GEOFFREY CHAUCER HATH A BLOG. Even funnier than I expected. Via Angevin2. Read more
GEOFFREY CHAUCER HATH A BLOG. Even funnier than I expected. Via Angevin2. Read more
“Who knew some Danish comics would start WWIII? I always assumed it would be Cathy.” and on that note, here’s your blogwatch. It’s small. A US unit in Iraq garners praise. (via Andrew Sullivan) Confessions of a Wayward Catholic: When I was visiting Westfield Monastery, I told Sister that prostitution is a lot like an addiction. And like many addictions, the struggle to not slide back into that addiction when things in life get rough is an on-going battle. Even... Read more
WHO IS IN GUANTANAMO AND WHY? National Journal must-read, via Andrew Sullivan. Oh, and while we’re here: Who was in Abu Ghraib and why? One fellow, he was making the rounds. He came to us and said, yeah, he knew this cell, that he fingered about 20 people that we had at Abu Ghraib there. And as time went on, and we were talking to people that were in there, not because of him but for some other reason, but... Read more
SIX REASONS TO KILL FARM SUBSIDIES AND TRADE BARRIERS: An excellent primer for those new to the issue, a good reminder of Why We Fight for those who have long opposed subsidies. Via Hit & Run and SRD. Read more
THROUGH A MAILBAG DARKLY: Various responses to my post on The Man in the High Castle. I should have made it clear, in the original post, that the novel-within-a-novel (The Grasshopper Lies Heavy) isn’t set in our world, but in yet another alternate reality. I conflated the Grasshopper world with our own world, which two of the characters see in visions/apprehensions. I conflated the two in part because I couldn’t think of anything interesting to say about the differences between... Read more
AND TO THINK–BACK IN 1996, PETER KREEFT WAS PUSHING THE “ECUMENICAL JIHAD“: What a difference a day makes. Haven’t posted about the “intoonfadeh” because I didn’t have much useful to say. Here’s a roundup of things that have interested me, in case you care. Anthony Esolen, at Mere Comments, with what may ultimately be the most insightful comment on the whole mess: Some years ago, after teaching a few classes on what happened to the works of the Islamic heretics... Read more
Blogwatch, where everybody goes aroundsniffing televisinoor taking footballino… Well, here I am again. (And I learned that the summer camp in Wisconsin was not, technically, Communist. Merely medium-rare….) Camassia has a neat post on Revelations as cartoon. I absolutely loved, and have recommended to a lot of people, Scott Hahn’s Lamb’s Supper, which maps Revelations onto the Mass. It suffers from the usual pop-apologetics cheesiness (please be patient with the puns), but the content is excellent. Be sure to check... Read more
Why do people keep asking Miss Manners what to say, in a social situation, when they are offered drugs? What ever happened to “Yes, please” and “No, thank you”?–Judith Martin, Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior (Freshly Updated) Read more
AWAY MESSAGE: Unexpected travel until Sunday. If I owe you email, I will try to reply on Sunday or Monday. Thanks. Read more
“WHO’S THERE?”: Yeah, I find Jenny Davidson’s comments on this list of the “best first lines of novels” more interesting than the list itself. (Both links via About Last Night.) Some thoughts: 1. You really have only three options for first sentences: in medias res, powerful description of setting, and self-conscious acknowledgment of the telling of the tale. You’ll hear, sometimes, about opening with a strong character; but as far as I can tell, that kind of opening really becomes... Read more
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