The Anchoress
Comments have been rather wonky the last week or so. Please see if you can comment, again. Read more
Comments have been rather wonky the last week or so. Please see if you can comment, again. Read more
Apparently Kim Priestap has a daily Reagan quoter, and this was today’s message: The finger-pointers and hand-wringers of today were the policy makers of yesterday, and they gave us economic stagnation and double-digit inflation. There was only one thing fair about their policies: They didn’t discriminate; they made everyone miserable. Ronald Reagan, 1/31/1984 Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Read more
Discussing the S&P downgrade with a young person today, I mentioned this chart, showing the 18 countries with better credit ratings than ours. When he heard that Canada was #3 on the list, he said, “wait…then…how can we joke about Canada anymore? It’s no fun at all if we make fun of you know, their basic Canada-ness, and they can come back with, ‘ayeh, well what aboot yuer credit rating, eyah?‘” Canada, of course, has had its own share of... Read more
A commenter below said it was “not fair” of me to share earworms. Well, now I feel challenged. Truth be told, I’ve had “Pa-pa-pa” from The Magic Flute in my head all day but I don’t like any of the versions up on YouTube. Yesterday I had this one in my head all day: Read more
Don’t you hate it when you wake up with a song in your head, and it just stays there, all day long? So, I woke up with this on in my head. When I was little I thought he was singing “There’s a bathroom on the right…” which was weird, because “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” was also popular back then. It seemed to my young, muddled brain that bathrooms were too much to the fore in our... Read more
I feel like I’ve been remiss in directing your attention Catholic-Portal-page-wide — bad of me, as there’s some good stuff up! Julie Davis is writing about how she was dragged kicking and screaming into John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, and how glad she is to have read it. Now I’m itching to read it, and even more antsy to read this translation and commentary on Genesis Meanwhile, Dr. Pat McNamara, who never fails to bring us something fascinating, takes a... Read more
Some may remember watching a video, in the spring of 2010, in which a young Harvard grad named Mary Anne Marks — of Queens, New York — made an engaging and lively salutatory address in Latin at commencement. Miss Marks, who turned out to be one of Deacon Greg’s parishioners, sat for an interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO before becoming a postulant with the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, trying her vocation... Read more
I am strongly of the opinion that the entire country needs a good stiff drink. Or at least a steadying toddy. CLASSIC IRISH COFFEE * 1 raw sugar cube * 1 1/2 ounces Irish whiskey * 4 ounces coffee * Fresh, unsweetened whipped cream Pour the whiskey over the sugar in a stemmed Irish coffee glass and top with coffee. Ladle one inch of cream on top. Use 1 teaspoon of raw sugar if you don’t have cubes Back in... Read more
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