:::WARNING::: Explicit video; can be very upsetting to watch. You’re warned. Doubtless many of you have seen this ugly video out of Chicago. Apparently the attack happened last April, but the video is going viral, now. It is shocking, and depressing; in a display of callous disregard for the dignity of another human person, and of his own complete lack of self-respect (not self-esteem, mind you, but self-respect) a young man punches an older man to the ground and then... Read more
My spam filter currently has 900 spams, and counting, and the situation can’t be rectified until Monday. Meanwhile, this weekend is work-packed for me and I’m way too busy this weekend to keep fishing through new spam to find legitimate comments, so I am closing comments through Sunday, and perhaps Monday, depending on whether I get everything done. Besides, the comboxes are routinely unpleasant these days and I’m kind of sick of that. There is a whole combox merry-go-round of... Read more
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I agree with Michael Barone, in his defense of the “pampered Puppeteer”: Conservative bloggers and commenters have been making fun of [Joe] Therrien, who quit his job as a drama teacher in New York City public schools to get a Master of Fine Arts in puppetry at the University of Connecticut. Now he’s saddled with $35,000 in student loans and unable to find a puppetry job. So he’s substitute teaching at half his former pay and is a member of... Read more
Two hours into the day someone sent this my way and I needed it, badly. Laughter is not just good medicine. Sometimes having the opportunity to laugh segues into a prayer of thanksgiving: Thank you, God, for the interruption to a hectic day, and the cleansing effect of a laugh. Thank you God that I can hear and see this, in order to so fully enjoy it. Thank you that my lungs work, so I can bark out “HA! That’s... Read more
Just received word that Kitty will be released from hospital today, sent home with a picline to remain on antibiotics for another three weeks. She made a dramatic turnaround over the weekend, and I am completely convinced it was due to the prayers so many of you offered for her, so generously. Please accept our heartful thanks for being so selfless. This is a very glad day! She wants to go to class this week, as she has missed so... Read more
When I saw the headline, I assumed it was from the Onion News Network. Obama Couldn’t Wait; His New Christmas Tree Tax: President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees . . . the Secretary of Agriculture will appoint a Christmas Tree Promotion Board. The purpose of the Board is to run... Read more
Was chatting with some friends last night, and one was mildly annoyed with me for being underwhelmed with Herman Cain’s presser, today. I thought it was too much talking in third-person, which suggested Cain’s need to put distance between himself and what’s he’s experiencing; too much dancing and not enough punch-throwing. While I still rather like Cain (he’s an original, at least), I can’t help thinking that he failed to take advantage of a remarkable opportunity to express the frustrations... Read more
“Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don’t want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair” ― Richard John Neuhaus, The Best of the Public Square Shortly after I wrote this column discussing... Read more
In our house, we have carpeting only in the family room and the kid’s bedrooms. And my husband favors berber carpeting, so the stuff is not a nice warm, thick pile. The rest of the house is either tile or hardwood. Someday, we’re going to be able to afford renovating the 40 year old kitchen and master baths — and when we do, I’m demanding ambient heating in the floors. But for now, I just have to deal, and sitting... Read more
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