Dolly Parton, like other country singers, is self-deprecating enough to allow herself to be turned into a caricature. But Dolly is a great artist. She is a master of those “ancient tones” that come out of mountain music, and she can also bring those same
Petty Officer Mike Monsoor, a Navy SEAL, who died in action in Iraq, is receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor. This is what he did: Monsoor and a group of SEAL snipers took up position on a residential rooftop as part of an operation to
This festival of foolishness has an obscure origin. Since the new year used to be counted from the end of March, some scholars think that the day came when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1582, which changed New Year’s Day to January 1. Some
I see no reason why Hillary Clinton should bow out of the Democratic race in favor of Barack Obama. Let the people vote. Let the superdelegates conspire in their smoke-free rooms. But the latest fantasy in the Democratic party is that the convention is all
A British newspaper has a frontpage story proclaiming, with some glee, that the United States has entered a new Great Depression. This is a silly exaggeration, it seems to me. (The paper bases its conclusion on a small uptick of the number of Americans on
I caught the chef Gordon Ramsey on my new favorite show, BBC’s comedy car show “Top Gear,” and since he could drive really fast, I decided to watch his show Hell’s Kitchen. This is a sort of American Idol of cookery, only the sole judge
A Saudi prince is planning on building a skyscraper that will be a mile high, twice the height of the tallest buildings today. I wonder how big the Tower of Babel was going to be.
Now Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons: The New Conseervative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots, takes up the cause of Issues, Etc. It’s rather surprising to many of us how this seemingly internecine controversy within the LCMS has attracted such attention from outside our
when hope springs eternal in the human breast, as everyone’s team begins in first place. I stayed up late watching the Washington Nationals in their new stadium play the Atlanta Braves. It was a good game that the Nats won in the last inning when
I am glad to see that one of my alma maters, Kansas, is in the Final Four. You may notice that I say little about basketball in this blog. One reason is that whenever I watch basketball my team, no matter how highly favored, loses.
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