So, a during the Carrie Prejean/Prop 8 kerfluffle, I wrote this: “…if you’re going to take off your top for a camera, be prepared (sooner or later) to have to answer for it, both in this world, and the next…You’ll have to answer for it because when you profess yourself a Christian, you choose exile, and you will be held to a different standard, entirely, than the world’s. … In the next world, of course, you’ll have to answer to... Read more
I have to tell you, I was already sick of hearing Michael Jackson referred to, endlessly, by the pop-culture-infatuated press as “an Icon!” Now, the White House is doing it, too. At today’s White House briefing, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said he and President Obama talked this morning about Michael Jackson’s death. “He said to me that obviously Michael Jackson was a spectacular performer and a music icon and I think everybody remembers hearing his songs and watching... Read more
The clever Iranians have figured out that the only way to get the attention of the press today is to do a Michael Jackson Merge, intersecting their story with his. More on the excessively pop-minded press by Francis Beckwith. If we could just get these Iranians freed up, maybe a few of them could teach us how to throw stones and stuff at this absurd rogue congress, before they completely destroy our own country with their fake climate bills that... Read more
Gorgeous. Beautiful voices, beautiful children, beautiful family. How proud their mother must be, and what a testament they are to her own fine parenting! We want our talented children to grow into their gifts and blossom and flourish. But then we see how difficult it is to maintain equilibrium when the world is throwing glories at your feet and demanding that you do for them, be for them. We can look at Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe and even -latterly- Susan... Read more
Pianogirl passed this one along, and what a story! Allen performing w/ Salem United Methodist Singers, early ’70s. Photo:Chester Higgins, Jr. MARGALIT FOX, NY TIMES: Betty Allen, an American mezzo-soprano who transcended a Dickensian girlhood to become an internationally known opera singer and later a prominent voice teacher and arts administrator, died on Monday in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82. … An Ohio native who fell into opera by chance, Ms. Allen was part of the first great wave of... Read more
NOTE:::BLOG ADMINISTRATOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR COMMENTARY CONTENT:::OPINIONS IN COMMENTS SECTION DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE OF ADMIN::: This notice is periodically reposted for general informational purposes. I had my site debugged and in the process the “moderate comments” thingie got flipped on. For the heck of it, I decided to try it out and I’ve decided I like moderating comments; I get to actually read them all, now. For the record, I am not inclined to zap a commenter,... Read more
From Love to be Catholic The bells ring, the cock crows and golden sunlight beams in once more…the birds begin their morning song – all creation comes quite naturally, organically, to morning prayer, to lauds, a prayer of pure praise. The created creatures, all together in instinctive wisdom, take time -before their grooming, their hunting, their feeding- for praise. They sing! It happens with every sunrise, in every time zone. Every day, rain or shine. Creation takes no holiday. After... Read more
Is today Tehran’s Tiananmen Square? People being thrown off of bridges, being slain in the streets. Beating old men in the streets. “Would you help us, could you help us?” None of this is easy to watch, but we mustn’t not look. CNN – a chilling, heartbreaking phone call from a woman in Tehran. “they are killing students with axes, put axes through the hearts…this is horrific, this is genocide, this is…a massacre, this is Hitler, and you people should... Read more
From the Dept. of Everyday He Is On TV: Yesterday’s O-presser was a little interesting. The White House seems to be doing what I predicted the other day; they’re suggesting that the so-so Cairo speech was the impetus for the popular uprising in Iran. Funny how that worked out. When the president finally figured out what was the right side to be on, then it was the side he’d always vociferously been on, and in fact, he caused the whole... Read more
Got a fever-swollen glands-burning eyes-abject misery thing going on over here. Think taking the day off is in order. See you later. Read more
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