NON-CITIZEN MARINES: Good basic article, via Shamed. Read more

IS “EENIE, MEENIE, MINIE, MOE” RACIST?: That’s what these sisters are claiming. They’re suing Southwest Airlines because a flight attendant jokingly said “Eenie, meenie, minie, moe/Pick a seat, we gotta go!” over the intercom in order to get everyone seated before takeoff. One version of the evergreen childhood counting-out rhyme includes a racial slur–but, hello, the version I learned and which I’ve heard chanted by scores of black schoolchildren does not. It’s “Eenie, meenie, minie, moe/Catch a tiger by the... Read more

TOUGH NUNS: “Sister Blandina Segale confronted Billy the Kid – on more than one occasion. In Cripple Creek, Colorado, Mother Mary Baptist Meyers oversaw the care and recovery of an anti-Catholic thug who had tried to blow up her hospital, only to have his own leg blown off. “A statue of Mother Joseph, a Sister of Providence, stands in Statuary Hall in the US Capitol building. Mother Joseph founded countless hospitals and schools in the Northwest, and often played a... Read more

GUESS WHO’S SORT OF BACK? Sort of yay! (More blog will get you more yay.) Read more

SO I RESPONDED to this post about the emotional effects of abortion in Matthew’s comments, but I see there was really no need. Read more

VARGAS LLOSA + SANCHEZ = QUE BUENO! “…classical liberals should take a good hard look at the specifics of any policy being hawked as ‘liberalization’ or ‘deregulation’ or ‘privatization’ before instinctively throwing our support behind it. Since ‘subsidies for powerful interests’ doesn’t play well in public debate as a label for some policy proposal, rent-seekers all too often appropriate our rhetoric in misleading ways to describe their ideas. So you get ‘liberalization’ that means managed trade festooned with rules to... Read more

Where is the Antique glory now become, That whilome wont in women to appeare? Where be the brave achievements doen by some? Where be the battels, where the shield and speare, And all the conquests, which them high did reare, That matter made for famous Poets verse, And boastfull men so oft abasht to heare? Bene they all dead, and laid in dolefull herse? Or doen they only sleep, and shall againe reverse? —TFQ; oddly Spenser doesn’t go on to... Read more

AFTERABORTION.BLOGSPOT.COM: This looks like it will be a very worthwhile site. Read more

SONG OF THE BRAZEN IMMORTAL BIDDING FAREWELL TO HAN: “…Emperor Han Wu Di had a great brass statue of an immortal built and placed high upon a tower to catch pure dew in a great dew-plate. The dew would be used to make potions for the Emperor’s desperate search for the elixir of immortality. Of course, the Emperor dies, time passes, the dynasty changes, but the brazen immortal remains. Eventually, it too is carted away and left, abandoned and ageless,... Read more

A JOB FOR THE OLIGARCH. Read more