available at Amazon.com and listed under the deathless header: Anchoress’ Bookshelf. I thought it would be fun (and mildly profitable) to use Amazon to feature certain books that I just really love and want others to read and love, too. I [...]

Filed Under: It's all about me! Me! ME!

Prophets of Perpetual Pessimism

January 8, 2005 By

I like this blurb by Roger Simon wherein he links to this excellent analysis re the propensity of the press, most particularly the ever execrable NY Times, to kill stories that offer hopeful or positive outlooks in favor of the usual dreary, cynical, pessimistic, nihilistic and depressing crap they usually serve up. The analysis is [...]

Filed Under: Faith, The Fourth Estate

Today’s papers and tomorrow’s history books

January 8, 2005 By

The Powerline Guys are correct that the deplorable treatment of Alberto Gonzalez by the Senate Committee, coupled with the thick distortion (by the NY Times and others) of the man, the whole issue of torture and his “connection” to Abu Ghraib, is about sullying the man’s reputation just enough to make his eventual nomination to [...]

Filed Under: Misc.

Ummm, are we SURE the big bloggers aren’t being bothered?

January 8, 2005 By

Maybe I’m paranoid – likely I am – but it just seems really strange that once again all of the big bloggers are down. Instapundit, Captain Ed and a few others… My eyebrows are up is all I’m sayin’… Update: I KNEW it! I knew it was no strange twist of fate that all of [...]

Filed Under: Misc.